Jonathan Bell is Professor of U.S. History at University College London.

• Introduction: Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970sJonathan BellPart I. Public Policy Comes Out: The 1970s1. A Clinic Comes Out: Idealism, Pragmatism, and Gay Health Services in Boston, 1971-1985Catherine Batza2. "A Ray of Sunshine": Housing, Family, and Gay Political Power in 1970s Los AngelesIan M. Baldwin3. Making Sexual Citizens: LGBT politics, health care, and the State in the 1970sJonathan BellPart II. Confronting AIDS4. AIDS and the Urban Crisis: Stigma, Cost, and the Persistence of Racism in Chicago, 1981-1996Timothy Stewart-Winter5. "Don't We Die Too?" The Politics of AIDS and Race in PhiladelphiaDan Royles6. Black Gay Lives Matter: Mobilizing Sexual Identities in the Eras of Reagan and Thatcher ConservativismKevin MumfordPart III. Beyond Liberalism and Conservatism7. Gay and Conservative: An Early History of the Log Cabin RepublicansClayton Howard8. "No Discrimination and No Special Rights": Gay Rights, Family Values, and the Politics of Moderation in the 1992 ElectionRachel Guberman9. Homophobia Baiting: Queering the Trayvon Martin Archives and Challenging the Anti-Blackness of Colorblind PoliticsJulio CapÓ, Jr.NotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"Beyond the Politics of the Closet draws together scholars ready to steer the histories of American governance and politics in new directions. By centering LGBT people, these writers reveal that LGBT politics transformed the state and realigned the nation's electoral coalitions at the end of the twentieth century." (Christopher Agee, University of Colorado, Denver)

Jonathan Bell is Professor of U.S. History at University College London.

• Introduction: Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970sJonathan BellPart I. Public Policy Comes Out: The 1970s1. A Clinic Comes Out: Idealism, Pragmatism, and Gay Health Services in Boston, 1971-1985Catherine Batza2. "A Ray of Sunshine": Housing, Family, and Gay Political Power in 1970s Los AngelesIan M. Baldwin3. Making Sexual Citizens: LGBT politics, health care, and the State in the 1970sJonathan BellPart II. Confronting AIDS4. AIDS and the Urban Crisis: Stigma, Cost, and the Persistence of Racism in Chicago, 1981-1996Timothy Stewart-Winter5. "Don't We Die Too?" The Politics of AIDS and Race in PhiladelphiaDan Royles6. Black Gay Lives Matter: Mobilizing Sexual Identities in the Eras of Reagan and Thatcher ConservativismKevin MumfordPart III. Beyond Liberalism and Conservatism7. Gay and Conservative: An Early History of the Log Cabin RepublicansClayton Howard8. "No Discrimination and No Special Rights": Gay Rights, Family Values, and the Politics of Moderation in the 1992 ElectionRachel Guberman9. Homophobia Baiting: Queering the Trayvon Martin Archives and Challenging the Anti-Blackness of Colorblind PoliticsJulio CapÓ, Jr.NotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"Beyond the Politics of the Closet draws together scholars ready to steer the histories of American governance and politics in new directions. By centering LGBT people, these writers reveal that LGBT politics transformed the state and realigned the nation's electoral coalitions at the end of the twentieth century." (Christopher Agee, University of Colorado, Denver)

Jonathan Bell is Professor of U.S. History at University College London.

• Introduction: Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970sJonathan BellPart I. Public Policy Comes Out: The 1970s1. A Clinic Comes Out: Idealism, Pragmatism, and Gay Health Services in Boston, 1971-1985Catherine Batza2. "A Ray of Sunshine": Housing, Family, and Gay Political Power in 1970s Los AngelesIan M. Baldwin3. Making Sexual Citizens: LGBT politics, health care, and the State in the 1970sJonathan BellPart II. Confronting AIDS4. AIDS and the Urban Crisis: Stigma, Cost, and the Persistence of Racism in Chicago, 1981-1996Timothy Stewart-Winter5. "Don't We Die Too?" The Politics of AIDS and Race in PhiladelphiaDan Royles6. Black Gay Lives Matter: Mobilizing Sexual Identities in the Eras of Reagan and Thatcher ConservativismKevin MumfordPart III. Beyond Liberalism and Conservatism7. Gay and Conservative: An Early History of the Log Cabin RepublicansClayton Howard8. "No Discrimination and No Special Rights": Gay Rights, Family Values, and the Politics of Moderation in the 1992 ElectionRachel Guberman9. Homophobia Baiting: Queering the Trayvon Martin Archives and Challenging the Anti-Blackness of Colorblind PoliticsJulio CapÓ, Jr.NotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"Beyond the Politics of the Closet draws together scholars ready to steer the histories of American governance and politics in new directions. By centering LGBT people, these writers reveal that LGBT politics transformed the state and realigned the nation's electoral coalitions at the end of the twentieth century." (Christopher Agee, University of Colorado, Denver)