Gay New York: gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940

Part I. Male (Homo)Sexual Practices and Identities in the Early Twentieth Century. Ch. 1.The Bowery as Haven and Spectacle ; Ch. 2. The Fairy as an Intermediate Sex ; Ch. 3. Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood ; Ch. 4. The Forging of Queer Identities and the Emergence of Heterosexuality in Middle-Class Culture

Part II. The Making of the Gay Male World. Ch. 5. Urban Culture and the Policing of the "City of Bachelors" ; Ch. 6. Lots of Friends at the YMCA: Rooming Houses, Cafeterias, and Other Gay Social Centers ; Ch. 7. "Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public": Forging a Gay World in the Streets ; Ch. 8. The Social World of the Baths ; Ch. 9. Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem

Part III. The Politics of Gay Culture. Ch. 10. The Double Life, Camp Culture, and the Making of a Collective Identity ; Ch. 11. "Pansies on Parade": Prohibition and the Spectacle of the Pansy ; Ch. 12. The Exclusion of Homosexuality from the Public Sphere in the 1930s

Epilogue: The Strange Career of the Closet.