Contents
Author’s Note
PROLOGUE:
THE DANGEROUS DIFFERENCE (1778–1954)
BOOK ONE:
THE SANCTION OF THE VICTIM (1954–1969)
1. What Tom Dooley Really Wanted: A Prologue to Vietnam
2. Manhood
3. Rules
4. The Spy
5. A Name on the Wall
6. Convenience of the Government (Part 1)
7. Days of Future Passed
8. Home Front
9. The Sanction of the Victim
BOOK TWO:
INTERROGATIONS (1969–1975)
10. National Security
11. Endings
12. Interrogations
13. Indoctrination
14. Dykes and Whores
15. In Country
16. Back to the World
17. Winners
18. STRAC
19. Politics and Prejudice
20. The Letter
BOOK THREE:
TRIALS (1975–1976)
21. The Color Purple (Part 1)
22. The Green Beret
23. Freedom
24. The Mile-Wide Word
25. Triangulates
26. Adjectives and Nouns
27. The Next Generation
28. Transitions
29. The Secret Report
BOOK FOUR:
THE FAMILY (1977–1980)
30. The Family
31. Reaction
32. The Gayest Ship in the Navy and Other Stories
33. Women at Sea
34. Angry Gods
35. Memorial Day
36. Glory Days
37. “Until After November”
38. Interregnum
39. Future Imperfect
BOOK FIVE:
LESBIAN VAMPIRES OF BAVARIA (1981–1985)
40. Thoughtcrimes
41. Surrender Dorothy
42. Railroading
43. Doreen
44. Lesbian Vampires of Bavaria
45. Straights
46. In the Midnight Sky
47. Heroes
48. Exiles
49. Blanket Parties
50. Costs
51. HTLV-III
52. Dykebusters
53. Friends of Helga
54. Where It All Begins
BOOK SIX:
HOMOVAC (1986–1996)
55. Tom Dooley’s Undesirable Discharge
56. The Unquiet Death of Michael W. Foster
57. Countertrends
58. The Color Purple (Part 2)
59. At the Buccaneer Motel
60. HOMOVAC: Prisoner Number 73343
61. Foreign Affairs
62. The Escape
63. Naming Names
64. The Soesterberg Affair
65. Funerals
66. Malleus Maleficarum
67. The Release of Prisoner Number 17
68. Embarrassments in the Making
69. Explosions
70. Mockingbirds
71. Official Government Sources
72. Hearings
73. Holding Actions
74. Vindication
75. The Fag Killer
EPILOGUE: PROMISES TO KEEP
76. Convenience of the Government (Part 2)
77. Tom Dooley’s Honorable Discharge
Notes on Sources
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author