Introduction: Long before Stonewall / Thomas A. Foster
Part I Colonial native Americas
Warfare, homosexuality, and gender status among American Indian men in the southwest / Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-women: Gender crossing and same-sex relations in eighteenth-century northeastern Indian culture / Gunlög Fur
"Abominable sin" in colonial New Mexico: Spanish and Pueblo perceptions of same-sex sexuality / Tracy Brown
Part II Colonial British America
"The cry of Sodom": Discourse, intercourse, and desire in colonial New England / Richard Godbeer
Border crossings: The queer erotics of Quakerism in seventeenth-century New England / Anne G. Myles
Hermaphrodites and "same-sex" sex in early America / Elizabeth Reis
Mapping an Atlantic sexual culture: Homoeroticism in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Clare A. Lyons
Part III Romantic bonds in the early republic
An excerpt from Surpassing the Love of Men / Lillian Faderman
Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio: An early American romance / Caleb Crain
The Swan of Litchfield: Sarah Pierce and the lesbian landscape poem / Lisa L. Moore
Part IV Reformers in the new nation
Sexual desire, crime, and punishment in the early republic / Mark E. Kann
The black body erotic and the republican body politic, 1790-1820 / John Saillant
What's sex got to do with it? marriage versus circulation in The Pennsylvania Magazine, 1775-1776 / Laura Mandell
In a French position: Radical pornography and homoerotic society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the secret witness / Stephen Shapiro
Afterword / John D'Emilio.
Introduction : long before Stonewall / Thomas A. Foster
Warfare, homosexuality, and gender status among American Indian men in the southwest / Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-women : gender crossing and same-sex relations in eighteenth-century northeastern Indian culture / Gunlög Fur
"Abominable sin" in colonial New Mexico : Spanish and Pueblo perceptions of same-sex sexuality / Tracy Brown
"The cry of Sodom" : discourse, intercourse, and desire in colonial New England / Richard Godbeer
Border crossings : the queer erotics of Quakerism in seventeenth-century New England / Anne G. Myles
Hermaphrodites and "same-sex" sex in early America / Elizabeth Reis
Mapping an Atlantic sexual culture : homoeroticism in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Clare A. Lyons
An excerpt from Surpassing the love of men / Lillian Faderman
Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio : an early American romance / Caleb Crain
The Swan of Litchfield : Sarah Pierce and the lesbian landscape poem / Lisa L. Moore
Sexual desire, crime, and punishment in the early republic / Mark E. Kann
The black body erotic and the republican body politic, 1790-1820 / John Saillant
What's sex got to do with it? marriage versus circulation in The Pennsylvania Magazine, 1775-1776 / Laura Mandell
In a French position : radical pornography and homoerotic society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the secret witness / Stephen Shapiro
Afterword / John D'Emilio.
