Long before Stonewall: histories of same-sex sexuality in early America

Introduction: Long before Stonewall / Thomas A. Foster

Part I Colonial native Americas

Warfare, homosexuality, and gender status among American Indian men in the southwest / Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-women: Gender crossing and same-sex relations in eighteenth-century northeastern Indian culture / Gunlög Fur

"Abominable sin" in colonial New Mexico: Spanish and Pueblo perceptions of same-sex sexuality / Tracy Brown

Part II Colonial British America

"The cry of Sodom": Discourse, intercourse, and desire in colonial New England / Richard Godbeer

Border crossings: The queer erotics of Quakerism in seventeenth-century New England / Anne G. Myles

Hermaphrodites and "same-sex" sex in early America / Elizabeth Reis

Mapping an Atlantic sexual culture: Homoeroticism in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Clare A. Lyons

Part III Romantic bonds in the early republic

An excerpt from Surpassing the Love of Men / Lillian Faderman

Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio: An early American romance / Caleb Crain

The Swan of Litchfield: Sarah Pierce and the lesbian landscape poem / Lisa L. Moore

Part IV Reformers in the new nation

Sexual desire, crime, and punishment in the early republic / Mark E. Kann

The black body erotic and the republican body politic, 1790-1820 / John Saillant

What's sex got to do with it? marriage versus circulation in The Pennsylvania Magazine, 1775-1776 / Laura Mandell

In a French position: Radical pornography and homoerotic society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the secret witness / Stephen Shapiro

Afterword / John D'Emilio.