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Non-fiction adult books about LGBT history are not generally shelved with other history books but rather can be found alongside books about the family, marriage, and women (HQ). Children's and Young Adult literature, both fiction and non-fiction, is also located on the 2nd Floor.
- HQ74 (bisexuality)
- HQ76.25 (history and development of gay culture)
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Selected books about...
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) and Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) were among the earliest gay rights activists. The following Gitenstein Library books tell the history of the modern Gay Liberation Movement from the mid-to-late nineteenth century in Germany, the era of Ulrichs and Hirschfeld, through to Stonewall and beyond. Read more about Ulrichs, Hirschfeld, and other early figures in Robert Beachy's article, "The German Invention of Homosexuality," published in The Journal of Modern History (vol. 82, no. 4), 2010.
Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement by Call Number: HQ18.32.H57 D67 2014ISBN: 9781583674376Publication Date: 2014-04-11
Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science by Call Number: HQ76.3.G42 L43 2020ISBN: 9780252040009Publication Date: 2016-03-22
Creating community:
Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s by Call Number: HQ76.25 .M44 2006ISBN: 0226517357Publication Date: 2006-03-15
Gay Power: An American Revolution by Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 E47 2006ISBN: 0786716339Publication Date: 2006-05-31
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 F33 2015ISBN: 9781451694116Publication Date: 2015-09-08Hailed as a "tour de force" by Choice, this book is "noted for the attention it pays to the dilemmas lesbians faced in both the (male-dominated) homophile-rights movement and the (straight-dominated) women’s movement" (Smithsonian).
Daughters of Bilitis:
Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rights of the Lesbian Rights Movement by Call Number: HQ75.6 .U5 G35 2006ISBN: 0786716347Publication Date: 2006-09-21
Mattachine Society:
Behind the Mask of the Mattachine by Call Number: HQ75.8.C34 S43 2006ISBN: 1560231874Publication Date: 2006-10-30
Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder by Call Number: HQ75.8.H39 A3 1996ISBN: 0807070807Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Berlin:
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Call Number: HQ76.2.G42 B43 2014ISBN: 0307272109Publication Date: 2014-11-18
Budapest:
Queer Budapest, 1873-1961 by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 022670565XPublication Date: 2020-09-07
Chicago:
Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics by Call Number: F548.9.G29 S74 2016ISBN: 9780812247916Publication Date: 2016-01-19
London:
London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 by Call Number: Internet Archive E-BOOKISBN: 0521822076Publication Date: 2003-10-23
Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 by Call Number: Internet Archive E-BOOKISBN: 0226354601Publication Date: 2005-09-03
Los Angeles:
Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians by Call Number: Q76.3.U52 C24 2006ISBN: 046502288XPublication Date: 2006-10-03
Multiple cities:
- Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 0415913896Publication Date: 1997-04-07
Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities by Call Number: PS169.H65 A37 2009ISBN: 0816638187Publication Date: 2009-01-30
Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories Since 1600 by Call Number: HQ76 .Q43 1999ISBN: 0415158982Publication Date: 1999-05-12
New York:
- Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town by Call Number: HQ75.6.U5N49 1993ISBN: 0807079278Publication Date: 1995-05-31
Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996 by Call Number: HQ76.3.U52 N486 1997ISBN: 0395657814Publication Date: 1997-11-17history of gay New York before and after Stonewall- Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by Call Number: HQ76.2.U52 N53 1994ISBN: 0465026338Publication Date: 1994-05-01seminal work in the historiography of gay men authored by respected Yale historian
Philadelphia:
City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 1592131301Publication Date: 2004-09-01
Provincetown:
Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort by Call Number: F74.P96 K73 2005ISBN: 0814747612Publication Date: 2005-06-01
San Francisco:
Wide-Open Town - A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 0520204158Publication Date: 2003-05-23
Washington, D.C.:
Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence by Call Number: HQ76.27.A37 B688 2018ISBN: 9780226589794Publication Date: 2018-12-21- Jeb and Dash by Call Number: HQ75.8.A74 A3 1993ISBN: 0571198171Publication Date: 1993-12-01early-to-mid twentieth century life chronicled through the diary of a gay man in Washington, D.C.
