Contents Introduction: An Invisible People Part One: Awakening 1. A Fight at a Bar 2. Los Angeles 3. New York 4. Climbing the System 5. First Stirrings 6. Sisters and Brothers Part Two: A Place at the Table 7. Kameny for Congress 8.

A Voice in the Statehouse 9. The Fifth Column 10. San Francisco: Coming to Power 11. In Our Mothers' Names 12. New Orleans: Fire UpStairs 13. Ordinary People 14. A Question of Sanity 15. Elaine 16.

Minneapolis: The Coat Check 17. Ordinary Things 18. Citizen Goodstein 19. Brothers and Sisters Part Three: The Backlash 20. The Governor of Georgia 21. A Voice in the White House 22. Miami: The Fundamentalists Awake 23. A Very Bad Year 24.

An Uneasy Victory in San Francisco 25. Money in the Hills of Bel Air 26. A Black-Tie Affair 27. California: The Main Event 28. A Friend in City Hall 29. Colliding Forces 30. The Pink Invitation 31. Until the Party Ended Part Four: Out of Anger 32.

After Disco 33. Swept Away 34. Little to Celebrate 35. For the Public Good 36. Cop at the Door 37. Requiem Epilogue Cast of Characters and Interviewees Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index.