Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The History of Homosexuality: a New and Controversial History -- Research in Homosexuality: Methodological Problems -- PART ONE -- Chapter One -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Chapter Four -- 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 -- Chapter Five -- The Weight of Prejudices -- Guardians of Traditional Morals -- The Churches -- The "public authorities" -- The press -- Greater Tolerance? -- Sensitive Topics -- It's the feminists' fault -- Protecting young people -- The stranger among us -- Homosexuality and the Winds of Fashion -- Popular Fears and Fantasies: The Homosexual and the Lesbian in Literature -- Homosexual and Lesbian Archetypes -- A Raft of Novels -- The Homosexual as a Symbol of Modernity -- A Vague Homoeroticism: Youth and Androgyny -- Chapter Six -- Homosexuals in the Political Arena -- The Fantasy of the Working-Class Lover -- Homosexual as Leftist Activists -- Pacifism -- Communism and the far left -- A Fascistic Fascination?.

An élitist and aristocratic homosexuality -- Erotic and aesthetic appeal -- Misunderstanding or Betrayal? The Left Shifts Between Puritanism and Opportunism -- The Soviet Illusion -- Support from the Anarchists -- The Confused Line of the German Left -- The SPD and the KPD, allies of the homosexual movements -- Homosexuality at the heart of party politics -- Genealogy of a Crime: Homosexuality as a Fascistic Perversion -- The Myth of the "Männerbund" -- Hysterical Homophobia -- Pragmatism and Scapegoats -- Racism and sexuality -- The Röhm case -- PART THREE -- Chapter Seven -- Reactionary England (1919-1939) -- The Legal Situation -- The Organization of Repression -- Changes in sentencing for homosexuality -- Police methods -- Case studies -- The Conference on homosexual crimes of May 7, 1931 -- The Obsession with Lesbians: The Temptation to Repress -- The draft legislation of 1921 -- The trial of Radclyffe Hall -- "Extraordinary Women" -- Weimar Germany, Permissiveness and Repression (1919-1933) -- The Legal Context -- Institutional Waffling: Draft Laws Come and Go -- Real Repression -- Changes in sentencing -- The police play disturbing games -- Case studies -- Censorship -- French Homosexuals - Out on Probation (1919-1939) -- Was France the Land of Homosexual Tolerance? -- Homosexuality Unknown to French Law -- The judges are interested -- Censorship -- Homosexuals under Surveillance -- The Homosexual as an ordinary delinquent -- Homosexuality and prostitution: military surveillance -- Chapter Eight -- 1933-1935: Destruction of the German Model -- You're Fired -- First Victims: "Corrupters of Youth" and Male Prostitutes -- Beefing Up the Legislation -- The new 175 -- Lesbians -- 1935-1939: The Organization of the Anti-Homosexual Terror -- Stronger Repression -- Centralization and rationalization of the campaign against homosexuality.

Tighter sentencing (1935-1939) -- Practices of the police and the judiciary -- Some Specific Cases -- Homosexuality in the "Hitlerjugend" and the SS -- Homosexuality in the Wehrmacht -- Homosexuality as a way of eliminating opponents -- "Rehabilitation" or "Eradication"? -- Elimination by Labor -- "Curing" and castrating -- The Late 1930s: French and English Homosexuals in a Turmoil -- Homosexuality Goes Out of Fashion -- Depopulation -- Decadence and decline -- Turning Inward -- German Exiles -- Postface -- Conclusion -- National Interactions, Convergences and Distinctions -- Questions: The Nature and Style of Homosexuality in the Inter-war Period -- Appendix I. Statistics -- England: Changes in Homosexual Crimes between 1919 and 1940 -- England, 1919 -- England, 1933 -- England, 1937 -- Germany: Changes in Homosexual Crimes between 1919 and 1939 -- Appendix II. Songs -- The "Lila Lied," Germany's Lesbian Anthem -- France's "Lavender Song, " La "Chanson mauve" -- Appendix III. German Legislation on Homosexuality -- 175 of the Criminal Law code -- Draft Legislation of 1909 -- Alternative Draft Legislation of 1911 -- Draft Legislation of the Commission of 1913 -- Draft Legislation of 1919 -- Draft Legislation of 1925 (The Reichsrat version) -- Government bill of 1927 (Reichstag version) -- Draft Legislation of 1933 -- Law of 1935 -- Appendix IV. Dr. Carl Vaernet's Experiments at Buchenwald (1944) -- Annotated Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- A. Archives -- B. Print Sources -- C. Testimonies -- Secondary Sources -- A. France, England and Germany in the Twenties and Thirties: reference works -- B. History of Homosexuality -- C. Studies on intellectuals and Prominent Homosexuals of the Period -- Index.