Part 1 The forebears: Correspondence with George Platt Lynes, Samuel M. Steward; The Sergeant with the Rose Tattoo, Samuel M. Steward writing as Phil Andros; from Cruising Horny Corners, Clay Caldwell writing as Lance Lester. Part 2 The sexual Grubb Street: Workour, Roy F. Wood; Peekers, T.R. Witomski writing as Ray Waldheim; They Call Me Horsemeat, D.V. Sadero writing as Rick Lane; A Cowboy Christmas, Lars Eighner; The Shirt, Robin Metcalfe; Negative Image, Michael Lassell writing as Michael Lewis; Brian's Bedroom, Leigh Rutledge; Blue Light, Steven Saylor writing ad Aaron Travis; Getting Timchenko, Steven Saylor writing as Aaron Travis. Part 3 Women and gay men's erotica: Belonging, Pat Califa; Elliot - The Garden and the Bar, Anne Rice; Elliot - Below Stairs, Anne Rice. Part 4 The sexual underground, from Run Little Leather Boy, Larry Townsend, Malory's Big Brother from the Green Hotel Stories, Gordon Hoban. Part 5 In the mainstream: from A Boy's Own Story, Edmund White; from The Beautiful Room is Empty, Edmund White; The Brutus Cinema from The Swimming Pool-Library, Alan Hollinghurst. Part 6 First person, nonfiction: Mmmmpfgh, Andrew Holleran; Thinking Off, Scott O'Hara writing as Spunk; Safe Sex Without Condoms, John Wagenhauser. Part 7 Post-AIDS, postpolitical: Soggy Biscuit, Barry Lowe; The Reality of a Dream, W. Delon Strode; The Group, John Wagenhauser writing as Wolfgang; Good With Words, Stephen Greco.