Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Atkins, Gary L.
Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging. University of Washington Press, 2003.
Baim, Tracy, ed.
Out and Proud in Chicago. Chicago: Surrey Books, 2008.
Berube, Allan
"Marching to a different drummer: lesbian and gay GIs in World War II",
orig. pub. 1981. Reprinted in Duberman et al., Hidden from History, 1989, pp. 383-94.
Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 (University of California Press, 2005). Traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history.
Brandt, Eric
Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays and the Struggle for Equality. New York: New Press, 1999.
"Christian brotherhood or sexual perversion?
Homosexual identities and the construction of sexual boundaries
in the World War One era", Journal of Social History, 19
(1985), 189-211. Repritned in Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson (eds), History of Homosexuality
in Europe and America,
New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp.
11-33. Reprinted in Duberman et al., Hidden from History, 1989, pp. 294-317.
Chauncey, George, Jr.
"From sexual inversion to homosexuality:
medicine and the changing conceptualization of female feviance",
Salmagundi (1982/83), 114-46.
"Gay politics and community in San Francisco since World War II",
orig. pub. in Socialist Review, 55 (January/February 1981), pp. 77-104.
Reprinted in Duberman et al., Hidden from History, 1989, pp. 456-73.
Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
Faderman, Lillian
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Drexel, Allen
"Before Paris burned: Race, class, and male homosexuality on the Chicago South Side, 1935-1960", in Brett Beemyn (ed.), Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories, New York: Routledge, 1997.
Duberman, Martin, Vicinus, Martha and Chauncey, George, Jr. (eds)
Gay Power: An American Revolution (Carroll & Graf, 2006). Gay Power chronicles the tumultuous first wave of the modern gay rights movement. From the first-ever gay student group launched at Columbia University in 1965 to the Gay Liberation Front, the Gay Activist Alliance, and other vanguard organizations that emerged from the Stonewall riots. Description and excerpt
Fellows, Will, ed.
Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
Gallo, Marcia M.
Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement. New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006.
Garber, Eric
"A spedtacle in color: the lesbian and gay subculture of Jazz Age Harlem",
in Duberman et al., Hidden from History, 1989, pp. 318-31.
Garber, Eric
"T'aint nobody's bizness: Homosexuality in 1920s Harlem",
in Leyland, Gay Roots (1991), 141-7.
The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of Jose Sarria. Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies. Routledge, 1998. Jose Sarria was the first man to run for political office in America as an openly gay man (10 years or so before Harvey Milk). He is the founder of the now international charity organization called "The Imperial Court System." He was a performer at the notorious Black Cat Cafe in San Francisco's Northbeach neighborhood. He is featured in the film "Before Stonewall."
"Male Homosexuals and Their 'Worlds'", in Marmor, J.
(ed.), Sexual Inversion: The Multiple Roots of Homosexuality.
New York: Basic Books, 1965, pp. 84-107.
Hooker, Evelyn
"The homosexual community", in J.H. Gagnon and
W.S. Simon (eds), Sexual Deviance. New York: Harper & Row,
1967, pp. 176-94.
Coming Out: A Documentary Play about Gay
Life and Liberation in the United States of
America. New York: Arno Press, 1975. Originally performed in 1973 in New York City.
Documents 22 incidents, including the Boise witch hunt,
the Stonewall resistance, the Snake Pit raid, and the Chicago
conspiracy trial. Persons dealt with include Willa Cather, Gertrude
Stein, Horatio Alger, Allen Ginsberg, and Walt Whitman.
Reflections on the American Homosexual Rights Movement. New York: Gay Academic Union, 1983.
Licata, Salvatore J.
"The homosexual rights movement in the United
States", in Licata and Petersen, The Gay Past (1985),
161-89 (orig. pub. 1980; partly based upon a doctorial
dissertation of 1978).
Lloyd, Robin
"The history of boy prostitution", in For Money or
Love: Boy Prostitution in America. New York: Vanguard Press,
1976, pp. 63-77 (chap. 6).
An Evening at the Garden of Allah:
A Gay Cabaret in Seattle. Columbia University Press, 1996.
Plummer, Kenneth (ed.)
The Making of the Modern
Homosexual. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1981.
Reay, Barry
New York Hustlers: Masculinity and Sex in Modern America. Manchester University Press, 2010. Focuses on the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, but which looks back to the earlier decades of the century and has a conclusion dealing with the 1970s to 1990s, maps the world of those known as 'trade' - ostensibly straight men who would engage in homosexual sex - and hustlers - those who were paid for it. It was a milieu that was central to the sexual histories of several generations of twentieth-century American men and also influenced American literary and visual culture; the 'trade aesthetic' informed the work of a variety of artists, filmmakers, and writers. This sexual culture, though compelling in itself, also allows us to explore some key aspects of modern sexual history. For the hustlers and trade exhibit a remarkably flexible sexuality, traversing the worlds of male homosexuality and heterosexuality in ways that challenge many assumptions about sexual identity.
Richlin, Amy
"Eros Underground: Greece and Rome in Gay Print Culture, 1953-65", Journal of Homosexuality (Harrington Park Press), 49 (3/4) (2005), pp. 421-461. An excellent survey of the building of intellectual community and identity through the use of print culture in the gay movement in the United States and Europe in the mid-twentieth century, particularly focusing on the study of classical history in the publications of ONE Institute, Los Angeles.
The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement. Boston : Alyson, 1990.
Wallace, David
A City Comes Out: The Gay and Lesbian History of Palm Springs. Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 2008.
Weiss, Andrea and Schiller, Greta
Before Stonewall: the Making of
a Gay and Lesbian Community. Naiad, 1988. (Weiss "explains how she
attempts to uncover `the visual artefacts of a largely invisible
subculture' through both national archive material (as represented by
the dominant heterosexual culture) and home movies, photo albums etc.
of lesbians and gay men." Also oral history and interviews with Barbara
Grier, Ann Bannon, Audre Lorde and Maua Adele Ajanaku.
White, C. Todd
Pre-Gay LA: A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
