Category: History

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Zeit Der Maskierung by Claudia Schoppmann

Claudia Schoppmann | Zeit Der Maskierung | Schoppmann investigates the lives and stories of Lesbians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism. She is faced with little documentation

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Title Fight by Gillian E. Hanscombe; Andrew Lumsden

Gillian E. Hanscombe; Andrew Lumsden | Title Fight | Gay News (UK) was a pioneering independent community newspaper (1972 – 1983) for homosexual men and women, Britain’s first of its kind.

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Mardi Gras! by Richard Wherrett

Richard Wherrett | Mardi Gras! | This collection of articles about the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras tells of scene queens, love affairs and legends and presents the recollections

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The Lesbian History Sourcebook by Alison Oram; Annmarie Turnbull

Alison Oram; Annmarie Turnbull | The Lesbian History Sourcebook | Covering a 100 year period, this book looks at women who loved other women, had sex with other women, who cross-dressed and who resisted heterosexuali

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Amazons And Military Maids by Julie Wheelwright

Julie Wheelwright | Amazons And Military Maids | Drawing on memoirs, letters and diaries, exposes the hidden history of women who chose to live, work and love as men. It reveals for the first time a

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Victory by Linda R. Hirshman

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

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Changing Times by David W. Jackson

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

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Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States by Walter L. Williams ; Yolanda Retter

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,

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Homosexuality And Civilization by Louis Crompton

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

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Understanding And Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender History by Leila J. Rupp; Susan K. Freeman

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