A queer history of the United States for young people

Introduction: Before we start, or, What is normal?

Native peoples : different genders, different sexualities

Thomas Morton : free love among the Puritans?

Jemima Wilkinson : the surprising life of Publick Universal Friend

Deborah Sampson : patriot, soldier, gender rebel

Nineteenth-century romantic friendships : BFFs or friends with benefits?

The mystery of Emily Dickinson : passionate attachments and independent women

Julia Ward Howe, Samuel Gridley Howe, and Charles Sumner : complicated relationships and radical social change in very proper nineteenth-century Boston

The amazing life of Albert D.J. Cashier : transgender war hero

Charlotte Cushman : American idol, lover of women

Walt Whitman : poet of the people

Rebecca Primus and Addie Brown : a nineteenth-century love story

The radical Victoria Woodhull : first woman to run for president

Jane Addams : the mother of social work

Julian Eltinge : the most famous cross-dresser in America

Marie Equi : fighting for women, workers, peace, and justice for all

Gladys Bentley : blues-singing bulldagger

World War II : the war that started LGBTQ politics

Harry Hay : how his society of fools started a revolution

Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin : climbing the ladder of freedom and justice

Pauli Murray : "You must remember that truth is our only sword"

Bayard Rustin : a life of activism

Carl Wittman : radical movements, political organizing, and country dance

Rita Mae Brown : the lavender menace writes her way to freedom

Gloria Anzaldua : a life between borders

Sylvester and Anita Bryant : marching to two very different drummers

Robert Hillsborough and Harvey Milk : struggle and violence, grief and rage

Essex Hemphill : the power of blackness

Kiyoshi Kuromiya : man of many movements

Felix Gonzalez-Torres : art in the face of death

Moving closer to liberation : the future is in sight : 1990-present

Jamie Nabozny : gay teen hero

Jack Baker and Michael McConnell : it started in a barber shop

Sylvia Rivera : a life in the streets and a guiding star

Coming out or staying in : new queer ways of living in the world today

Young people today : the future of queer history.