Category: History

Linda R. Hirshman | Victory | ‘Drawing on rich archival material and in-depth interviews, a Supreme Court lawyer and political pundit chronicles the gay rights movement, revealing

David W. Jackson | Changing Times | Three years before NYC’s 1969 Stonewall Riots, the ‘gay liberation’ movement catapulted in Kansas City when 40 representatives from nearly 15 organiza

Walter L. Williams ; Yolanda Retter | Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States | The movement for gay and lesbian rights in America is a response to long-held beliefs that have, at times throughout the history of the United States,

Louis Crompton | Homosexuality And Civilization | How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompto

Leila J. Rupp; Susan K. Freeman | Understanding And Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender History | Though largely neglected in classrooms, LGBT history can provide both a fuller understanding of U.S. history and contextualization for the modern worl

Fran Martin | Backward Glances | Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese ma

Donald F. Reuter | Greetings From The Gayborhood | From the Castro to Chelsea,Greetings From the Gayborhood, celebrates twelve traditionally gay neighborhoods in America, past and present. Featuring ar

Esther Newton | Cherry Grove, Fire Island | Recounts the history of Cherry Grove, from the 1930s to the present, including interviews with residents who describe the struggles, the partying, and

Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher; Adrien Saks | Lavender Lists | A compilation of more than a hundred fun and intriguing lists. Here are 6 witch-hunts of past and present; 18 public apologies for homophobia; 10 gay

Owen Heathcote; Alex Hughes; James S. Williams | Gay Signatures | This interdisciplinary book responds to the explosion of gay and lesbian creativity on modern-day France. Rather than attempting to formalize a specif