Category: History

Marilyn Tower Oliver | Gay and Lesbian Rights | Examines the issue of gay and lesbian rights in the United States, covering the history of the gay rights movement, the current struggles it faces, an

Jonathan Ned Katz | Gay/Lesbian Almanac | A chronology of two sexual worlds–early Colonial America and early modern United States–combines a wide variety of information, including personal t

Ted Sahl | From Closet To Community | Photojournalist Ted Sahl has chronicled the visual history of the movement for gay and lesbian liberation in San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley since

Martha Vicinus | Intimate Friends | Intimate Friends explores the fascinating history of the erotic friendships of educated English and American women over the 150-year period leading up

Madeline D. Davis; Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawin

Robert B. Ridinger | Speaking for Our Lives | ‘Read the words they risked everything for!’ This landmark volume collects more than a hundred years of the most important public rhetoric on gay and

Elizabeth A. Armstrong | Forging Gay Identities | Unlike many social movements, the gay and lesbian struggle for visibility and rights has succeeded in combining a unified group identity with the cele

Thomas George Johnson | Sappho, The Lesbian | Biography and works of Sappho, written in 1899.

Anne MacKay | Wolf Girls At Vassar | A collection of reflections by lesbian and gay Vassar graduates recalls the struggles of homosexuals living under a cloud of silence and repression fo

Lisa E. Davis | Undercover Girl | At the height of the Red Scare, Angela Calomiris was a paid FBI informant inside the American Communist Party. As a Greenwich Village photographer, Ca