Category: History

Lillian Faderman | The Gay Revolution | ‘The most comprehensive history to date of America’s gay-rights movement.’ –The Economist

‘To read her is like viewing the AIDS quilt, which

Whitney Davis | Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History | Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in

Eric Marcus | Making Gay History | From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage.Eric Marcus takes

Nan Alamilla Boyd; Horacio N. Roque Ramirez | Bodies Of Evidence | Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that s

Catherine Smith; Cynthia Greig | Women in Pants | Despite what most people may think, American women have always worn pants. Featuring an unusual collection of vintage photographs from the 1850s to th

Gay Wachman | Lesbian Empire | Gay Wachman provides a critical new reading of sexually radical fiction by British women in the years during and after the First World War. She contra

Lesbian History Group | Not a Passing Phase | Everything you’ve always wanted to know about women’s history but were afraid to ask, illuminated in this lively and contentious collection of essays.

Steven Louis Brawley | Gay And Lesbian St. Louis | In the late 19th century, St. Louis–America’s fourth-largest city–was a hub of robust commerce and risqué entertainment. It provided an oasis for th

Adrian Brooks | The Right Side of History | The Right Side of History tells the 100-year history of queer activism in a series of revealing close-ups, first-person accounts, and intimate snapsho

Jonathan Ned Katz | Gay/Lesbian Almanac | A look at American attitudes toward homosexuality from colonial days to the present