LGBTQ History - where do you go to learn more?

[Kaje]

There is so much hidden history surrounding the LGBTQ community, from pioneers almost unknown to the general world, to the secret language of Polari, to the struggle for rights, for HIV healthcare, and more.

So this thread is for links to good sources for historical info, non-fiction books, and personal accounts. What have you read that informed you about the history of the LGBTQ community, that you would recommend to our YA book community?

[Kaje]

I really appreciated Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two - so much fascinating (and sometimes heartbreaking) detail about the lives of gay men and lesbians in that era.

[Blackmamah]

Not giving any information here (and I gotta say I've mostly got all the info I have about the history of lgtbiq+ community from articles so, I can´t be helpful here), but I wanted to say that I find this very interesting and think It's a very good idea.

[Kaje]

Articles that are online are fine too - feel free to link those.

For example - this is one about 10 Trans Women Pioneers They Definitely Didn’t Tell You About In History Class https://www.autostraddle.com/10-lesse...

And another more narrow - The Complete History of Transgender Characters in American Comic Books
https://www.autostraddle.com/the-comp...

And one about transgender pioneer Angela Morley: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...

[Mac]

I'm procrastinating on reading for my personal project, but found this book to be a very valuable resource:
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the Us Military
A Queer History of the United States is also a good one.
Here are some good American West sources, too.
Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West
Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900
Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California
Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past

Edit: The bibliography of books and/or articles is where I find a majority of this stuff. Also cruising Amazon or Thriftbooks and Goodreads.

[Mac]

I was in my third year at university when I took a leave of absence due to health problems. I majored in history, with a focus on LGBT+ history. We had to do a capstone project, and I did mine on lesbians and Girl Kultur in the Weimar Republic. Here are some sources I used:
Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin (this one is really fun)
The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin
The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis

[Kaje]

Those sound really interesting, thanks, Mac.

[Iamshadow]

Books I've read and enjoyed in recent times, about queer history:

When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts by Andrew E. Stoner
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
The Ladies of Llangolen by Elizabeth Mavor (whether the ladies were lesbian, homoromantic, or queer platonic is a debate that still rages - basically, they were outside the bounds of their gender and conventional heterosexual partnerships of the era, so they were, for want of a better word, queer by the standards of the age, regardless of what they did or didn't do romantically or sexually)

On my to-read
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence by Rosemary Curb
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past by Martin Duberman, George Chauncey
When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History by Michelle Ann Abate

There's also a local queer history book on my shelf I want to read that doesn't as yet have an entry on goodreads. It's called Out In The Valley: Hunter Gay and Lesbian Histories, ISBN 0909115745. I'll have to add it when I get to reading it.

[Kaje]

<3 Thank you.

[Cæsar]

Kaje wrote: "I really appreciated Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two - so much fascinating (and sometimes heartbreaking) detail about the lives of gay men and..."

Great!!!