xi, 344 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-335) and index

Introduction: emancipatory science and homosexual rights -- The relationship between homosexuals and sex researchers, 1870-1940 -- Jan Gay and the Sex Variants Committee, 1935-41 -- Homosexual life stories, 1935-41 -- Henry and Gross and the study of sex offenders, 1937-72 -- Thomas Painter and the study of male prostitution, 1935-43 -- Toward participatory research on homosexuality: Painter, Kinsey, and the Kinsey Institute, 1943-73 -- Evelyn Hooker, Frank Kameny, and depathologizing homosexuality, 1957-73 -- Epilogue: beyond 1973

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