Table of Contents
Chronology xi
Introduction xiii
Part I Chicago 1
Chapter 1 Infant of the Spring 3
Chapter 2 "The King of the Kitchenettes" 14
Chapter 3 Stay Where You Belong 27
Chapter 4 American Princess 46
Part II Madison, Wisconsin 59
Chapter 5 Entering into a Romance 61
Chapter 6 The Young Progressives 77
Chapter 7 Mexico 85
Part III Harlem 95
Chapter 8 "Flag from a Kitchenette Window" 97
Chapter 9 Freedom 111
Chapter 10 "A Young Harriet Tubman" 121
Chapter 11 The Passport 135
Chapter 12 "I Do Love You" 145
Part IV Greenwich Village 161
Chapter 13 Camp Unity 163
Chapter 14 "One Becomes a Woman" 174
Chapter 15 "I Ain't Sick" 192
Chapter 16 "Cindy, Oh Cindy" 206
Chapter 17 The Invisible Lesbian 216
Part V The Great White Way 227
Chapter 18 "Go the Way Your Blood Beats" 229
Chapter 19 "Something Urgently on Its Way" 243
Chapter 20 Dismantling the Master's House 264
Chapter 21 Chitterlin' Heights 283
Epilogue 303
Notes 306
Selected Bibliography 348
Acknowledgments 353
Illustration Credits 356
Index 357