Queer History Links LINKS TO THE BEST SITES ON THE WEB FOR GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY Updated 12 October 2008 | General GLBT History | GLBT History by Periods | Regional GLBT History | Transgender History | Lesbian History | Black GLBT History | Language and Literary History | Cinema and Theatre History | Galleries with Historical GLBT Images | See also separate pages on Book Reviews and Biographies GENERAL GLBT HISTORY An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture Outstanding, comprehensive resource Homolexis Glossary compiled by Wayne R. Dynes GLBT (Queer) History Extensive list of internet links, plus Abstracts of Theses and Articles, plus Summaries of Ph.D. Dissertations Gay History, Gay Celebrities, Gay Icons Teaching "Straight" Gay and Lesbian History by Nancy C. Unger (reprinted from The Journal of American History 93 (March 2007), pp. 1192–99). LGBT Religious Archives Network documenting the history of LGBT religious movements A History of Gay History Queer Heritage: A Timeline — a good chronology of queer history Gay History A series of interesting and in-depth articles by Adam Carr previously published in gay journals Sodomy Laws Around the World A comprehensive survey, with interesting historical essays QueerTheory.com Online resources in Queer Culture, Queer Theory, Queer Studies, Gender Studies and related fields Critiques of the modern use of the word "queer" The Denial of Gay History, a critique of social constructionism by Paul Varnell Lesbian and Gay Studies Project People with a History (Once excellent, but not updated since 1998) The World History of Male Love Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals in History Gay Culture and History Gay Chronicles from the Beginning to 1944 Gay Chronicles 1945 to 1970 (mainly USA) New York Public Library Gay and Lesbian Studies Research Guide Gayhistory.com Extensive survey of gay history, but not updated since 2000 Committee on Lesbian and Gay History. Has an interesting colelction of syllabuses on the subject of gay and lesbian history, e.g. The History Problem in Lesbian and Gay Studies Gay and Lesbian Heritage by Bruce Britton. One of the most trustworthy and detailed lists of famous gays and lesbians on the Web, though mainly in the fields of music, art and literature Gay Heroes Not very scholarly, but fun, e.g. Was Lincoln Gay? Homosexual and Bisexual Rulers (a list of 72 rulers, with dates) Famous GLBT People Comprehensive illustrated and generally trustworthy list, with longer biographies of Horatio Alger, Antinous, Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Lord Byron, Caravaggio, Cecil Rhodes, Benvenuto Cellini, Jean Cocteau, Correggio, Emily Dickinson, Lord Alfred Douglas, Edward II, Andre Gide, George Friedrich Handel, Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin, Alexander von Humboldt, T. E. Lawrence, Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Antoinette, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, and others A-Z of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual People Detailed information about almost 700 gays, with hundreds of portraits. Good European coverage, especially comprehensive on Dutch figures, and people from the world of popular entertainment Famous Same-Sex Couples Interesting survey of famous same-sex couples in history, and today, part of the Partners Task Force for Gay & Lesbian Couples GLBT HISTORY BY CHRONOLOGICAL PERIODS The Tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep Ancient Egyptian manicurists who may have been the earliest recorded gay couple Greek Homosexuality. Illustrated article by Hein van Dolen, a good introduction to new understandings of the subject Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents in Translation, ed. by Thomas K. Hubbard, with hundreds of illustrations, showing that equal-age homosexual relations were as popular as pederastic relations. Homosexuality and the Bible, comprehensive analysis of biblical texts and modern interpretation A Problem in Greek Ethics, the complete text of John Addington Symonds's pioneering study of 1901 The Historic Origins of Church Condemnation of Homosexuality Homosexuality, Intolerance, and Christianity Extensive critique and commentary on the work of gay scholar John Boswell concerning the early Christian attitude to homosexuality Sodomitical Cultures Emerge Has three very good articles on 18th-cent. Paris, London and Amsterdam. Eighteenth-Century British Erotica Facsimile collection from Pickering & Chatto, including some homoerotic works Secret Sexualities A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th century writing on sexuality Offences Against One's Self Essays on Homosexuality by Jeremy Bentham, 18th cent. Edward Carpenter Archives Important works by the pioneer British gay activist Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), edited