Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 What Is Queer Here? Looking for Experiences in Early Minnesota -- Ozaawindib of Leech Lake -- Lucy "La Roi" Lobdell -- Was Alexander Ramsey Queer? -- Oscar Wilde's Visit -- The Death of William Williams -- The Emporium and Golden Rule Department Stores -- Good-time Parties on Rondo Avenue -- Josephine Baker at the Metropolitan Theater -- Drag at the Nicollet Hotel -- Gertrude Stein Visits the Women's City Club -- Clement Haupers -- Fort Snelling -- 2 How We Kept Warm: Queer Life in the Vice Districts of the Twin Cities -- Rice Park -- The James Montague Murder -- The Coney Island -- The Hennepin Baths -- Union Bus Depot -- The Garrick Theater -- Kirmser's Bar -- The Dugout -- The Onyx Bar -- The Bremer Arcade -- The Gay 90's Complex -- Directory Services, Incorporated -- The Hotel Andrews -- The Brass Rail -- 3 Act Up Here: A Legacy of Activism -- Jack Baker and Michael McConnell's Marriage License -- Allan Spear -- The Lesbian Feminist Organizing Committee -- The Minnesota Committee for Gay and Lesbian Rights -- Lutherans Concerned -- Dignity Twin Cities -- St. Paul's Equal Rights Ordinance -- The GLC Voice -- The Guardianship of Sharon Kowalski -- Brian Coyle -- The Minnesota Family Council -- Gay Community Services, the GLCAC, and OutFront Minnesota -- ACT-UP Demonstrates in Mora -- The Bisexual Organizing Project -- Paul Koering Votes against Gay Marriage -- The Two Spirit Press Room -- Twin Cities Trans March -- 4 Erotic Cities: Urban Sexuality Explored -- The 19 Bar -- Honey Harold's Many Ventures -- Sutton's -- Queer Warehouse Parties -- Foxy's -- The Rossmor Building -- The Town House -- The Sandbox/Club Cabaret -- The Noble Roman -- The Saloon -- The Locker Room -- Bare Ass Beach -- The Adonis Theater -- The Main Club -- The Minneapolis Eagle -- Margarita Bella.

Pi Bar -- The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport -- 5 Come Outside: Queer People Out in the Open -- A Death in Loring Park -- Twin Cities Pride -- The State Fair -- Rising Moon and the Pioneer Farm -- Twin Cities Goodtime Softball League -- The 1986 Winter Gay Games -- Twin Ports Pride -- The AIDS Trek -- The North Star Gay Rodeo -- Outwoods -- North Country Bears/ Minnesota Bears -- The Queer Street Patrol -- Capital City Pride -- The 1997 Two Spirit Gathering -- Twin Cities Black Pride -- Pine City Pride -- The 2008 Two Spirit Gathering -- 6 The Lavender Tower: Institutions of Art and Education -- The Transsexual Research Project -- Fight Repression of Erotic Expression -- The Amazon Feminist Bookstore -- The Club -- The Northfield Gay Liberation Front -- At the Foot of the Mountain Theater -- Jim Chalgren LGBT Center -- A Brother's Touch Bookstore -- Patrick's Cabaret -- The Quatrefoil Library -- Philanthrofund -- District 202 -- Angels in America at the World Theater -- The Anoka-Hennepin School District -- UMD GLBT Services -- People Representing the Sexual Minority (PRiSM) -- Straights and Gays for Equality (SAGE) -- The Transgender Commission -- 7 Building Community: Life beyond the Gay Ghetto -- Gay House -- The Lesbian Resource Center -- Christopher Street -- A Woman's Coffeehouse -- Dyke Heights -- All God's Children Metropolitan Community Church -- Equal Time -- The Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP) -- Out to Brunch -- The Aurora Lesbian Center and the Northland Gay Men's Center -- The NAMES Project Memorial Quilt -- The Basket and the Bow -- Gay and Lesbian Elders Active in Minnesota (GLEAM) -- The Bisexual Connection -- The BECAUSE Conference -- Minnesota Men of Color -- BiCities! -- Lavender Hills and the Swish Alps -- Homo Heights -- Shades of Yellow -- The Iron Range GLBTA -- Epilogue: Dust on the Weathervane -- Note on Sources.

Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.