This is a textbook for beginning courses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies. Covering history, politics, literature and the arts, and media, the authors discuss such topics as constructing the modern homosexual, Stonewall and beyond, inclusion and equality, queer diversities, lesbian pulp novels and gay physique pictorials, censorship and moral panic, film and television, and queers and the Internet. Each chapter includes a set of readings, questions for discussion, and a list of references and further reading.