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LGBT History Books
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Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,589 ratings — published 2008
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 798 ratings — published 1993
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,410 ratings — published 1994
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,077 ratings — published 1991
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,046 ratings — published 1987
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,476 ratings — published 1972
Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,081 ratings — published 1990
Stonewall (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,113 ratings — published 1993
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 958 ratings — published 2004
A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)
by (shelved 11 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,404 ratings — published 2011
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,413 ratings — published 1981
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,468 ratings — published 2020
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.54 — 35,681 ratings — published 1993
The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 600 ratings — published 2009
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,116 ratings — published 2015
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,125 ratings — published 2014
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,509 ratings — published 1982
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 510 ratings — published 2003
Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 500 ratings — published 1992
Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 365 ratings — published 1995
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 491 ratings — published 1989
Homosexuality and Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 393 ratings — published 2003
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 3.56 — 5,364 ratings — published 2022
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 841 ratings — published 1994
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 269 ratings — published 1983
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,055 ratings — published 2017
True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 164 ratings — published 2017
Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 40 ratings — published 2013
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 4,289 ratings — published 2016
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,320 ratings — published 2004
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 453 ratings — published 1995
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 850 ratings — published 1981
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 953 ratings — published 2014
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,905 ratings — published 1988
Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 51 ratings — published 1989
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 592 ratings — published 1993
The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,189 ratings — published 1986
Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 256 ratings — published 1999
Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 770 ratings — published 2012
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,026 ratings — published 1988
Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 182 ratings — published 1995
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 28 ratings — published 2000
Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 182 ratings — published 2001
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 296 ratings — published 1999
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,508 ratings — published 2022
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,154 ratings — published 2021
The Stonewall Reader (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,617 ratings — published 2019
Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)
by (shelved 4 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,282 ratings — published 2016
Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,343 ratings — published 1996
Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as lgbt-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,214 ratings — published 2017
“Mary: What are you teaching Him at that public high school of yours, Mrs. McElroy?
Joshua: She's teaching Me that this town is the armpit of Western civilization.”
― Corpus Christi
Joshua: She's teaching Me that this town is the armpit of Western civilization.”
― Corpus Christi
“Researching and documenting the past and present lives of members of the LGBTQ+ population is, I suggest, a form of activism” - Clare Summerskill introducing Out On An Island book.”
― Out On An Island
― Out On An Island











