Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index.
Contents:
Wedding day -- A New England boyhood -- "Bored with trivia and impatient with stupidity" -- With Gene McCarthy in New Hampshire -- Studds for Congress -- The sacred cod -- The congressman in the closet -- The Mashpee Wampanoag and the New Bedford Portuguese -- Knocks on the closet door -- "The president has certified that . . . black is white" -- The fisherman's friend caught in a net -- A gay man runs for congress -- Plague of silence -- Studds versus the Contras -- Provincetown -- Spilling oil, spilling blood -- Gay and lesbian warriors -- Gerry gerrymandered -- Don't ask, don't tell and a memorable address -- Saving the whales . . . but not much else -- A true defense of marriage -- Epilogue -- Interviews.
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