by Simon Dawson Simeon Solomon Research Archive by Roberto C. Ferrari, about the Victorian painter convicted for homosexual acts. Biography; annotated bibliography of works by him and reviews of works about him; links to websites illustrating his art Fanny and Stella: Newspaper reports about the notorious Victorian case of two cross-dressing men, Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park A Problem in Modern Ethics, the complete text of John Addington Symonds's study of 1896 Hall-Carpenter Archives of British LGBT history, with a comprehensive list of links to European LGBT archives Gay Antiquarian Catalogue Stonewall and Beyond: Lesbian and Gay Culture (Book Exhibition) REGIONAL GLBT HISTORY AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND Meeting Nineteenth-Century Gay Man Review of homosexual trials in 19th-century Australia BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL Homosexuality in Brazil and Portugal Website of scholar-activist Luiz Mott, with many articles (in Portuguese) on the homosexual history of Brazil and Portugal, back to the Renaissance period, and bibliographies A Pedophile in the Palace: or The Sexual Abuse of King Sebastian of Portugal (1554-1578) and its Consequences (2004), by Harold B. Johnson Might Prince Henry 'The Navigator' have been gay?, by Harold B. Johnson CANADA Alexander "Molly" Wood, 1722-1844 Involved in a sex scandal in 1810, became a historical icon for the modern Toronto gay community Reflections on Early Canada, part 1: Changing Attitudes Towards Homosexuality in the Late 19th Century, followed by further parts in later blogs at The Drummer's Revenge Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives EGYPT GayEgypt.com The history of homosexuality in Egypt from ancient through modern times FINLAND SQS: Finnish Journal of Queer Studies (includes some articles in English) FRANCE Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century France Translations from criminal archives by Jim Chevallier (scan down the opening page to the section on Sodomy) Portraying Male Same-Sex Desire in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Pierre Loti's "Aziyade" Cabinet de Philosophie Works by the French gay historian Claude Courouve (in French), especially interesting for his focus on French gay history, including examples from "Dictionnaire historique de l'homosexualité masculine" Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen (1880-1923) Biography of the French writer (in English) Catalogue bibliographique gay et lesbien Bibliographical guide to gay and lesbian history, culture and literature (mainly French), often with extensive annotations, together with illustrations of covers and portraits of authors GERMANY Jan Magnusson's Bibliography of GLBTQ Literature since 1800. Especially good on German literature; links to mainly German sites. Gay History Projects by Klaus Miller, including audiovisual material, with links to resources Anna Louisa Karsch (1722-1791) Biography of "the German Sappho" Invertito: Yearbook for the Study of Homosexual History (in German, but with English summaries) Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 175 Years of Pride Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals An Annotated Bibliography of Nonfiction Sources in English, but not updated since Aug. 2000 Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945. Outstanding exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Site INDIA Homosexuality and Hinduism by Ruth Vanita Homosexuality and Our Forefathers, a brief history of homosexuality in India, by Kanika Goswami IRELAND Gay Belfast History ITALY Sito di Giovanni Dall'Orto Outstanding collection of writings (in Italian) on gay history, especially focusing on Renaissance Italy, with more than fifty detailed biographies, highly illustrated, plus documents and links Donatello's David, a free online gay historical novel about the origin on Donatello's David set in 15th-century Florence JAPAN Japanese History for Gay Men A good introduction to Japanese homosexual history, with examples from early Japanese gay literature such as stories by Ihara Saikaku, and more modern authors such as Yukio Mishima MEXICO Chronology of Mexican Gay History The MIDDLE EAST Outcast Heroes: the story of gay Muslims The NETHERLANDS Gay History of Amsterdam RUSSIA Russian physique photography Russian laws against homosexuality Russian Gay Culture History of Homosexuality in Russia Available in Russian only. I am told this is a very good site, with a full bibliography SOUTH AFRICA Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa (GALA) with occasional exhibitions and projects accessible on the web SPAIN Daniel Eisenberg's site has many articles on homosexuality in early modern Spain, some in Spanish SWEDEN Swedish gay history and