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Days of Masquerade by Claudia Schoppmann

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

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Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ by Allen J. Frantzen

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

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Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ by Allen J. Frantzen

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

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Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 by Katherine V. Forrest

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

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No Bath but Plenty of Bubbles: An Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73 by Lisa Power

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

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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