Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: An antidote to hemlock / Louie Crew
  • 1. General academic issues: Before emancipation: gay persons as viewed by chairpersons in English / Louie Crew
  • Gaiety and the laity: excesses of professionalism / Edgar Z. Friedenberg
  • Gay students / J. Lee Lehman
  • 2. History: Gay genocide from Leviticus to Hitler / Louis Crompton
  • The annotated Burton / Stephen W. Foster
  • 3. Library science: Combatting the lies in the library / Barbara Gittings
  • 4. Linguistics: Lesbian separatism: the linguistic and social sources of separatist politics / Julia P. Stanley
  • 5. Literature: A. Criticism: Homotextuality: a proposal / Jacob Stockinger
  • B. General: Teaching gay literature in San Francisco / James E. Brogan
  • C. American literature: Homosexuality in the crucial decade: three novelists' views [Mailer, Merrick, Vidal]
  • The life below the life [Richard Howell] / Michael Lynch
  • The case for Casque [Hart Crane] / Hunce Voelcker
  • D. English literature: Sons and lovers: three English portraits [Isherwood's Kathleen and Frank; Ackerley's My father and myself; Nicolson's Portrait of a marriage]
  • E. French literature: Male homosexuality and lesbianism in the works of Proust and Gide / Karla Jay
  • F. German literature: Homosexual love in four poems by Rilke / Bernhard Frank
  • 6. Philosophy: Philosophies of homophobia and homophilia / Laurence J. Rosán
  • Aesthetic and sexual relativity / James W.F. Somerville
  • 7. Psychology: Conflicts over rights and needs in homosexual relationships / John P. De Cecco and Michael Shively
  • Towards a gay psychology / Mark Freedman
  • 8. Religion and theology: Gay people and moral theology / Ellen M. Barrett
  • Gayness: a radical Christian approach / Ara Dostourian
  • Christopher Isherwood and the religious quest / Clinton R. Jones
  • Evils and God -from a "process perspective" / Norman Pittenger
  • 9. Science: Towards a gay analysis of science and education / Stephen Risch
  • 10. Sociology and political science: Coming out: towards a social analysis / John Kyper
  • Meeting males by mail / John A. Lee.