History Books


New Queer Cinema: A Critical ReaderNew Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader
Best Price: $24.31
Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, "New Queer Cinema"...
Coming Out Under FireComing Out Under Fire
Best Price: $15.16
The value of this book lies in its compilation of first-person, firsthand stories from WWII...
Strangers to OurselvesStrangers to Ourselves
Best Price: $15.00
The most interesting sections of this work are the earliest chapters; Kristeva seems to run out...
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian ModernityWomen with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
Best Price: $19.85
This is book is discussing how Iranian ladies took active role in shaping Iran's fabric of...
Gay Life & Culture: A World HistoryGay Life & Culture: A World History
Best Price: $30.70
This collection of intriguing articles by highly reputable academics is an seminal work,...


The Truth About Homosexuality: The Cry of the FaithfulThe Truth About Homosexuality: The Cry of the Faithful
Best Price: $10.86
I strongly reccomend to read this book. It is a continuation of father Harveys earlier...
Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay MythAnything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth
Best Price: $0.56
Anything But Straight is a seminal work exposing the lies, bad science and just plain...
Bringing Lesbian And Gay Rights into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context) (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context)Bringing Lesbian And Gay Rights into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context) (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context)
Best Price: $29.44
A lively memoir of LGBT activist Steve Endean—one of the most influential political...
Gay Power: An American RevolutionGay Power: An American Revolution
Best Price: $2.99
Here is a sweeping, comprehensive account of the Gay Leap Forward. In his groundbreaking...
Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Radical Perspectives)Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Radical Perspectives)
Best Price: $19.47
In Finding the Movement , Anne Enke reveals that diverse women’s engagement with...


Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys were their GodsImages of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys were their Gods
Best Price: $92.00
Lear and Cantarella have produced a great cross-over volume. They make a serious contribution...
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic DocumentsHomosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents
Best Price: $34.25
Thomas Hubbard has produced the most significant anthology about Greek and Roman homosexuality...
The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and SocietyThe Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society
Best Price: $20.94
The Age of Beloveds offers a rich introduction to early modern Ottoman culture through a study...
Late 19th Century Furniture by Berkey & Gay (Schiffer Book for Collectors)Late 19th Century Furniture by Berkey & Gay (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Best Price: $25.16
B&G went out of business in 1948 so stock is worthless except for maybe collectible value
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Critical American Studies Series)Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Critical American Studies Series)
Best Price: $15.00
In this brilliant book, Rod Ferguson interrogates canonical sociologys' regulation of sexual...

The Politics of Gay Rights (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)The Politics of Gay Rights (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)
Best Price: $22.50
Most anything from University of Chicago Press is likely to be of high quality, and this...
AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral HistoryAIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History
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When the AIDS epidemic first broke out in 1981, many doctors did not participate in the...
Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay HagiographySaint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography
Best Price: $19.95
This book is probably the best book on how to ground and use Foucault in relation to...
Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern NarrativeBody Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative
Best Price: $39.90
The desire to know the body is a powerful dynamic of storytelling in all its forms. Peter Brooks...
Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex LoveJesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love
Best Price: $16.95
Scholarship of this magnitude deserves to be, and should have been, published by one of our ...

We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian PoliticsWe Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics
Best Price: $30.00
Interest in GLBT politics and a consequent recognition that I (like most Americans) had very...
A History of Gay Literature: The Male TraditionA History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition
Best Price: $12.00
If your interest in gay literature is just starting (and there is no need anymore to explain...
Bringing Lesbian And Gay Rights into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context) (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context)Bringing Lesbian And Gay Rights into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context) (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context)
Best Price: $29.44
A lively memoir of LGBT activist Steve Endean—one of the most influential political...
Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)
Best Price: $19.96
In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met,...
A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in AmericaA Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America
Best Price: $19.97
I purchased this book for a gender studies class and upon attempting to read it, realized that...

Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
Best Price: $25.97
El-Rouayheb looks at writings over 300 years in the Arab world to refute ideas that all forms...
Bisexuality in the Ancient WorldBisexuality in the Ancient World
Best Price: $10.76
First the problems. When a scholar uses such a wide range of sources, it is inevidentual that...
The Best Little Boy in the World Grows UpThe Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up
Best Price: $4.99
I found "The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up" well-written, insightful and...
Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and LiteratureIslamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature
Best Price: $19.80
I wholeheartedly agree with some of the previous critiques of this book. Islamic cultures...
Greek Homosexuality: Updated and with a new PostscriptGreek Homosexuality: Updated and with a new Postscript
Best Price: $20.75
Dover reopened in Greek Homosexuality (1978) the study by classicists of a subject disdained...

Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and LiteratureIslamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature
Best Price: $19.80
I wholeheartedly agree with some of the previous critiques of this book. Islamic cultures...
Greek Homosexuality: Updated and with a new PostscriptGreek Homosexuality: Updated and with a new Postscript
Best Price: $20.75
Dover reopened in Greek Homosexuality (1978) the study by classicists of a subject disdained...
Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian OxfordHellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford
Best Price: $19.95
The ABSOLUTE must read for all in the LGBT community. Presents to artistic/political struggle...
Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American CinemaQueer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Best Price: $22.94
Williams Fosters analyzes Latino gay and lesbian movies. He has an expansive view of the genre;...
Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa JapanMale Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan
Best Price: $22.00
I bought this book last year when I was doing a study on the construction of modern Japan, and I...

Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (Meridian)Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (Meridian)
Best Price: $16.95
This book is chockful of great monographs on gay and lesbian history. After a world-shaking...
History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous: From the Beginning (Haworth Series in Family and Consumer Issues in Health)History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous: From the Beginning (Haworth Series in Family and Consumer Issues in Health)
Best Price: $17.28
As a history of recovery programs, Borden has provided unique insight into the development and...
Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the PaperbackQueer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback
Best Price: $6.74
Taking a similar tact to Michael Bronski's epochal PULP FRICTION, ace historian Stryker parlays...
The Invention of HeterosexualityThe Invention of Heterosexuality
Best Price: $14.09
Though I confess to some sympathy towards the "queer essentialist" side of the ledger,...
We Boys Together: Teenagers in Love Before Girl-CrazinessWe Boys Together: Teenagers in Love Before Girl-Craziness
Best Price: $22.46
Teenage boys are wild about girls.When their hormones kick in at puberty, they can think of...

The Queen of Whale CayThe Queen of Whale Cay
Best Price: $5.76
Joe Carstairs comes off as a fascinating study of what it was like to be a moneyed lesbian...
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. MilitaryConduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military
Best Price: $2.25
The definitive book on lesbians and gay men in the US military. Randy Shilts, author of...
?Entiendes?: Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings (Series Q)?Entiendes?: Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings (Series Q)
Best Price: $15.27
This is an extraordinary book and a landmark for serious Gay and Lesbian Studies in Literature....
Wild Heart, a Life: Natalie Clifford Barney's Journey from Victorian America to the Literary Salons of ParisWild Heart, a Life: Natalie Clifford Barney's Journey from Victorian America to the Literary Salons of Paris
Best Price: $2.50
If you are looking for a deep, penetrative, and thorough look at a woman described as a...
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American ModernitySapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
Best Price: $13.94
Many people know about the case of Lizzie Borden, the woman accused of killing her parents in...

How to Do the History of HomosexualityHow to Do the History of Homosexuality
Best Price: $19.93
There seems to be some confusion regarding who David Halperin is and what he has written. ...
Sexuality (Oxford Readers)Sexuality (Oxford Readers)
Best Price: $29.39
Sexuality has always been a rather obsessive human concern. Although it has been the true...
Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of GenderChanging Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender
Best Price: $18.49
In my opinion, Ms. Hausman's book is an outstanding read that looks crtitically not at the...
Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950sSex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s
Best Price: $4.70
Despite its rather sensational title, "Sex-Crime Panic" tells a cautionary story about...
Wrestling RealityWrestling Reality
Best Price: $16.47
Chris Kanyon wrestled for nine years in the WCW and WWE, winning the WCW United States...

Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of GenderChanging Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender
Best Price: $18.49
In my opinion, Ms. Hausman's book is an outstanding read that looks crtitically not at the...
Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950sSex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s
Best Price: $4.70
Despite its rather sensational title, "Sex-Crime Panic" tells a cautionary story about...
Wrestling RealityWrestling Reality
Best Price: $16.47
Chris Kanyon wrestled for nine years in the WCW and WWE, winning the WCW United States...
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A HistoryTo Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
Best Price: $1.67
Lillian Faderman is, hands down, THE best researcher and writer of lesbian American history...
Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Series Q)Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Series Q)
Best Price: $8.90
Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The...

A Mind of One's Own (2nd Edition)A Mind of One's Own (2nd Edition)
Best Price: $25.00
A book of tremendous influence when it first appeared, A Mind of One's Own reminded readers...
World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender (Modern Library)World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender (Modern Library)
Best Price: $3.98
I like Stephen Spender. That is, of course, I like his poetry that I've read as well as his...
HeroesHeroes
Best Price: $19.00
Further down, someone - presumably dissatisfied by the fact that John Pilger doesn't try to...
Memoir of a Race TraitorMemoir of a Race Traitor
Best Price: $8.00
Growing up in the so-called 'post civil' rights era with intergrated schooling, myself and other...
Wearing History: T-Shirts from the Gay Rights MovementWearing History: T-Shirts from the Gay Rights Movement
Best Price: $11.42
I purchased this book along with a couple of other t-shirt books for inspiration for my...
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