History Books


Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States (The Cutting Edge : Lesbian Life and Literature) Best Price: $23.00 Americans have long held fast to a rigid definition of womanhood, revolving around husband,...	Speaking for Our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian Rights/1892-2000 Best Price: $69.95 Read the words they risked everything for! This landmark volume collects more than a hundred...	Still Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama Best Price: $12.87 Scholar John Clum's critical textual analysis of Gay Theatre, is not a historical account of the...	Love, Bourbon Street: A Celebration of Gay New Orleans Best Price: $3.62 Long a fan of Herren and spiritual resident of NOLA, this eclectic gathering of queer writings...	Caravaggio (BFI Modern Classics) Best Price: $6.00 Caravaggio (1986) is probably the closest Derek Jarman came to a mainstream film. Nevertheless,...



Adrienne Rich: Passion, Politics and the Body (Women of Ideas series) Best Price: $50.94 Adrienne Rich is one of the foremost women poets and theorists writing in America today. In this...	Sexual Shakespeare: Forgery, Authorship, Portraiture Best Price: $22.94	The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice & Folly in an American City (Columbia Northwest Classics) Best Price: $12.96 The Boys of Boise is one of those books that anyone interested in understanding the issues...	Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics Best Price: $17.78 Ann Eden Gibson's revelatory book takes a second look at American art history of the mid-to-late...	Ask & Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out Best Price: $18.00 Full disclosure: I am one of the veterans fetured in "Ask and Tell". I do not know...



Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past	Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Ideologies of Desire) This book does for twentieth-century American art what Vito Russo's "The Celluloid...	Come Out Fighting: A Century of Essential Writing on Gay & Lesbian Liberation Best Price: $4.96 This anthology of writings on GLBT politics is certainly not the first nor will it be the last...	The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party Best Price: $64.95 The fact that there is not even a photo for this book, and the fact that it is so hard to find...	We 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...

Lament: Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond Best Price: $57.10 Lament seems to have been universal in the ancient world. As such, it is an excellent touchstone...	Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside Popular Film) Best Price: $66.37 This is an excellent book and the only full volume on the subject. Horror reveals our...	A Future for Astyanax	Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Best Price: $19.00 Because I have grown up in a heterosocial era, John Donald Gustav-Wrathall's study of the Young...	Queer America: A GLBT History of the 20th Century Best Price: $64.84 In these opening years of the 21st century in the United States, perhaps no topic is more...

Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out Best Price: $17.50 Versed in the theories of Foucault and post-colonialist writers, Griffin does a wonderful job of...	Gay and Lesbian Washington D.C. (DC) (Images of America) Best Price: $15.99 In the identity of gay and lesbian America, Washington, D.C., has a history, perhaps unknown,...	Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition Best Price: $18.90 The person stating there are no sources is quite wrong. There are several sources that support...	The Portable Queer: Homo History: A Compilation of Events that Shook and Shaped the Gay World (The Portable Queer) Best Price: $7.37 McHugh, Erin. "Homo History: A Compilation of Events that Shook and Shaped the Gay...	Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present Best Price: $5.50 What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the...

Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford Best Price: $26.96 The ABSOLUTE must read for all in the LGBT community. Presents to artistic/political struggle...	Men Like That: A Southern Queer History Best Price: $11.80 I had to write a short review on this book. Seeing as I am a current (and lifelong) gay...	Scandinavian Homosexualities: Essays on Gay and Lesbian Studies Best Price: $89.95 Drawing on his extensive experience in working with gay and lesbian youth, Gerald P. Mallon has...	Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America Best Price: $8.82 As both authors are press people, it is not surprising that the most consistent criticism of...	Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico Best Price: $22.82 "Garza Carvajal's fascinating and thought-provoking book effectively analyzes the...

The Loyal Opposition: Struggling With the Church on Homosexuality Best Price: $5.99 Rev. Sample and Amy Delong did a thoughtful, thought-provoking job of editing this book. My...	The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (Gender and Culture) Best Price: $5.69 Terry Castle writes with irreverence, responsibility, and respect for the role of lesbians in...	Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn't Best Price: $16.69 In the early twentieth century, marriage manuals sought to link marital sex to the progress of...	The Invention of Heterosexuality Best Price: $14.09 Though I confess to some sympathy towards the "queer essentialist" side of the ledger,...	Ralston Crawford: Painting and Visual Experience Best Price: $26.99

What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution Best Price: $0.01 This well-researched, well-written and overall stunningly crafted book will knock any...	Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) Best Price: $13.15 This book pulls you in from the beginning. It's not a dry history but a witty and sharp look at...	Homosexuality and American Psychiatry Best Price: $28.86 This is an important book for anyone interested in how the diagnosis of homosexuality was...	Bringing Lesbian And Gay Rights into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context) (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context) Best Price: $29.72 A lively memoir of LGBT activist Steve Endeanone of the most influential political...	Homoaffectionalism: Male Bonding from Gilgamesh to the Present Best Price: $21.50 This is a very interesting book to read for everybody including young students. However, I...

Parker & Hulme: A Lesbian View Best Price: $6.90 The Evil Friendship (1954) was the first book about this case, written by VIN PACKER. It will...	Gay Power: An American Revolution Best Price: $2.50 Here is a sweeping, comprehensive account of the Gay Leap Forward. In his groundbreaking...	Same-Sex Marriage (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America) Best Price: $44.00 Phy-Olsen has surely produced the best book on same-sex marriage to date. Her book covers the...	The Crucifixion of Hyacinth: Jews, Christians, and Homosexuals from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity Best Price: $8.72 This book presents a brief sketch of changing attitudes toward homosexuality in the western...	Understanding Carson Mccullers (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) Best Price: $18.95 Updated with a discussion of recent scholarship, Understanding Carson McCullers provides a ...

Confessions of the Letter Closet: Epistolary Fiction and Queer Desire in Modern Spain Best Price: $67.50 By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with...	Damn Fine Art by New Lesbian Artists: By New Lesbian Artists (Sexual Politics) Best Price: $8.80	The Judith Butler Reader Best Price: $30.00 The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace...	Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture Best Price: $16.95 Doty's volume is very popular. Here he analyzes various forms of mass culture, from the Jack...	New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain, 1968-1990 (Cultural Margins) Best Price: $10.00 The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a ground-breaking study of racism and...

Open Secret: Gay Hollywood--1928-2000 Best Price: $14.99 This book lifts a veil on a still rather taboo issue. A lot of well known people are mentioned...	Sapphic Primitivism: Productions of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Key Works of Modern Fiction Best Price: $22.95 Robin Hackett examines portrayals of race, class, and sexuality in modernist texts by white...	Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence Best Price: $14.20	Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity (Ideologies of Desire) Best Price: $91.20 Ancient Rome merits a contemporary investigation of its attitudes towards sexuality and...	Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures & American Literature Best Price: $3.97 Impossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian...

The Unfinished Revolution: Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies) Best Price: $10.00 I'm surprised that Cambridge University Press would have published this very weak study of...	Historical, Literary, and Erotic Aspects of Lesbianism Best Price: $0.51 In this thought-provoking book on lesbian history, literature, and sexuality, a diverse group of...	Invented Moralities Best Price: $18.17 Working from what he calls a radical humanist perspective, Weeks looks at sexual mores in these...

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