Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The History of Homosexuality: a New and Controversial History -- Research in Homosexuality: Methodological Problems -- PART ONE -- A Brief Apogee: The 1920s, A First Homosexual Liberation -- The homosexual - between dandy and militant -- Chapter One -- A Myth is Born: Those Flamboyant Days -- Looking Back: 1869-1919 -- One Scandal after Another -- The Shock of the First World War -- The homosexual, a traitor to the fatherland -- The front as a school in homosexuality -- The war casts open the blinds -- The Homosexual Scene: Subversive Language -- Homosexual Talk: from "Slang" to "Camp" -- Dandies and Flappers: Homosexuals Have Style -- Magical Cities, Mythical Cities: The Geography of Where to Meet -- Berlin, A Homosexual Capital -- The male scene -- The female scene -- Triumph of the amateurs -- London, or the Glamour of Uniforms -- Not much of scene at all -- Pick-ups and prostitutes -- Paris, Montmartre, and Getting Caught -- Dance time -- Night life -- Chapter Two -- Liberation on the Move: The Golden Age of Homosexual Movements -- The German Model: Communitarianism and Militancy -- Magnus Hirschfeld, Prefiguring the Militant Identity -- The Beginnings of the WhK (1897-1914) -- The apogee and decline of the WhK (1919-1933) -- Assessing Magnus Hirschfeld's record -- Adolf Brand and "Der Eigene," An Elite and Aesthetic Homosexuality -- Homosexual Magazines and Popular Organizations -- "Der Deutsche Freundschaftsverband" -- "Der Bund für Menschenrecht" -- Lesbians, at the fringes of the homosexual movement -- The German Model as an Influence on Homosexual Movements -- The World League for Sexual Reform: A Homosexual Internationale? -- A Lackluster Performance on the Part of English Activists -- Edward Carpenter, socialist utopian and homosexual.

"British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology" (BSSP): A timid reformism -- The French Way: Individualism Comes Up Short -- Marcel Proust, Witness of Days Long Past -- André Gide, A Militant Homosexual? -- "Inversion," An Isolated Attempt at a Homosexual Review -- Chapter Three -- An Inversion of Values: The Cult of Homosexuality -- Seduced in the Public Schools -- The Public Schools, Fostering the Cult of Homosexuality -- Ambiguities in the System -- Paradise Lost: The English Model -- Two Generations of Homosexual Intellectuals -- The First Homosexual Generation: Precursors -- Cambridge and the "Apostles" -- Bloomsbury -- The Second Homosexual Generation: The Apogee -- The Succeeding Generation -- Oxford -- Escape to Germany -- PART TWO -- Unacknowledged Fears and Desires: -- Ambiguous Speech and Stereotyped Images -- Homosexuals become commonplace during the inter-war period -- Chapter Four -- Awakening: Working to Construct a Homosexual Identity -- The Medical Model: An Identity Imposed from Outside -- The Doctors Intrude -- Medicine at the "Service" of Homosexuals -- Psychoanalytical Shock -- Being Homosexual: Proclaiming an Identity -- An Early Revelation -- Homosexual Discomfort -- Asserting Oneself -- A Generational Example: Thomas and Klaus Mann -- Defining Oneself as a Lesbian - An Identity under Construction -- The Dominant Model and Alternatives -- Radclyffe Hall -- Natalie Barney and Colette -- Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf -- Individual Answers -- Ignorance -- Assuming an identity -- Self rejection -- The Birth of a Homosexual Community? -- Sharing a Common Culture -- Solidarity and Exclusion -- Index.