Part one: Identity and lifestyles
Introduction: Identity and lifestyles / Karla Jay
Lesbian sexuality: an unfinished saga / Nina Sabaroff
What's a dyke to do? and What the dyke is doing / Jeanne Córdova
With all due respect: in defense of all lesbian lifestyles / Jane Rule
On human identity and gay identity: a liberationist dilemma / Allen Young
Surviving gay coupledom / Karla Jay
Some thoughts on monogamy / Julie Lee
Living alone / George Whitmore
The bi-sexual potential / Laura Della Rosa
A bi-sexual offers some thoughts on fences / Jem
Butch or fem? The third world lesbian's dilemma / Anonymous
Search for words / Konstantin Berlandt
Part two: Survival in a hostile world
Introduction: Survival in a hostile world / Allen Young
How to come out without being thrown out / Jeanne Córdova
Thriving decloseted in rural academe / Louie Crew
Out in the workplace / Don Mager
Bundles of twigs in New Hampshire: a high school teacher's report / Robert LaRiviere
Hookers: queer fish / Catherine Nossa
Huster: a boy for all seasons: an interview between a hustler and his customer
Lesbian mother / Jeanne Perreault
Faggot father / Don Mager
The life and death of a gay prisoner / Edward E. Loftin and Join Hands
Gay couples and straight law / Tom Hurley
Lesbians and the law / Karla Dobinski
Pocket legal guide for gay people / Chicago Gay People's Legal Committee
Part three: Creating community and helping ourselves
Creating community and helping ourselves / Karla Jay
Can men and women work together?
Some thoughts on how gay men relate to women / Allen Young
Oppression is big business: scrutinizing gay therapy / Karla Jay
The spirit is liberationist but the flesh is ... or, You can't always get into bed with your dogma / Karla Jay
Nigger in the woodpile / Thomas Dotton
We'd better all hang together or surely we'll all hang separately / Rita Mae Brown
Preserving the past for the future / June Rook
Getting it together journalism: a view of Fag Rag / Charley Shively
Power to gay people: a Los Angeles experiment in community action / Richard Nash
Information on VD for gay women and men / Julian Bamford
Bottoms up: an in-depth look at VD and your asshole / Edward Guthmann
Alcohol use and abuse in the gay community: a view toward alternatives / Kevin J. McGirr.