Secret city: the hidden history of gay Washington

Dramatis personae

Introduction: Comrades

Franklin Delano Roosevelt. "No comment"

"Worse than a murderer"

Senator X

Patriotic homosexuals

"The greatest national scandal since the existence of the United States"

Harry Truman. The concealed enemy

"This moral leper"

Lavender lists

"A government within a government"

The homintern

Dwight Eisenhower. "No more Bohlens!"

The heterosexual dictatorship

Pixies on the Potomac

"We accuse..."

The hunted

John F. Kennedy. First friends

The group of the intrepid

"That old black fairy" - Lyndon B. Johnson. A long way from Arp

"A quite serious situation"

"Gone and forgotten"

The Fruit Loop

Scandal in Sacramento

The thrill of treason

Richard Nixon. "Destroy your opponent"

Fags

"We are impatient"

The city of conversation

Gerald Ford. The ultimate democracy

"Too good an opportunity"

Jimmy Carter. Out of the closets, into the White House

Code breakers

Ronald Reagan. "The homosexual thing"

The Manchurian Candidate

An enclosed and enchanted garden

Sodom-on-the-Potomac

"I don't have it, do you?"

"Them" is "us"

"Our Sebastian"

Mr. Green

The wonderful, the creative, and the brave

George H.W. Bush. Naming names

Bill Clinton. A profoundly important strength

Conclusion: The gay century.