Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
10 best books like Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy): Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, The Lesbian Body, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941228 |
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...
You know how sometimes in a library when you've already gotten far too many books and your arms are full you reach a point of abandon and just throw anything on the pile? That's what was happening to me when I plucked The Lesbian Body on down from the shelf because, I figured, I like lesbians and I like bodies....
| Author | Allan Bérubé |
| ISBN | 0743210719 |
This was a fascinating, and sometimes heartbreaking and infuriating, look at the GLBT men and women who came out while serving in the armed forces during WWII. It includes information on being gay on the home front as well.
In the 1940's, sodomy was a criminal act in the United States. Although...
| Author | George Chauncey |
| ISBN | 0465026214 |
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of...
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
| Author | David Carter |
| ISBN | 0312342691 |
"Riveting...Not only the definitive examination of the riots but an absorbing history of pre-Stonewall America, and how the oppression and pent-up rage of those years finally ignited on a hot New York night." - Boston Globe
In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall...
| Author | John D'Emilio |
| ISBN | 0226142671 |
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 Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970....
| Author | Dipesh Chakrabarty |
| ISBN | 0691130019 |
First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues,...
| Author | Margot Canaday |
| ISBN | 0691135983 |
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
| Author | David K. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0226401901 |
The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were posing another question at least...
| Author | Joanne J. Meyerowitz |
| ISBN | 0674013794 |
How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories...
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Joan was kind, amiable, flirty, sweet-tempered, clear-eyed. she was filled with gentle strength; her spirit glowed. a generous aunt, one who loved the world around her and who shared that...
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
| Author | C. Riley Snorton |
| ISBN | 1517901723 |
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their...
