Part 1. Scapegoats
Lawbreakers and loonies
America hunts for witches
No army of lovers: toward a homosexual-free military
America protects its youngsters
Part 2. The homophiles
Mattachine
The daughters
Jousts with the four horsemen
Part 3. Revolts before the revolution
Slivers of space and justice
Throwing down the gauntlet
The homosexual American citizen takes the government to court
Part 4. Earthquake: the Stonewall years
The riots
Say it proud, and loud: new gay politics
Less talk and more action: the Gay Activists Alliance
A parallel revolution: lesbian feminists
Part 5. A place at the table
Dressing for dinner
How gays and lesbians stopped being crazies
The culture war in earnest
Part 6. How Anita Bryant advanced gay and lesbian civil rights
Enter, Anita
How to lose a battle
Grappling with defeat
Learning how to win
Part 7. Ashes and phoenixes
Of martyrs and marches
The plague
Family values
Part 8. Demanding to serve
New gays and lesbians versus the old military
Don't ask, don't tell, don't serve
"Get 'Don't ask, don't tell' done!"
Part 9. LGBT American citizens
How lesbians and gays stopped being sex criminals
"The first law in American history that begins the job of protecting LGBT people"
A forty-year war: the struggle for workplace protection
Part 10. "What justification could there possibly be for denying homosexuals the benefits of marriage?"
"The status that everyone understands as the ultimate expression of love and commitment"
Getting it right, and wrong, in the West
The evolution of a president and the country
Epilogue.