A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington D.C. by Call Number: HQ76.3.U52 W182 2015ISBN: 9780415735292Publication Date: 2014-07-07
Africa:
Love Falls on Us: A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives by Call Number: HQ76.8.A35 C67 2019ISBN: 9781786997081Publication Date: 2019-08-27
Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea From the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS by Call Number: HQ76.3.A356 E64 2008ISBN: 0821417983Publication Date: 2008-09-23
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9781108495905Publication Date: 2021-01-21- Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex In an African Society by Call Number: DT515.45.I33 A47 1987ISBN: 0862325943Publication Date: 1987-04-01
Unspoken Facts: A History of Homosexualities in Africa by Call Number: HQ75.16.A35 U68 2008ISBN: 9780797434837Publication Date: 2004-01-06
East Asia:
The Love of the Samurai: A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality by Call Number: HQ76.2.J3 W37 1989ISBN: 0854491155Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) by Call Number: HQ76.3.J3 L48 1997ISBN: 0520086279Publication Date: 1996-01-31
Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900-1950 by Call Number: HQ76.35.C6 K36 2009ISBN: 9789622099814Publication Date: 2009-03-06- Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 0585130736Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Native (and Latin) America:
Gay Indians in Brazil: Untold Stories of the Colonization of Indigenous Sexualities by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9783319532240Publication Date: 2017-05-22
Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture by Call Number: HQ76.3.A65 H67 2005ISBN: 0292712677Publication Date: 2006-01-02
Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures by Call Number: E98.S48 L3613 1998ISBN: 0292747012Publication Date: 1998-01-01
The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America by Call Number: HQ23 .P663 2010ISBN: 9780822960621Publication Date: 2010-05-24
Two Spirit People: American Indian, Lesbian Women and Gay Men by Call Number: E98.S48 T84 1997ISBN: 1560230894Publication Date: 1997-05-13
South and Southeast Asia:
Male Bodies, Women's Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth by Call Number: HQ77.95.T5 C67 2007ISBN: 0789031140Publication Date: 2007-02-06
Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society by Call Number: HQ76.2.I4 Q44 2002ISBN: 0415929504Publication Date: 2001-11-16
Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand by Call Number: HQ75.6.T5 S56 2004ISBN: 0824828526Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Ancient Mediterranean:
Bisexuality in the Ancient World by Call Number: HQ76.2.R6 C3613 2002ISBN: 0300093020Publication Date: 2002-03-11
A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9781118610657Publication Date: 2013-11-18see especially chapters 7 (Ancient Pederasty: An Introduction); 8 (Peer Homosexuality); 9 (Female Homoeroticism); and 36 (The Early Homophile Movement in Germany)
Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity In Classical Antiquity by Call Number: HQ76.2.R6 W56 1999ISBN: 0195113004Publication Date: 1999-06-10
Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens by Call Number: HQ13 .R64 2013ISBN: 9780748634132Publication Date: 2013-11-30see especially the chapter titled Same-sex relationships; also provides access to primary documents
Medieval Europe:
The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by Call Number: HQ76.3.E85 B67 2006ISBN: 0226457419Publication Date: 2006-03-01Scholars respond to Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (c1980).- Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People In Western Europe From the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by Call Number: HQ76.3.E8 B67ISBN: 0226067106Publication Date: 1980-06-01This classic secondary work is indispensable to the historiography of homosexuality in Europe.
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by Call Number: HQ76.3.E8 B68 1995ISBN: 0679751645Publication Date: 1995-05-30The influential Yale historian's follow-up to Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (c1980).
Renaissance and Early Modern Europe:
Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700) by Call Number: E-BOOK Coming Summer 2024ISBN: 9789004686175Publication Date: 2024
Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence by Call Number: HQ76.3.I82 F57 1996ISBN: 0195069757Publication Date: 1996-10-31
Homosexuality in Renaissance England by Call Number: HQ76.2.G7 B69 1995ISBN: 0231102895Publication Date: 1996-01-01- Queering the Renaissance by Call Number: HQ76.3.E8 Q44 1994ISBN: 0822313855Publication Date: 1993-12-13
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England by Call Number: HQ75.6.E5 T73 2002ISBN: 0521448859Publication Date: 2002-06-06
Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe by Call Number: HQ1034.R6 F47 2016ISBN: 9781501702372Publication Date: 2016-07-09
Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain's Golden Age by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 0802091393Publication Date: 2007-03-03
19th and 20th Centuries:
Peripheral Desires: The German Discovery of Sex by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9780812291865Publication Date: 2015-09-11
A Queer History of the United States by ISBN: 9780807044391Publication Date: 2011-05-10Bronski challenges the idea that lgbt people were not significantly part of the American fabric before Stonewall.
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Call Number: HQ76.3.E8 R63 2004ISBN: 039302038XPublication Date: 2004-01-01
Nazi persecution:
- The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals by Call Number: Internet Archive E-BOOKISBN: 0812827295Publication Date: 1980-06-01also available in print, General Collection (2nd floor), call # HQ76.2.G4 R4
- The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Call Number: Internet Archive E-BOOKISBN: 0805000593Publication Date: 1986-09-01also available in print, General Collection (2nd floor), call # HQ76.2.G4 P55 1986
Transgender histories:
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality In the United States by Call Number: HQ77.95.E85 M48 2002ISBN: 0674009258Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Transgender Warriors: Making History From Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Call Number: HQ77.9 .F44 1996ISBN: 0807079413Publication Date: 1997-06-30author is an "activist, journalist, and lecturer," not a professional historian
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