4 What Do You Mean Your Gay Friend?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 River City 27
5. 2 Should I Stay or Should I Go? 33
6. 3 Out, but Not Too Out 49
7. 4 What Do You Mean Your Gay Friend? 70
8. 5 Straight Woman in a Gay Man’s World 95
9. 6 “There’s Varying Degrees of Friendship in Here” 124
10. 7 “We Haven’t Jumped over the Need for One” 141
11. Conclusion 155
12. Acknowledgments 177
13. Appendix A. Interview Script 179
14. Appendix B. Terminology 185
15. Appendix C. Participants’ Descriptive Statistics 189
16. Appendix D. Reflections on Methodology 193
17. Notes 197
18. References 201
19. Index 215
20. About the Author 223