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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Mother Clap's Molly House	Rictor Norton	This pioneering study breaks new ground in presenting the gay community's history by sporting one of its more distinctive branches—molly houses. In this updated edition, with two new chapters, Rictor…	OL13668444W
Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe	Joshua A. Sanborn,Annette F. Timm	Through a blend of history and historiography, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides a clear and concise introduction to gender history in the region. The detailed examples and engagi…	OL13671147W
Pictures and Passions	James M. Saslow	Pictures and Passions is a sweeping panorama of art by, for, or about gays and lesbians across the world and across time, from Europe and North America to China and Australia, from the Stone Age to…	OL14865936W
Dishonorable passions	William N. Eskridge	A fascinating one-of-a-kind history of the government’s regulation of sexual behavior. From the Pentagon to the wedding chapel, there are few issues more controversial today than gay rights. As Willi…	OL15082470W
Dangerous liaisons	Eric Brandt	A groundbreaking study of the intersections of race and sexuality, by an all-star group of writers. From Selma and Stonewall to California’s Proposition 209 and the Defense of Marriage Act, blacks an…	OL15137195W
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
February house	Sherill Tippins	February House is the irresistible story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers -- and the country's best-known burlesque performer -- in a …	OL16025798W
Re-dressing America's frontier past	Peter Boag	Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag open…	OL16190571W
Queering the Color Line	Siobhan B. Somerville	Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a ran…	OL17371695W
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
Hold Tight Gently	Martin Duberman	In December 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from wha…	OL17531664W
The gay revolution	Lillian Faderman,Lillian Faderman	A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the ca…	OL17768453W
Before the closet	Allen J. Frantzen	Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of homosexuality developed only late in the medieval…	OL1861476W
Transgender warriors	Leslie Feinberg	In this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Feinberg uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Transgender Warri…	OL1868109W
Gay American autobiography from Whitman to Sedaris	David Bergman	In the first anthology to survey the full range of gay men’s autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman to the present, Gay American Autobiography draws excerpts from letters, journals, oral historie…	OL18753156W
The lesbian menace	Sherrie A. Inness	Electroshock. Hysterectomy. Lobotomy. These are only three of the many "cures" to which lesbians have been subjected in this century. How does a society develop such a profound aversion to a particul…	OL1885581W
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities	John D'Emilio	With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communi…	OL1903175W
Tinderbox	Robert W. Fieseler,Paul Heitsch	"Fieseler chronicles the ... event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on ... access to …	OL19745186W
When We Rise	Cleve Jones	Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, ne…	OL20041480W
Provincetown, vol 2	John Hardy Wright	Provincetown, a charming and historic seaport town, boasts a rich and fascinating history. Located on the tip of Cape Cod, the town has served as an important port for fishing and whaling vessels, a …	OL2036054W