literature, bibliography of studies by Jan Magnusson TURKEY Diseased States: Sotadic Zones, Hot Zones, and Torrid Zones by Robert W. Anderson; analysis of the perception of homosexuality in Turkey by Victorian travellers Alexander William Kinglake, William Wittman, Sir Richard Burton, and 18th cent. traveller Lady Mary Wortley Montagu re lesbian sexuality in Turkey UNITED KINGDOM Timeline of Lesbian and Gay History in the UK With Downcast Gays by Andrew Hodges and David Hutter, the 1974 British Gay Liberation pamphlet Gay Birmingham Remembered The Gay History of Cambridge University (part of the LGBT Month 2008 celebrations) Out There Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) history portal project, created by the National Archives and London Metropolitan Archives, providing links to archives in the United Kingdom holding LGBT material Archives Hub collections of material relation to gay and lesbian history in the United Kingdom Lesbian and Gay Research in UK Universities and Colleges Nottingham & Notts Lesbian & Gay Switchboard History Project with a history of gay and lesbian clubs in the area, and many pictures of gay activism since 1967 Edward Carpenter's biography of George Merrill. Edward Carpenter's biography of his working-class lover George Merrill is now on the web, at the site devoted to the English social/sexual reformer Edward Carpenter. It's a transcription of the typscript/manuscript at the Sheffield Carpenter Archives (never before published). Carpenter and Merrill were virtually a "married couple" for 14 years, and were friends for more then 25 years. It's a rare and fascinating account of a nineteenth-century gay working-class life, up to the First World War. The Trials of Oscar Wilde Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month (Britain) The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth Century Britain Book reviews by Roy Porter Brighton Ourstory Project, especially A History of Brighton's Lesbian & Gay Community Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered History in documents held at the Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York, including the story of Barbara Hill, who married another woman in 1757, and the story of Edward Hewitson, who had sexual relations with men over a 14-year period at the beginning of the 16th century, and material on Anne Lister the lesbian diarist of the early 19th century. Gay and Lesbian History at the National Archives: An Introduction A Short History of the Campaign for Homosexuality Equality by Allan Horsfall, with links to other articles on gay campaigning in England in the 1960s and earlier UNITED STATES OutHistory.org Documenting the LGBTQH past in the U.S.A. See especially the numerous source documents gathered by Jonathan Ned Katz about Colonial America: The Age of Sodomitical Sin 1607-1776 A brief history of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73 Gay Liberation Front A collection of primary documents made available by John Lauritsen History of the GLBT Movement in San Francisco Voices West: Sex in the West: Cowboy-related documents about male-male relations in the American Wild West, in the form of a bibliography, illustrated with suggestives covers from cowboy novels The Richard Cornish Endowment Fund, established in 1993 as a source of funding for the acquisition of gay and lesbian resources for the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Several historical articles, and lists of publications Making Homosexuality Healthy: The Work of Evelyn Hooker (1907-1996) Male-Male Intimacy among Nineteenth-century Mormons: A Case Study, by D. Michael Quinn, in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 28 (4) (Winter 1995): 105-28. Gay Marriage, Brooklyn Style, 1820 The Pink and the Blue: Lesbian and Gay Life at Yale and in Connecticut, 1642-2004, exhibition curated by Jonathan Ned Katz LeavesOfGrass.Org Celebrating the life and work of Walt Whitman Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project Sexual minority history in the Seattle area and the Pacific Northwest, with life stories, and guidelines for transcribing oral history interviews One Institute Gay and Lesbian Archives USA Our Homosocial Constitution: Some Sexual and Political Themes in Paintings Admired by the Founding Fathers, by Alan Hyde. An interesting sexual-political analysis of homosocial paintings, such as David's Oath of the Horatii, admired by politicians such as Jefferson and Madison Chronology of California Gay History Chronology of Florida Gay History Artifacts & Disclosures: Michigan's LGBT Heritage A virtual exploration of the real lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trangender people from over 100 years of Michigan history. The History of Gay Bathhouses by Eddie Coronado. Detailed and well illustrated history of American gay bathhouses since the 1950s, with legendary New York bathhouses. History of Gay Bars Before Stonewall (in MS Word) TRANSGENDER HISTORY Contesting Cultural Norms: Cross-Dressing Publisher's description with extensive excerpts from two books published in 1620, Hic Mulier and Haec-Vir Article on the sexologist Vern Bullough on Transgender News Gender Variant Biography blog General Resources Extensive links to web resources The In-betweens, a history of eunuchs in India, by Kanika Goswami Born Eunuchs: Homosexual Identity in the Ancient World A Comparative Study of Male Transvestites, Male to Female Transsexuals, and Male Homosexuals by Vern Bullough, Bonnie Bullough and Richard Smith Visible Man Essay on transgender history and experience by Jamison Green Historic and Mythic Transgender Figures Transgender figures such as Joan of Arc, Julian Eltidge, Leslie Feinberg The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe Review of the book by Rudolf M. Dekker and Lotte C. van de Pol Transgender Warriors Review of the book by Leslie Feinberg Queer Play: The Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama, by Robert L.A. Clark and Claire M. Sponsler Don't Call Me Madam The life of Ray Bourbon, early drag performer who worked with Mae West, with sound clips from the 1940s LESBIAN HISTORY Film and video reviews for lesbian and bisexual movies Strange Sisters An archive of lesbian paperback artwork from the 1950s and 1960s A Sojourn in Paris 1824-25: Sex and Sociability in the Manuscript Writings of Anne Lister (1791-1840), by Dannielle Orr, PhD Dissertation, Murdoch University, Australia, 2006. Complete text The Old Dyke. Excellent series of essays on lesbian history and women's history, including detailed history of the Daughters of Bilitis, Ethel Smyth, the Gateways Club, The Ladies of Llangollan, Mercedes de Acosta, and many other subjects Lesbians and the Third Reich at the United States Holocaust Memorial Site Pseudonymity, Passing, and Queer Biography: The Case of Mary Diana Dods by Geraldine Friedman. Good article on an early 19th-century woman who passed as a man. The Hannah Snell Homepage The life and times of the famous eighteenth-century cross-dresser, with an extensive catalogue of female cross-dressers from all periods and countries. Extracts from Matthew Stephens's book Hannah Snell: The Secret Life of a Female Marine, 1723-1792 Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture by Laura Doan (interview) Lesbianism in the Eighteenth Century A Univeristy of Michigan students' project Herstory: Lesbians in the Arts Swade's Tribal Chant: A timeline of lesbian history Lesbian Identity and the Politics of Butch Femme: A Butch-Femme Annotated Bibliography Very comprehensive and useful for a wide range of lesbian historical issues Lesbian Poetry by Women Sappho's Legacy The Life of Marie Louise Pool, biography published in 1899 about a woman who we can now see was almost certainly a lesbian Women in the Shadows An illustrated and annotated bibliography of lesbian pulp novels, with some discussion Lesbian Mormon History A short historical essay Historical Lesbian Couples A good resource for portraits Female-female desire in Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia Female friendship in early modern England Women's Friendship and the Refusal of Lesbian Desire in Spenser's The Faerie Queene BLACK GLBT HISTORY The Blackstripe Archives Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People of African Descent, with articles on black LGBT history LANGUAGE AND LITERARY HISTORY [See also Links to Book Reviews] GANYMEDE: Gay Mens’ Culture from New York, literary and cultural journal Gay on the Range An archive of gay paperback artwork from the 1950s and 1960s Male Love Among the Romantics including essays by John Lauritsen on Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and others in their circle Reviews of Gay Historical Fiction at Speaks Its Name The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley including White Staines and The Scented Garden Chronological Survey of Gay and Lesbian Literature, with a very good list and description of Recommended LGBT Books Gay Literature in Taiwan (a PDF file) Gay Pulp Fiction A searchable database of more than 4,500 titles at Brown University Library Lesbian Fiction Herstory, series of illustrated articles on the history of lesbian fiction, by Lori Lake Gay Slang Dictionary compiled by Robert Scott, the most extensive online gay slang dictionary Polari Dictionary, dictionary of gay slang used in Britain in the 1960s and earlier One Person's Truth: The Life and Work of Paul Monette (1945-1995) Essays on Lesbian Literature by Nicki Hastie, including Lesbian eXcursions: Journeying through the personal narrative Homosexual Themes in Ottoman Court Poetry Gay Theory and Criticism The Johns Hopkins University Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Plus Lesbian Theory and Criticism The Paperback Explosion: How Gay Paperbacks Changed America by Ian Young Homophile Studies An annotated catalogue of books on gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersexual and transgender literature, art and history Literary Historiography and the Gay Common Reader by Gregory Woods Teaching Queer Literature: A Bibliography Bibliography of 16th-18th cent. homosexual literature, especially rich in German sources Stricken Deer: Secrecy, Homophobia, and the Rise of the Suburban Man by Andrew Elfenbein; long analysis of homophobia in 19th century England, with a particular focus on William Cowper's poem "The Task" and the possibility that Cowper was a closet homosexual. See also a review of Elfenbein's book Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role Teaching Queer Men's Poetry: A Resource List Marie Corelli and her Occult Tales by Jessica Amanda Salmonson Greece and Homosexual Identity in Edmund White's "An Oracle" Defusing the Discharged Soldier: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Homosexual Panic Lawrence Durrell's 'The Alexandra Quartet': The Homosexual as Teacher/Guide The 10 Most Hated Books— Censorhip of Gay and Lesbian Literature Among gay and lesbian titles that have been banned, censored, and suppressed, these ten have earned special distinction Homosexual Literature since 1800, a selection of web links compiled by Jan Magnusson, mainly northern European, organized chronologically by author CINEMA AND THEATRE HISTORY History of Censorship in the British Theatre Exhibition at the British Library, 2008 Frameline, distributor of LGBT media to the educational market and beyond. Commercial site, but good reviews of films. Mainly American. Queer Cinema Reviews of films which contain main or supporting characters who are identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender Gay Movie History with detailed information about more than 100 gay movies GALLERIES WITH HISTORICAL IMAGES Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, with extensive list of links Gay on the Range An archive of gay paperback artwork from the 1950s and 1960s Strange Sisters An archive of lesbian paperback artwork from the 1950s and 1960s An Interview with Steve Reeves Beefcake Babylon: The Iconography of Sword and Sandal Epics Beefcake Babylon part 2 Beefcake Babylon part 3 Beefcake Babylon video tour Physique Photography and the Cult of Hercules Vintage 1950s Beefcake on YouTube Man without Clothes A historical look at the depiction of naked men in art. Antinous Portraits A virtual museum of hundreds of statues of Antinous, lover of the Emperor Hadrian, with detailed information about provenance. Fallen Warriors as Mass Media Stars An intriguing study of the homoerotic imagery of depictions of warriors in eighteenth-century Japan, with illustrations Out of the Closet A fascinating survey of gay historical figures and images from Paul Hennefeld's award-winning collection of postage stamps Fine Art for Men Commercial gallery of historical male art, photography and antiques going back to the Renaissance period Queer Arts Resource BigKugels Photographic Vintage male nudes Beaux Enfans de Sodome 18th century French homoerotica Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) Contains virtually all of his paintings of boys bathing in the sun, plus identification of his models and some photographs of them. Physique Magazines: A History of American Male Erotica The Rise and Fall of the Physique Magazines GENERAL RESOURCES & SOME COMMERCIAL SITES Sexbiblio: Bibliography of the History of Western Sexuality Frameline, distributor of gay and lesbian films, with interesting reviews by subject Beyond Homophobia, a blog by Dr Gregory Herek, about policy, science and sexual orientation, with useful summaries of current social science research (but very USA-focused) International Encyclopedia of Sexuality online at the Kinsey Institute GLBTQ Information Site, an excellent resource American Sexuality Magazine OutTraveler - The Guide to Gay Travel   America's premiere gay and lesbian travel magazine, The Out Traveler, covers the latest destinations, resorts, and travel trends and blends Out's trademark photography with The Advocate's authoritative voice on LGBT topics. Some interesting historical features, such as Felice Picano's Forever Florence. The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide   The Bimonthly Journal of GLBT Arts, Culture, and Politics Elysium Press catalog of out-of-print and antiquarian books of interest to gay men White Crane: A Journal of Gay Spirit, Wisdom and Culture. The back issues contain some interesting articles, such as Will Roscoe's essay on Archetypes. Go to Links to Reviews of Books on Queer History Go to Links to Reviews of Biographies of Gays and Lesbians Return to Gay History and Literature