Table of Contents

• Editor’s Foreword
  
• Preface
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Abbreviations
  
• Rules of the Road
  
• PART I: THE ROLLER COASTER
  
• Chapter 1. My Minnesota Roots
  
• Chapter 2. Pushing the Pedals of Power: From Minnesota to the Gay Rights National Lobby
  
• Chapter 3. Money Talks: Gay and Lesbian Political Clout and the Founding of Human Rights Campaign Fund
  
• Chapter 4. We’ve Met the Enemy . . . and the Enemy Is Us: Internal Conflicts Can Be Far More Painful Than Fighting Homophobes
  
• Chapter 5. Beginning Again: Building an Effective Capacity to Generate Grassroots Mail to Congress
  
• Chapter 6. Speak Out
  
• PART II: REFLECTIONS OF AN OLD, TIRED ACTIVIST
  
• Chapter 7. If It Ain’t Broken . . . : Demonstrating a Need for the Gay and Lesbian Rights Legislation
  
• Chapter 8. One-to-One Lobbying
  
• Chapter 9. Do Dog and Pony Shows Make a Difference? How Much Do Hearings Really Matter?
  
• Chapter 10. Thoughts on Fund-Raising
  
• Chapter 11. Of Battles Lost and Opportunities Missed
  
• Chapter 12. Bedfellows Make Strange Politics: Of Hypocrisy and Honesty, Coming Out and Outing
  
• Chapter 13. The Politics of Self-Indulgence? A Self-Confessed Insider Assesses His Experience with Protest Activities
  
• Chapter 14. Wrapping Up a Movement Career: Retiring on Disability, Acknowledgment, and . . . Victory!
  
• Editor’s Afterword
  
• PART III: APPENDIXES
  
• Appendix A. Membership Lists of Boards of Directors
  
• Appendix B. Cosponsors of the National Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights Bill
  
• Appendix C. African-American Support for Lesbian and Gay Rights
  
• PART IV: TIMELINE AND REMEMBRANCES
  
• Stephen Robert Endean: Time Line
  
• Congressional Tribute to Steve Endean (Martin Olav Sabo)
  
• Tribute to Steve Endean (Robert R. Meek)
  
• Steve Endean: A Remembrance (Allan H. Spear)
  
• Notes
  
• Index
  

About the Author

Vern L Bullough, Vicki Eaklor, Robert R Meek