Pre-Gay Era Bibliography
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Books Pertaining to the Pre-Gay Era in the United States
Listed by Author
by C. Todd White. Copyright (c) by C. Todd White, 2008. All rights reserved.
- Alwood, Edward
- 1996. Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media. New York: Columbia University Press.
- “Anomaly”
- 1948. The Circle of Sex. San Francisco: Pan-Graphic Press.
- Armstrong, Elizabeth A.
- 2002. Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950–1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Arthur, Gavin
- 1948. The Invert. London: Baillere, Tindall and Cox. (Parts were orig, published in 1927.)
- Atkins, Gary L.
- 2003. Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
- Bérubé, Allan
- 1991. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two. New York: Plume.
- Boyd, Nan Alamilla
- 2003. Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Branson, Helen P.
- 1957. Gay Bar. San Francisco: Pan-Graphic Press
- Bullough, Vern L.
- 1979. Homosexuality: A History. New York: New Meridian Library.
- Bullough, Vern L., editor. Judith M. Saunders and Sharon Valente, assoc. editors. C. Todd White, asst. editor.
- Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press.
- Cain, Paul D.
- 2002. Leading the Parade: Conversations with America’s Most Influential Lesbians and Gay Men. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. (Forward by Jack Nichols.)
- Chesser, Eustace
- 1959. Odd Man Out: Homosexuality in Men and Women. London: Victor Gollancz.
- D’Emilio, John
- 1983. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- 2002. The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Duberman, Martin
- 1991 [1986]. About Time: Exploring the Gay Past. New York: Meridian.
- 1993. Stonewall. New York: Dutton.
- Duberman, Martin Bauml, Martha Vicinus, and George Chancuy, Jr.
- 1989. Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. New York: New American Library.
- Faderman, Lillian and Stuart Timmons
- 2005. Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians. New York: Basic Books.
- Fone, Byrne R. S.
- 1995. A Road to Stonewall: Male Homosexuality and Homophobia in English and American Literature, 1750–1969. New York: Twayne Publishers.
- Gallo, Marcia
- 2006. Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement. New York: Carroll & Graf.
- Gerassi, John
- 1966. The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice, and Folly in an American City. New York: The Macmillan Company.
- Hansen, Joseph
- 1998. A Few Doors West of Hope: The Life and Times of Dauntless Don Slater. Universal City, CA: Homosexual Information Center.
- Hay, Harry with Will Roscoe, editor
- 1996. Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder. Boston: Beacon Press.
- Humphreys, Laud
- 1972. Out of the Closets: The Sociology of Homosexual Liberation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
- Hurewitz, Daniel
- 2007. Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Jorgensen, Christine
- 2000 [1967]. Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography. San Francisco: Cleis Press. Introduction by Susan Stryker.
- Johnson, David K.
- 2004. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Kaiser, Charles
- 1998. The Gay Metropolis 1940–1996. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson.
- Katz, Jonathan Ned
- 1972. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. New York: Meridian Books. (Revised in 1992.)
- 1983. Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary. New York: Harper and Row.
- 1996. The Invention of Heterosexuality. New York: Dutton.
- Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky and Madeline D. Davis.
- 1993. Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. New York: Routledge.
- Kepner, Jim
- 1998. Rough News, Daring Views: 1950s’ Pioneer Gay Press Journalism. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press.
- Legg, W. Dorr
- Homosexuals Today 1956: A Handbook of Organizations & Publications. Los Angeles: ONE, Incorporated.
- Legg, W. Dorr, editor. Walter L. Williams and David G. Cameron, associate editors. Donald C. Paul, managing editor.
- Homophile Studies in Theory and Practice. San Francisco: ONE Institute Press and GLB Publishers.
- Marcus, Eric
- 1992. Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945–1990. An Oral History. New York: HarperCollins.
- 2002. Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights. New York: Perennial.
- Murdoch, Joyce and Deb Price
- 2001. Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court. New York: Basic Books.
- Nardi, Peter M., David Sanders, and Judd Marmor
- 1994. Growing Up Before Stonewall: Life Stories of Some Gay Men. New York: Routledge.
- Nealon, Christopher
- 2001. Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion Before Stonewall. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Newton, Esther
- 1993. Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town. Boston: Beacon Press.
- Sears, James T.
- 2007. Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation. Binghampton, NY: Harrington Park Press.
- Streitmatter, Rodger
- 1995. Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America. Boston: Faber and Faber.
- Timmons, Stuart
- 1990. The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement. Boston: Alyson Publications.
- Williams, Walter L. and Yolanda Retter
- 2003. Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States: A Documentary History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
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