This introduction to the special issue recovering two pioneering anti-homophobic Freudian psychoanalysts of the 1970s-1980s - the Los Angelean Robert J. Stoller and the Zurich-based Fritz Morgenthaler - situates their contributions in the triple contexts of the history of psychoanalytic theorizing about homosexuality; both men's work at the border of ethnography, including (in both cases) in Papua New Guinea; and the shifting stakes caused by the sexual revolution of the 1960s-1970s and each man's ensuing conceptual innovations in theorizing sexuality more generally. Whether exposing the ‘queerness’ within the heterosexual majority (Stoller), or honoring ‘the sexual’ as a vital force in human life (Morgenthaler), both men - while repurposing Freud in quite distinct ways - came to emphasize that what looked like sexuality very often had non-sexual sources.