Category: History

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

Bonnie Zimmerman | Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures | A rich heritage that needs to be documented Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sex

Larry Gross | Up From Invisibility | A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movemen

James T. Sears | Lonely Hunters | This is the story of Southern gays and lesbians in the twenty-year span between the end of World War II and the Stonewall Riot that sparked widespread

Marc Stein | City Of Sisterly And Brotherly Loves | Marc Stein’s City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves is refreshing for at least two reasons: it centers on a city that is not generally associated with a

Steve Gdula | Wearing History | The T-shirt is a part of Americana, and nowhere is this reflected more than in the gay and lesbian community’s struggle for civil rights. Through ima