Smash the church, smash the state! : the early years of gay liberation / edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca.

Includes bibliographical references.

Militant Foreshadowings / Susan Stryker -- Eighth Grade Epiphany / Kenneth Laverne Bunch -- Kiyoshi Kuromiya: Intergrating the Issues / Liz Highleyman -- A Consciousness Raised / Hal Tarr -- Coming Out and into the GLF: Banned No More in Boston / John Kyper -- My Adventures as a Gay Teacher / Tom Ammiano -- Pre-Now / James C. Roberts -- My Memories as a Gay Militant in NYC / Nestor Latronico -- From the Closets of New Haven to the Collectives of New York GLF / Jason Serinus -- Even Iowa Homos Got the Blues / Dennis Brumm -- There's a Certain Kind of Woman / Mara Math -- A Poem / Fran Winant -- No Girl in My Soup / Thom Nickels -- Coming Out as a Reluctant Activist in a Gay Maoist Cell who Mostly Just Wanted to Get Laid / Mark Freeman -- Our Passion Shook the World / Martha Shelley -- Sylvester: A Singer Without a Closet -- Living Lesbian Nation / Victoria Brownworth -- Radical Spirit and Vision / John Lauritsen -- Radicalqueens Manifesto #1 -- Radicalqueens Manifesto #2 -- The Radicalqueens Trans-Formation / Cei Bell -- A Woman of Vision / Pat Parker -- Sisters and Brothers: A Writer Hungering for Family Finds GLF / Perry Brass -- Dyketactics!: Electrifying the Imaginations of the Gay and Women's Communities / Barbara Ruth -- A Life of Seeing Connections / Simeon White -- Fopping It Up: Former Cockette Rumi's Story Interview with / Rumi Missabu -- Gay Raiders / Mark Segal -- Between Bohemia and Revolution / Flavia Rando -- Gay Liberation Front: Report from London / Richard Bolingbroke -- Sylvia Rivera: A Woman Before Her Time / Liz Highleyman -- Two Songs / Blackberri -- Honey, We Unshrunk the Shrinks! / Pam Mitchell -- The Radicalesbian Story: An Evolution of Consciousness / Ellen Shumsky -- The Woman Identified Woman Manifesto -- Berkeley & the Fight for an Effeminist, Socially Transformative Gay Identity / Nick Benton -- Two Poems / Dajenya -- The Effeminist Moment / Steven F. Dansky -- Dyketactics!: Notes Toward an Un-Silencing / Paola Bacchetta -- Two Poems / Barbara Ruth -- The Baltic Street Collective / N.A. Diaman -- Gay Pagans and Atheists Manifesto -- Looking Back from the Mexico-U.S. Border / Roberto Camp -- A Letter from Huey Newton to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters about the Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements -- Making History / Sidney Brinkley -- New York City Legend / Marsha P. Johnson -- Lessons from the ENDA Mess / Doug Ireland -- Happy to Be Childless / Allen Young -- The Gay Community in Crisis / Don Kilhefner -- Now We Need a Revolution / Merle Woo -- Gay Liberation Media.