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George Chauncey

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by Basic Books (Paperback)
Winner of the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, this brilliant work challenges the conventional wisdom that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet.
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Michael Warner

The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life

by Free Press (Hardcover)
The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life

John Boswell

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

by University Of Chicago Press (Paperback)
John Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops and even canonized ...
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

Lillian Faderman

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men--Between Women)

by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback)
An account of lesbian life in the twentieth century traces the evolution of lesbian identity, discussing the establishment of lesbian subcultures in each decade, examines how feminism and gay liberation have destigmatized lesbianism, and more. Reprint.
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men--Between Women)

Neil Miller

Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present

by Advocate Books (Paperback)
A unique and hugely absorbing narrative history of gay life-from Oscar Wilde to the first gay marriage performed in San Francisco in 2004-by the award-winning journalist and distinguished author of Out in the World and Sex- Crime Panic. Miller accompanies his narrative ...
Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present

Gerald Clarke

Capote: A Biography

by Da Capo Press (Paperback)
Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the man who authored In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's, as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this absorbing, definitive biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New ...
Capote: A Biography

Catalina de Erauso, Michele Stepto, Catalina De Erauso, Gabri Stepto

Lieutenant Nun

by Beacon Press (Paperback)
Lieutenant Nun

Louis Crompton

Homosexuality and Civilization

by Belknap Press (Paperback)
How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he ...
Homosexuality and Civilization

The Transgender Studies Reader

by Routledge (Hardcover)
Although the term "transgender" itself has achieved familiarity only within the past decade, this authoritative collection of articles demonstrates that the study of behaviors, bodies, and subjective identities which contest common Eurocentric notions of gender has a history ...
The Transgender Studies Reader

Evan Bachner

Men of WW II: Fighting Men at Ease

by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Hardcover)
The long awaited follow up to the original At Ease presents 160 new, never before published photographs of WWII Navy men. These photos are not the combat photography we’re so accustomed to seeing; here are disarmingly winsome and playful pictures of sailors and soldiers at ...
Men of WW II: Fighting Men at Ease