Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two
10 best books like Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two (Allan Bérubé): Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II, Maurice, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Taming the Star Runner, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, A Queer History of the United States, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
| Author | Emily Yellin |
| ISBN | 0743245164 |
Our Mothers' War is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates...
| Author | E.M. Forster |
| ISBN | 0393310329 |
Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society’s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.
Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published...
| Author | Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0140235507 |
This ground-breaking book traces the emergence and growth of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York, from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. Based on thirteen years of research and drawing upon the oral histories of forty-five women, authors Kennedy and Davis explore butch-femme roles, coming out,...
| Author | S.E. Hinton |
| ISBN | 0440204798 |
Travis is the epitome of cool, even when he's in trouble. But when he's sent to stay with his uncle on a ranch in the country, he finds that his schoolmates don't like his tough city ways. He does find friendship of a sort with Casey, who runs a riding school at the ranch. She's the bravest person Travis has...
| Author | John Boswell |
| ISBN | 0679751645 |
This book blew my mind. As a historian of Roman religion, early Christianity and the Medieval Church, I never dreamed that the documents he's uncovered would actually exist out there. He's unearthed actual Christian liturgy for same-sex unions, prayers and blessings that couldn't be clearer about...
| 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...
| Author | Michael Bronski |
| ISBN | 0807044393 |
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire,...
Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage
| Author | Ryan Conrad |
| ISBN | 0615392687 |
While what feels like the entirety of the gay and lesbian movement is marching in unison towards some vague notion of equality, the Against Equality collective has been quietly assembling a digital archive to document the critical resistance to the politics of inclusion. This pocket-sized book 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 Boswell |
| ISBN | 0226067114 |
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when...
| 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 | 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...
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...
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
| Author | Charlene Carruthers |
| ISBN | 0807019410 |
A nationally recognized activist's 21st century guide to liberation through a Black queer feminist lens.
Appearing on The Roots' annual list, in 2017, as one of the most influential young African Americans, Carruthers--at age 32--is among a handful of high profile activists. Her debut...
