List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The pre-World War II "gay" flight attendant -- The Cold War gender order -- "Homosexual panic" and the steward's demise -- Flight attendants and queer civil rights -- Flight attendants, women's liberation, and gay liberation -- Flight attendants and the origins of an epidemic -- The traynor legacy versus the "patient zero" myth -- Queer equality in the age of neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.