Contents : Introduction / by Ed Jackson [p. 1-6] -- Chapter 1: Risks [p. 7] -- Throat-ramming / by Gerald Hannon [p. 8-12] - Dear mom and dad [cartoon] / by Gary Ostrom [p. 11] -- Under the clock / by Michael Riordon [p. 12-13] -- Blessed are the deviates : a post-therapy check-up on my ex-psychiatrist / by Michael Riordon [p. 14-20] -- Coming out ... at seventeen / by Lilith Finkler [p. 20-22] -- The First dance / by Irene Walker [p. 22-24] -- Heroes / by Michael Riordon [p. 24-25] -- Getting off / by Andrew Britton [p. 26-32] -- The Mirror of violence / by Michael Riordon [p. 33-40] -- Exorcising ghosts of friendships past / by Lorna Weir [p. 40-43] -- Chapter 2: Living our lives [p. 45] -- Getting royally fucked by a perfact sissy / by Michael Riordon [p. 46-48] -- Home and mother / by Jane Rule [p. 49-50] -- Fear of cruising / by Jeff Richarson [p. 50-52] -- Faces of sisterhood / by Mariana Valverde [p. 53-54] -- Forgotten fathers / by Michael Lynch [p. 54-63] -- The Worrds [poem] / by Ian Young [p. 63] -- No sorrow, no pity : the gay disabled / by Gerald Hannon [p. 64-72] -- Four short, three long...[cartoon] / by Gary Ostrom [p. 67] -- Neighbourly sentiments / by Ken Popert [p. 72-74] -- Confessions of a lunchroom subversive / by Chris Bearchell [p. 74-76] -- Not the same old place : openly gay in the post office / by Walter Bruno [p. 76-79] -- A Vunerable man / by Michael Riordon [p. 80-81] -- Chapter 3: The Making of the image of the modern homosexual [p. 83] -- Homosexuals and the Third Reich / by James Steakley [p. 84-91] -- Towards 1984 / by Andrew Hodges [p. 91-94] -- It pays to increase your word power / by Michael Riordon [p. 94-96] -- Friends (not lovers) / by Ken Popert [p. 96-98] -- Taking over the house of language / by Mariana Valverde [p. 98-100] -- "Six of One": a review of the Rita Mae Brown novel / by Lorna Weir [p. 100-102] -- Robin Tyler : comic in contradiction / by Val Edwards [p. 103-107] -- "La Cage aux folles" : a review of the film / by Gerald Hannon [p. 107-109] -- "Hosanna" : a review of Michel Tremblay's p[lay / by David Mole [p. 109-110] -- Trading on secrets : the making of a TV documentary / by Chris Bearchell [p. 111-121] -- I spend eight hours ... [cartoon] / by Gary Ostrom [p. 119] -- Bad exposure : a review of "The Gay picturebook" / by Gordon Montador [p. 122-125] -- Letters / by Jane Rule [p. 125-126] -- Dreams deferred : the early American homophile movement / by John D'Emilio [p. 127-138] -- Dangers of the minority game / by Ken Popert [p. 138-139] -- The Day the homos disappeared : a cautionary tale / by Robin Hardy [p. 140-143] --Chapter 4: Advice on consent and other unfinished [p.145] -- Advice on consent / by the editors [p. 146-147] -- Men loving boys loving men / by Gerald Hannon [p. 147-159] -- Paying the price : some letters to the editor [p. 159-162] -- Teaching sexuality / by Jane Rule [p. 162-165] -- Another look / by Chris Bearchell, Rick Bébout and Alexander Wilson [p. 166-174] -- Working together / by the editors [p. 175-176] -- We need our own banner / by Marie Robinson [p. 177-178] -- Divided we stand / by Andrew Hodges [p. 178-184] -- Gay men and lesbians : can work together / by Chris Bearchell [p. 184-186] -- Confessions of a lesbian gay liberationist / by Beatrice Baker [p. 186-188] -- Gay men's feminist mistakes / by Brian Mossop [p. 188-191] -- It's no fun... [cartoon] / by Gary Ostrom [p. 191] -- Everyfaggot's dyke, everydyke's faggot / by Chris Bearchell [p. 192-193] -- Why I write for the "Body Politic" / by Jane Rule [p. 194-195] -- Agree to differ : a letter / by Eve Zaremba [p. 195-196] -- "Cruising" and censorship / by the editors [p. 196] -- Sex, death and free speech : the fight to stop Friedkin's "Cruising" / by Scott Tucker [p. 197-206] -- Middle-class alarm : a letter / by Vito Russo [p. 207-208] -- Help them see "Cruising" / by Ken Popert [p. 208-210] -- Dangerous notions : a letter / by Scott Tucker [p. 210-211] -- Whose freedom and whose press? / by Leo Casey and Gary Kinsman [p. 211-213] -- Chapter 5: In the courts, on the hustings, in the streets [p. 215] -- The Seventies / by the editors] [p. 216] -- We demand / by the August 28th Gay Day Committee [p. 217-220] -- A Stratedgy for gay liberation / by Brian Waite [p. 221-223] -- Victories and defeats : a gay and lesbian chronology, 1964-1982 / by the editors [p. 234-243] -- Police raid "The Body Politic" office [Cartoon] / by Paul Aboud [p. 235] -- The End of the "human rights decade" / by Michael Lynch [p. 244-247] -- Into the eighties / by the editors [p. 247] -- Out in the Basque country / by Tim McCaskill [p. 248-258] -- Close but not enough : the 1980 Toronto municipal election / by Ed Jackson [p. 258-272] -- Raids, rage and bawdyhouses / by Gerald Hannon [p. 273-294] -- [Cartoons] /by Gary Ostrom [p. 295-300] -- Contributors profiles [p. 301-304] -- Index [p. 305-312]
