Days of Masquerade | Claudia Schoppmann | In Days of Masquerade Claudia Schoppmann offers the first in-depth account of lesbians living in Germany during the Third Reich. Through a series of i
Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ | Allen J. Frantzen | Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of
Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ | Allen J. Frantzen | Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of
Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 | Katherine V. Forrest | Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring between the covers of the cheaply produced lesbian pul
No Bath but Plenty of Bubbles: An Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73 | Lisa Power | The Gay Liberation Front dragged homosexuality out of the closet, onto the streets and into the public eye. Its London supporters held the first gay d
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
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
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
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
