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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk	Edward Carpenter	Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk expands on Carpenter’s idea of the Intermediate type; a person of mixed sexes such as a feminine body with a masculine mind or vice versa. Originally published…	OL1041136W
The origins and role of same-sex relations in human societies	James Neill,James Neill	"In this work, the author challenges what some call the "heterosexual myth," arguing that human sexuality is not as absolute as prevalent thought suggests. Drawing on historic and current data, the b…	OL11977635W
Obama and the gays	Tracy Baim	"Presents a clear, lively, in-depth review of Barack Obama's policies on gay issues, from the early days of his political career through his meteoric rise to prominence-- all in the context of the po…	OL16307700W
Homoeroticism in Imperial China	Mark Stevenson,Cuncun Wu	"Bringing together over sixty pre-modern Chinese primary sources on same-sex desire in English translation, Homoeroticism in Imperial China is an important addition to the growing field of the compar…	OL16688620W
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
A Little Gay History	R. B. Parkinson	When was the first chat line between men established? Who was the first "lesbian"? Were ancient Greek men who had sex with each other necessarily "gay," and what did Shakespeare think about crossdres…	OL19665268W
A natural history of homosexuality	Mondimore, Francis Mark	A terrible sin, a gift from the gods, a mental illness, a natural human variation―over the centuries people have defined homosexuality in all of these ways. Since the word homosexual was coined in 18…	OL1969979W
Man to man	Mark Masterson	"In an analysis that promises to be controversial, Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood surveys the presence of same-sex desire between men in the later Roman empire…	OL19990783W
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
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
Homophobia	Martin Kantor	"In this new edition of Homophobia, Kantor tells in harsh detail how and why people still fire off slurs like "faggot" and "dyke," and threaten harm, from blowing up homes to bashing in heads. He tak…	OL2682765W
Metropolitan lovers	Julie Abraham	"From the destruction of Sodom to the selling of Gay Street and from Tales of the City to The L Word, urban life and homosexuality have been made inseparable in Western culture. In this book, Julie A…	OL2942255W
Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics	Estelle B. Freedman	"One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B. Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion informed by her feminist values. Over the past thi…	OL2980578W
Secondo natura	Eva Cantarella	I greci e i romani, al di là delle profonde differenze tra le due culture, vivevano i rapporti tra uomini in modo molto diverso da quello in cui lo viviamo noi oggi. Per i greci e i romani (ovviament…	OL846459W
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