Part I. Growing strong in my broken places
Why not me? : a medical diagnosis upturns my life and launches a journey of self-discovery
Survivor : the roots of my resilience
Normal : my gay liberation
Destiny calling : how a lonely boy became a professional outsider
The end of innocence : how AIDS became my "beat"
Tribulations : perpetual grief fuels my budding activism (and self-defeating sexual behavior)
The cruelest month : watching the man I loved die
Hard ways to the stars : romantic and professional rejections to overcome
Struggling writer : trying to stay balanced as losses mount and risks increase
Wounded warrior : how AIDS and a shame-filled man taught me to value myself
Part II. The heroic legacy
Subversives : how "Gaydar" helped gay men survive in the :old days" before Stonewall
Gay power! : seizing control of the discussion about gay lives
Out and proud : a community and movement emerge
Love in action : showing the world what "community" looks like in the AIDS epidemic
Claiming our power : AIDS organizing proved our ability to create change that benefits all
Love (and America) won : our successful push for marriage equality moved America closer to fulfilling its promise
Part III. A home in the world
How to raise a gay son: straight parents become staunch allies after son comes out to them at fifteen
Husbands and dads : pioneering Massachusetts couple finds resilience in marriage and fatherhood
Becoming their story's hero : helping at-risk gay youth find strength in their resilience
Invincible city of friends : from drag houses to community centers, LGBT Americans take our communities seriously
God loves us, too : the inside truth about religion and homosexuality
Part IV. At home in ourselves
Integration : the power of authenticity in our work lives
Doubly different, twice as strong : gay men of color or different ability show how to find resilience in all their "identities"
To our health! : building upon our resilience is the key to good health
Defining "old" for ourselves : the open secret is that most of us already do
Stonewall strong : life is good when we are the heroes of our own life's story, standing firmly on our community's proud history of resilience.
