History Books


Francis Poulenc (Outlines) Best Price: $7.95 Richard Burton explores the fascinating world of early to mid-twentieth century artistic gay...	William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination Best Price: $39.95 William Burroughs is both an object of widespread cultural fascination and one of...	The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films--Their Stars, Makers, Characters, and Critics Best Price: $5.92 I believe this is Boze Hadleigh's best book on Gay and Lesbian Hollywood. It covers films with...	Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde's Devoted Friend Best Price: $21.37 Robbie Ross most certainly deserves acknowledgement for demonstrating true friendship to Oscar...	Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (Theories of Representation and Difference) Best Price: $8.84 applicable to literary theory as well. so well written, especially for a scholarly book! don't...



Truth Serum: A Memoir Best Price: $11.00 I almost didn't finish this book. My initial impression was that this guy's life is as dull and...	Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America Best Price: $16.50 We have waited for a voice within the gay community to relate what AIDS has done and continues...	A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture Best Price: $1.91 Fellows, Will. "A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture", University of...	The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial Best Price: $2.50 While car-crash victim Sharon Kowalski lay comatose in the hospital, battle lines were drawn...	Romance Revisited Best Price: $3.98 After decades of feminism and deconstruction, romance remains firmly in place as a central...



Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance Best Price: $10.45 Spicer and Ginsberg influenced one another, as is clearly shown in this book. Ginsberg stole a...	The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (Series Q) Best Price: $15.00 In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by...	Strapped for Cash: A History of American Hustler Culture Best Price: $13.10 chicago's loss is pittsburgh's gain. friedman is a great hagiographer. and while his book...	Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard Best Price: $3.98	Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages Best Price: $16.50 About 10,000 same-sex couples have wed in Massachusetts since 2003, when that state's Supreme...

Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West Best Price: $24.60 I found this book by accident while I was searching for books on women photographers. It was a...	Out of Order: Homosexuality in the Bible and the Ancient Near East Best Price: $50.50 Homosexuality is one of the most vexing moral issues facing the contemporary church. For...	Sapphic Art (Temptation Collection) Best Price: $1.79 The artwork collected here is direct enough. Most of it dates to the late-19th and early-20th...	Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant-Garde (Yale Publications in the History of Art) Best Price: $11.95 I was a little disappointed with the author's hamfisted attempts at interpretation here. The...	Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank There was a greatness there in these women, in that time. They loved Paris and France and the...

Tallulah Bankhead (Outlines (Bath, England).) Best Price: $6.95 IF I had BOUGHT this abysmal book; I would contemplate felony charges! Personally passionate...	Femme: Feminists, Lesbians and Bad Girls Best Price: $29.87 Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls alike will enjoy this book whether or not they identify as...	Out For Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America Best Price: $2.49 As both authors are press people, it is not surprising that the most consistent criticism of...	Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 Best Price: $20.85 Intimate Friends explores the fascinating history of the erotic friendships of educated English...	Coming Out: A Documentary Play About Gay Life and Liberation in the U.S.A. (Homosexuality) Best Price: $376.72

Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory Best Price: $97.37 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most important figures in the history of modern gender...	Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France Best Price: $25.17 Eight gay men wrote their autobiographies in French between 1845 and 1905; some of them...	The Erotic Whitman Best Price: $5.50 In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak...	The Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience Best Price: $26.37 Based on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobia is...	Gay Cuban Nation Best Price: $21.97 Emilio Bejel's sensible analyses of Cuban fiction (on page and screen) shows that the project of...

A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen	Caravaggio (BFI Modern Classics) Best Price: $6.00 Caravaggio (1986) is probably the closest Derek Jarman came to a mainstream film. Nevertheless,...	Now You See It: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Film Best Price: $92.80 I mostly bought this for information on the period 1970 - 1980 and would have liked more...	The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) Best Price: $2.73 Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics...	Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat Units Best Price: $12.75 Kaplan, Danny. "Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat...

Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past	The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire Best Price: $5.73 This book is well-written, which is why I give it 3 stars; but much of it is well-written...	The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema Best Price: $29.90 For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been...	Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971 (Film Studies) Best Price: $14.94	John Gay and the London Theatre Best Price: $20.00

A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) Best Price: $33.50 Saville makes the dangerous mistake of taking current fashions and imposing them on the 19th...	The Freddie Mercury Story: Living on the Edge Freddie Mercury's name is spelled correctly in this title. Just because some people may prefer...	Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema Best Price: $17.95 In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United...	Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas Best Price: $36.14 Gibson sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually made possible an ethical...	Desiring Arabs Best Price: $27.97 Like the Byzantines who viewed unveiled women as prostitues or lower class women and thus...

Homophobia: A History Best Price: $10.30 I agree with the Amazon review that the term "homophobia" is not used properly in this...	From the Closet to the Screen: Women at the Gateways Club 1945-85 Best Price: $14.94 The Gateways Club, at the heart of 1960s Swinging London, was one of the few places where...	Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory Best Price: $34.95 Brings provocative, rigorous and controversial readings of literary and cultural texts to gay...	Come Out Fighting: A Century of Essential Writing on Gay & Lesbian Liberation Best Price: $4.97 This anthology of writings on GLBT politics is certainly not the first nor will it be the last...	Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet Best Price: $6.00 This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues concerning gender and sexual...

Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia (Comparative Feminist Studies) Best Price: $65.00 The chapters in this book examine multiple resistances to particular sexual and gendered...	Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example Scholarly and exhaustive, this book will tell you more than you ever though possible about same...	Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) Best Price: $22.21 Cohler, Betram J. "Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography." The University...	Homosexuality and American Psychiatry Best Price: $24.99 This is an important book for anyone interested in how the diagnosis of homosexuality was...	In Jewish Texas: A Family Memoir Best Price: $3.95 Stanley Ely says that when the fiftieth or so person confronted him with a skeptical, "You...

Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800 (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Cultur) Best Price: $55.00	Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America Best Price: $19.95 On the coattails of "Colonialism and Homosexuality," a fascinating historical work by...	Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It Brett Millier pieces together the compelling and painful story of Bishop's life and traces the...	The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture Best Price: $3.94 Shand-Tucci's previous book on Isabella Stewart Gardner was a rare treat and provided helpful...	New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings (Between Men-Between Women Lesbian and Gay Studies) Best Price: $2.23 This volume explores whether there can be a specific lesbian aesthetic, juxtaposed against...

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