1) Gay Life before World War II
 

-- Urbanization

-- 1870-1930: Finding Each Other
 

• Gay Bars

-- German and American Activism
 

2) World War II and the 1950s: Transforming the Gay Community
 

-- Wartime Dislocation and Repression
 

• Targeting Bars

• Sodomy Laws

• McCarthyism

-- Organizing the Gay Community: The Homophile Movement
 

• Mattachine Society

• Daughters of Bilitis

• Ineffectiveness

3) The Sixties: Cultural Change, Civil Rights, and Gains for Gay Rights.

-- Gay Life Goes Public in Literature and Movies

-- Public Visibility and Political Outreach
 

• Gay Pride and Fighting Back

• Gayola and the Tavern Guild

• Turning a Corner: The Council on Religion and the Homosexual

-- Gay Liberation
 

• The Hairpin Drop Heard Round the World: Stonewall (1969)

4) From Bars to Community: Gay Life in the Seventies

-- The Castro

-- Political Triumph: Harvey Milk

-- The Backlash: Anita Bryant, Proposition 6, and Dan White

-- Contradictory Situation

5) AIDS and Beyond

-- Dealing with the Crisis

-- New Government Intrusion

-- Life Goes On

-- Mainstreaming or the End of Community?