Includes bibliographical references and index. A collection of previously published journal articles. Table of Contents 1. Lesbians in American Indian Cultures 2.Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes: The Case of Cross-Gender Females 3.Cross-Cultural Codes on Twenty Sexual Attitudes and Practices 4. The North American Berdache 5. Cultural Factors Affecting Urban Mexican Male Homosexual Behavior 6.Sexual Subordination: Institutionalized Homosexuality and Social Control in Melanesia 7. Polynesia's Third Sex: The Gay Life Starts in the Kitchen 8. Institutionalized Homosexuality of the Mohave Indians 9. Homosexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Unnecessary Controversy 10. Sexual Inversion among the Azande 11. Must We Deracinate Indians to Find Gay Roots? 12. On Male Initiation and Dual Organisation in New Guinea 13. Ritualized Homosexual Behavior in the Male Cults of Melanesia, 1862-1983: An Introduction 14. Berdache: A Brief Review of the Literature 15. Subject Honor and Object Shame: The Construction of Male Homosexuality and Stigma in Nicaragua 16. A Cult Matriarchate and Male Homosexuality 17. The Community Function of Tahitian Male Transvestitism: A Hypothesis 18. Fuzzy Sets and Abominations 19. Stigma Transformation and Relexification: "Gay" in Latin America 20. Sentimental Effusions of Genital Contact in Upper Amazonia 21. Mistaking Fantasy for Ethnography 22. The Zuni Man-Woman 23. Sexual Inversion among Primitive Races