Category: History

Posted in Award Winner Canadian Eh History

Awfully Devoted Women by Cameron Duder

Cameron Duder | Awfully Devoted Women | The lives of many lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked inmystery. Historians have illuminated the worlds of upper-middle-class’romantic fri

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Wide-Open Town by Nan Alamilla Boyd

Nan Alamilla Boyd | Wide-Open Town | Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco’s to

Posted in Autobiography/Biography History

Zeit Der Maskierung by Claudia Schoppmann

Claudia Schoppmann | Zeit Der Maskierung | Schoppmann investigates the lives and stories of Lesbians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism. She is faced with little documentation

Posted in History LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Lesbian Lives In Soviet And Post-Soviet Russia by Francesca Stella

Francesca Stella | Lesbian Lives In Soviet And Post-Soviet Russia | Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book explores the everyday lives of ‘lesbian’ women in urban Russia. The first part (‘time’) examines g

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Ask and Tell by Steve Estes

Steve Estes | Ask and Tell | Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was the directive of President Clinton’s 1993 military policy regarding gay and lesbian soldiers. This official silence continu

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The Gay Metropolis by Charles Kaiser

Charles Kaiser | The Gay Metropolis |

This “fascinating and fabulous oral history”(Vanity Fair), “both serious and gossipy”(New York Times), chronicles gay life in New York City-and a

Posted in History LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Pink Plaque Guide To London by Michael Elliman; Frederick Roll

Michael Elliman; Frederick Roll | Pink Plaque Guide To London | This book prfiles 100 famous homosexuals who lived in London, including Erasmus, Christopher Marlowe, Radclyffe Hall and Mary Renault.

Posted in History YA Nonfiction (Young Adult)

Statistical Timeline and Overview of Gay Life by Zachary Chastain

Zachary Chastain | Statistical Timeline and Overview of Gay Life | The LGBT community’s history is one of pride in the midst of prejudice, oppression, and misunderstanding. Seeing the development of the LGBT identity

Posted in History LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Becoming Visible by Kevin Jennings

Kevin Jennings | Becoming Visible | Covering two thousand years and a wide range of cultures, this history reader brings gay men and lesbians out of hiding and into the classroom.

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Encyclopedia Of Lesbian Histories And Cultures: Volume 1 by Bonnie Zimmerman

Bonnie Zimmerman | Encyclopedia Of Lesbian Histories And Cultures: Volume 1 | 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