The history of homosexuality: a new and controversial history research in homosexuality: methodological problems
1: A brief apogee: the 1920s, a first homosexual liberation
between dandy and militant
A myth is born: those flamboyant days
The homosexual scene: subversive language
Magical cities, mythical cities: the geography of where to meet
Liberation on the move: the golden age of homosexual movements
The German model: communitarianism and militancy
The German model as an influence on homosexual movements
The French way: individualism comes up short
An inversion of values: the cult of homosexuality
Seduced in the public schools
Two generations of homosexual intellectuals
2: Unacknowledged fears and desires: ambiguous speech and stereotyped images
Homosexuals become commonplace during the inter-war period
Awakening: working to construct a homosexual identity
The medical model: an identity imposed from outside
Being homosexual: proclaiming an identity
Defining oneself as a lesbian
an identity under construction
The birth of a homosexual community?
Breaking the silence: homosexuals and public opinion
Homosexuality and the winds of fashion
Homosexuals as political chips
Homosexuals in the political arena
Misunderstanding or betrayal? The left shifts between puritanism and opportunism
Genealogy of a crime: homosexuality as a fascistic perversion
3: A factitious tolerance losing ground under the repression of the 1930s
Reactionary England (1919-1939)
Weimar Germany, permissiveness and repression (1919-1933)
out of probation (1919-1939)
The end of a dream: the German model blows up
1933-1935: destruction of the German model
1935-1939: the organization of the anti-homosexual terror
The late 1930s: French and English homosexuals in a turmoil
Toward homosexual liberation.
