The freedom of the frontier -- Warme Brüder, mouches, and mollies -- Rum, sodomy, and the lash -- Gone for a soldier -- Sodomites in America's libraries -- Racism and homosexual desire in the antebellum period -- The nation's capital under Jefferson : four case studies -- On the streets of Philadelphia, Annapolis, and Boston -- Spirituality and sublimation -- Gender anarchy as a revolutionary threat -- Male intimacy at the fringes.