Recommended Reading

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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
by David K. Johnson. (November 2003)

Homosexuality & Civilization
by Louis Crompton. (November 2003)

Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World
by Nicholas C. Edsall. (October 2003)

Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price. (June 2002)

Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
by Eric Marcus. (June 2002)

Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America
by Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney. (June 1999)

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970
(Second Edition) by John D'Emilio. (August 1998)

We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook in Gay and Lesbian Politics
Edited by Mark Blasius and Shane Phelan. (February 1997)

The Hidden Holocaust
Edited by Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann. (February 1997)

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
by George Chauncey. (June 1995)

Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present
by Neil Miller. (April 1995)

Stonewall
by Martin Duberman. (May 1994)

Conduct Unbecoming: Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military
by Randy Shilts. (June 1993)

A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted & Murdered by the Nazis
by Michael Berenbaum. (March 1992)

Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
by Martha Vicinus, et al. (November 1990)

The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
by Richard Plant. (February 1988)

Gay American History
by Jonathan Ned Katz. (January 1984)

James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
by John D'Emilio. (August 2003)

Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
by Andrew Wilson. (July 2003)

Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs. (July 2002)

Aimee and Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin, 1943
by Erica Fischer. (October 1998)

Before Night Falls: A Memoir
by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Dolores M. Koch. (October 1994)

The Best Little Boy in the World
by John Reid (Andrew Tobias). (May 1993)

Oscar Wilde
by Richard Ellmann. (November 1988)

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
by Randy Shilts. (March 1988)

The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights

Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
by Keith Boykin. (February 2005)

Love in the Time of HIV: The Gay Man's Guide to Sex, Dating, and Relationships
by Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky. (July 2003)

I Do/ I Don't: Queers on Marriage
Edited by Ian Phillips and Greg Wharton. (September 2004)

Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry
by Evan Wolfson. (August 2004)

Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con
Edited by Andrew Sullivan. (May 2004)

Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage
by David Moats. (February 2004)

Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America
by Jonathan Rauch. (April 2004)

Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
Edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise. (August 2003)

Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth
by Wayne R. Besen. (July 2003)

Skipping Towards Gomorrah
by Dan Savage. (October 2002)

Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion: Essays 1964-2002
by Martin Duberman. (September 2002)

Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet
by William N. Eskridge. (April 2002)

Creating Change : Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights
by John D'Emilio, William B. Turner, and Urvashi Vaid. (October 2000)

Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival
by Andrew Sullivan. (October 1999)

Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity
by Bruce Bawer. (October 1998)

Beyond Queer
Edited by Bruce Bawer. (June 1996)

The Case for Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty to Civilized Commitment
by William N. Eskridge. (May 1996)

A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society
by Bruce Bawer. (October 1994)

Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality and the Jewish Tradition

Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity
by Bruce Bawer. (October 1998)

Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature
Edited by Will Roscoe and Stephen O. Murray. (January 1996)

Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities

Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora)
by A. B. Christa Schwarz. (July 2003)

The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities
Edited by Delroy Constantine-Simms. (January 2001)

Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature
Edited by Will Roscoe and Stephen O. Murray. (January 1996)

Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China
by Bret Hinsch. (December 1992)

The Great Mirror of Male Love
by Ihara Saikaku, translated by Paul Gordon Schalow. (February 1990)

The Gay and Lesbian Atlas

Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
by Bruce Bagemihl. (January 1999)

Same Sex: Debating the Ethics, Science, and Culture of Homosexuality
Edited by John Corvino. (November 1997)

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality
by Wayne R. Dynes. (January 1991)