Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- PART I: ON WRITING -- The Practice of Writing -- The Canadian Climate -- Before and After Sexual Politics -- Seventh Waves -- Inside the Easter Egg -- Notes on Autobiography -- Morality in Literature -- Lesbian and Writer -- For "Writer/Publisher Relationships: Feminist and Traditional -- For the Critic of What Isn't There -- Staking Out the Territory -- PART II: WRITING FOR THE GAY PRESS -- Why I Write for The Body Politic -- Extended Care -- Hindsight -- Free to Live -- Walking Canes -- The Last to Know -- Border Crossings -- The Socially Handicapped -- The Myth of Genital Jealousy -- The Question of Children -- Integration -- Drag -- Asking for the Moon -- Home and Mother -- Lesbian Leadership -- The Affirmative Action Novel -- Straights, Come Out -- An Act of God -- Censorship -- Sexual Infancy -- On a Moral Education -- Rule Making -- PART III: PROFILES AND RECOLLECTIONS -- This Gathering -- Judith Lodge, A Profile -- Takao Tanabe -- Preview -- John Korner -- Elisabeth Hopkins -- A Profile -- The 4th of July, 1954 -- Silly Like Us," A Recollection -- PART IV: REFLECTIONS -- The Cutting of Pages -- Funny People -- Ashes, Ashes -- You Cannot Judge a Pumpkin's Happiness by the Smile Upon Its Face -- The Harvest, the Kill -- A Biography of Jane Rule -- Copyright.