History

General Works
Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance
Modern

General Works

Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, edited by Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr. New York: NAL Books, 1989. JLE 90-325. Twenty-nine perceptive essays covering aspects of the gay and lesbian world from ancient to contemporary times. No index.

Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance

Bailey, Derrick Sherwin. Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1975. JFD 91-5625. Seminal work on the subject first published in 1955. Dated but valuable historical review spanning Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages.

Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. JLF 80-1524. Important work which explores the increasing hostility toward homosexuality following the collapse of the Roman state.

Bray, Alan. Homosexuality in Renaissance England. London: Gay Men's Press, 1988, c1982. 2nd ed. JLD 89-1481.

Brown, Judith C. Immodest Acts: the Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. JFD 85-9740. Biography of lesbian nuns illustrates 17th-century attitudes, especially within the church.

Cantarella, Eva. Bisexuality in the Ancient World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. JFE 92-862. Covers the topic from the Greek Dark Age to the end of Imperial Rome.

Dover, Kenneth James. Greek Homosexuality. Updated ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. JFE 90-2562. An important-and demanding-work which covers Greek homosexuality from the eighth through the second centuries B.C.

Goodich, Michael. The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Middle Ages. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1979. JLE 79-1505. Appendix contains the record of Arnold of Verniolle's trial for heresy and sodomy.

Halperin, David M. One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love. New York: Routledge, 1990. JLE 90-66.

Winkler, John J. The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece. New York: Routledge, 1990. JFE 90-686.

Modern

Berube, Allan. Coming Out Under Fire: the History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two. New York: Free Press, 1990. JFE 90- 3833.

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1994. JFE 94-12059.

Cory, Donald Webster. (pseud.) The Homosexual in America. New York: Greenberg, 1951. 8-SNZ and MSS DIV\IGIC\NONF\C47. Pivotal American work appealing for an understanding of the homosexual.

Cory, Donald Webster. (pseud.) The Lesbian in America. New York: Citadel Press, 1964. D-16-2321. Pioneer work, although Albert Ellis' introduction shows the bias of its time by offering psychotherapy as a cure. Valuable bibliography. Appendices relate to government employment and army regulations concerning homosexuals in the 1950's.

Cruikshank, Margaret. The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement. New York: Routledge, 1992. JFE 92-11486. The movement viewed from a feminist perspective.

D'Emilio, John. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. New York: Harper and Row, 1988. JLE 89-418.

D'Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. JLE 83-1001.

Duberman, Martin. About Time: Exploring the Gay Past. Rev. ed. New York: Meridian, 1991. JFD 92-6783. A collection of historical documents from various sources and of essays by Duberman. Part three of the first edition (JLE 87-3029) which consisted of extracts from Duberman's diary has been dropped from this edition in favor of additional essays. The bibliography prepared for his graduate course in gay and lesbian studies is appended.

Duberman, Martin. Stonewall. New York: Dutton, 1993. JFE 93-7624. Lesbian and gay life before and after Stonewall, as seen by six contemporaries.

Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: a History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. JFE 91-5983. Cultural history traces the development of lesbian subcultures and emphasizes diversity.

Katz, Jonathan. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.: a Documentary History. Rev. Ed. New York: Meridian, 1992. JFE 92-7653. Revised edition of a classic work invaluable to the study of gay and lesbian American history. Abundant primary material from 1528-1976 arranged thematically. Updated bibliography.

Katz, Jonathan. Gay/Lesbian Almanac. New York: Harper and Row, 1983. JLE 83-2882. This collection serves as a companion volume to Gay American History.

Kennedy, Elizabeth. Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold. New York: Routledge, 1993. JFE 93-4087. History of a working-class lesbian community in Buffalo, N.Y.

Lesbians in Germany, 1890's-1920's, edited by Lillian Faderman and Brigitte Eriksson. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1990. JFD 90-4640. Anthology of fiction and nonfiction reveals the history of German lesbianism.

Marcus, Eric. Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990: An Oral History. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. JFE 92-6256 and JFE 92-10111.

Marotta, Toby. The Politics of Homosexuality. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. JLE 81-1793. History of gay political activity in the United States from the 1940's to the 1970's.

Norton, Rictor. Mother Clap's Molly House: the Gay Subculture in England, 1700-1830. London: GMP; distributed by InBook, East Haven, Conn., 1992. JFD 93-1404.

Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History, 1840-1985. London: Women's Press, 1989. JLD 90-315. Essays by various British authors.

The Pursuit of Sodomy: Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe, edited by Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma. New York: Harrington Park Press, c1989. JLD 89-710.

Shilts, Randy. Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military: Vietnam to the Persian Gulf. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. JFE 93-5782. A short prologue adds an historical perspective from 1778 to 1954. Copious notes and a selected bibliography.

Wheelwright, Julie. Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed As Men in the Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness. Boston: Pandora, 1989. JFE 89-1349. Women who dressed as men throughout European and American history. Selected biographies, bibliography, and many illustrations.