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When Brooklyn Was Queer by Ryan Hugh

When Brooklyn Was Queer | Ryan Hugh | Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s

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Gay L.A. by Lillian Faderman; Stuart Timmons

Gay L.A. | Lillian Faderman; Stuart Timmons | The exhortation to ‘Go West!’ has always sparked the American imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the City of Angels provid

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Queer Twin Cities by Twin Cities Oral History Project GLBT

Queer Twin Cities | Twin Cities Oral History Project GLBT | The Twin Cities is home to one of the largest and most vital GLBT populations in the nation–and one of the highest percentages of gay residents in th

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Land Of 10,000 Loves by Stewart Van Cleve

Land Of 10,000 Loves | Stewart Van Cleve |

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Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, American Studies, History, LGBT, Culture and Society

For too long, LGBTQ communities–includin

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The Women’s House of Detention: a Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan

Hugh Ryan | The Women’s House of Detention: a Queer History of a Forgotten Prison | This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in

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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide by Chuck K. Stewart

Chuck K. Stewart | The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide | This set has an ambitious scope with the goal of offering the most up-to-date international overview of key issues in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisex

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The Butch Lesbians of the ’50s, ’60s, And ’70s Coloring Book by Avery Cassell

Avery Cassell | The Butch Lesbians of the ’50s, ’60s, And ’70s Coloring Book | Butches-we got butches! Meet glorious, real life, historical butches from all around the world in The Butch Lesbians of the 50s, 60s, and 70s Coloring

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Gay & Lesbian, Then & Now by Reynolds Robert

Reynolds Robert | Gay & Lesbian, Then & Now | Over seventy years, Australia has quietly undergone one of the biggest social revolutions in its history. Once viewed as criminals, sinners or sick, l

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Queer Budapest, 1873-1961 by Anita Kurimay

Anita Kurimay | Queer Budapest, 1873-1961 | By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the “Pearl of the Danube,” it boasted so

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The Deviant’s War by Eric Cervini

Eric Cervini | The Deviant’s War | In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington,