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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Not a Passing Phase	Lesbian History Group	Everything you've always wanted to know about women's history but were afraid to ask, illuminated in this lively and contentious collection of essays. Have lesbians been expunged from history by a…	OL15436871W
Gay Life Stories	Robert Aldrich	"A comprehensive biographical survey from ancient Chinese courtiers to pioneers of gay liberation in the twenty-first century, from the unknowable relationships of the distant past to the frankest af…	OL17461935W
Gay roots	John Rechy,Jack Fritscher,Winston Leyland	A large anthology of essays on Gay history, sex, and politics, plus fiction and poetry: Eric Garber 0n 1920s Harlem, Huey Newton on Gay Liberation, John Mitzel on John Horne Burns; others. Edited by …	OL18259322W
Love, West Hollywood	James J. Berg	From New Orleans (Love, Bourbon Street) to San Francisco (Love, Castro Street), Alyson’s richly detailed, highly acclaimed series finds its way to the sun-dappled land of Southern California. The sto…	OL18853685W
Male Homosexuality in Central and South America	Stephen O. Murray	"This volume offers the first synthesis in any language of male homosexual behavior in Latin America. Attention is given to the historical origins of homosexual organization as well as the current me…	OL1944204W
The straight line	Tom Waidzunas	"To be taken seriously, therapies that claim to "cure" homosexuality wrap themselves in lab coats. Even though the fit is bad, and such therapies and their theorists now inhabit the scientific fringe…	OL20018526W
When Brooklyn Was Queer	Hugh Ryan	Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Broo…	OL20156997W
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe	John Boswell	From Wikipedia: Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe is a historical study written by American historian John Boswell and first published by Villard Books in 1994. Then a professor at Yale University…	OL258187W
Admission accomplished	Jill Johnston	In the 1970s, Jill Johnston established herself as one of the most vital and original thinkers of her time. Vanguard feminist, along with Gloria Steinem and Kate Millet, Jill Johnston led a movement …	OL2680210W
Out in all directions	Lynn Witt	Out in All Directions takes the mystery out of gay and lesbian history, lifts the lid off pink politics and paints the town lavender with every aspect of gay life, culture and community.	OL3742862W
The trouble with Harry Hay	Stuart Timmons	In a galvanizing sweep through the Twentieth Century, award-winning historian Stuart Timmons chronicles the story of the man who founded the modern gay movement. After decades of searching and strugg…	OL4477054W
Gay American History	Jonathan Ned Katz	A collection of documents provides a continuous chronicle of homosexuality in America, from colonial times to the present, and of the persecution of gay males and lesbians throughout American history	OL508872W
To Believe in Women	Lillian Faderman	A groundbreaking women's history of America explores the roles of lesbian women in the battle to procure rights and privileges for Americans of both genders, arguing that these early female leaders h…	OL578926W
The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's	Ricardo J. Brown	It is often difficult to imagine gay gathering places in the decades before the Stonewall riots of the 1960s, and nearly impossible to think of such communities outside the nation's largest cities. Y…	OL8530974W
Queer London	Matt Houlbrook	In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big c…	OL9173152W