Sodomy, effeminacy, identity : mobilizations for same-sexual loves and practices before the Second World War / Gert Hekma -- The homophile movement / Julian Jackson -- Gay liberation and its legacies / Jeffrey Weeks -- AIDS activism from north to global / Christophe Broqua -- Queer movement / Gavin Brown -- LGBT identity and the displacement of sexual liberation : New York City (1969-1986) / Mary Bernstein -- The spatial politics of gay pride parades and festivals : emotional activism / Lynda Johnston and Gordon Waitt -- Lesbians, second-wave feminism and gay liberation / Julie Podmore and Manon Tremblay -- People of color mobilization in LGBT movements in the Netherlands and the United States / Nicholas Boston and Jan Willem Duyvendak -- Inside and outside? : bisexual activism and the LBGTI community / Kristen McLean -- Trans activism and LGB movements : odd bedfellows? / Janneke van der Ros and Joz Motmans -- Political institutions and LGBTQ activism in comparative perspectives / Miriam Smith -- Lesbian and gay rights and the courts / Susan Gluck Mezey -- "Lesbian and gay rights are human rights" : multiple globalizations and LGBTI activism / David Paternotte and Hakan Seckinelgin -- Caught in a web? : the Internet and deterritorialization of LGBT activism / Phillip M. Ayoub and Olga Brzezińska -- Faith and religion / Stephen Hunt -- Neoliberalism, citizenship and activism / Diane Richardson -- Decriminalizing homosexuality : gaining rights through sodomy law reform / Melinda D. Kane -- SM politics, SM communities in the United States / Rostom Mesli and Gayle Rubin -- Same-sex partnership and marriage : the success and cost of transnational activism / Kelly Kollman -- Rainbow families and the state : now policies shape reproductive choices / Nina Eggert and Isabelle Engeli -- Afterword liberating generations : continuities and change in the radical queer western era / Ken Plummer

1. Gay rights
2. Gay people -- Political activity
3. Gay liberation movement