“I Lift My Face to the Hill”: The Life of Mabel Hampton as Told by a White Woman” is reprinted here from Joan Nestle, A Fragile Union, copyright © 1998, by permission of Cleis Press.
“The Personal Is Political: Queer Fiction and Criticism” is reprinted from Edmund White, The Burning Library, copyright © 1994, by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., and International Creative Management.
“African American Lesbian and Gay History: An Exploration” is reprinted from Barbara Smith, The Truth That Never Hurts, copyright © 1998, by permission of Rutgers University Press.
Excerpts from Monique Wittig, Virgile, non, copyright © 1985, and Across the Acheron, translation copyright © 1987, are reprinted by permission of Les Éditions des Minuit and Peter Owen Publishers.
“My Butch Career: A Memoir” is reprinted from Esther Newton, Margaret Mead Made Me Gay, copyright © 2000, by permission of Duke University Press.
“. . . 3, 2, 1, Contact” by Samuel R. Delany is reprinted from Joan Copjec and Michael Sorkin, eds, Giving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity, copyright © 1999, by permission of Verso Press.
“A Dialogue on Love” is reprinted from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, A Dialogue on Love, copyright © 1999, by permission of Beacon Press.
“A Biographer and His Subject: Wrestling with Bayard Rustin” is reprinted from John D’Emilio, The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture, copyright © 2002, by permission of Duke University Press.
“A Xicanadyke Codex of Changing Consciousness” by Cherríe Moraga, copyright © 2000, is published here by permission of the author.
“Global Violence, Sexual Politics” by Judith Butler, copyright © 2001, is published here by permission of the author.