Foreword / Mary McIntosh -- 1. The Challenge of Lesbian and Gay Studies / Jeffrey Weeks -- 2. Homosexuality, Psychology, and Gay and Lesbian Studies / Theo Sandfort -- 3. Mapping the Sociological Gay: Past, Presents and Futures of a Sociology of Same Sex Relations / Ken Plummer -- 4. Hidden from History? Homosexuality and the Historical Sciences / Judith Schuyf -- 5. Queering Anthropology / Gert Hekma -- 6. Homo Legalis: Lesbian and Gay in Legal Studies / Leslie J. Moran -- 7. The Private and the Public: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Political Science / Andre Krouwel and Jan Willem Duyvendak -- 8. Geographies of Sexuality - A Review of Progress / Jon Binnie and Gill Valentine -- 9. Gay Male Literary Studies / Marco Pustianaz -- 10. Lesbian Literary Studies / Liana Borghi -- 11. Fashionably Queer: Lesbian and Gay Cultural Studies / Renee C. Hoogland -- 12. Crossing Borders - A Debate on the Perspectives of Women's Studies and Gay and Lesbian Studies / Theo Sandfort and Hansje Galesloot -- 13. Fighting the Epidemic: Social AIDS Studies / Rommel Mendes-Leite and Onno de Zwart -- 14. Conclusion: Gay and Lesbian Studies at the Crossroads / Judith Schuyf and Theo Sandfort