LGBT HISTORY MONTH
February 2012
The following lists are based on a selection of titles with LGBT themes held
throughout Merton Libraries They may be reserved at any Merton Library.
Mind, body and spirit
296
Blue, Lionel
618.2086 Brill, Stephanie
158.2
Leigh, Andrew
306.766
McDougall, Bruce
395.2208 Meriano, Gino
306.8742 Morgen, Kenneth B
306.8740 Snow, Judith
362.1
Steinberg, Johnny
Tales of body and soul
The new essential guide to lesbian
conception, pregnancy and birth
The charisma effect: the secrets of
personal chemistry
My child is gay: how parents react when
they hear the news
Civil partnership: a guide to the perfect
day
Getting Simon: two gay doctors’ journey to
fatherhood
How it feels to have a gay or lesbian
parent
Three letter plague: a young man’s
journey through a great epidemic
History and personal testimonies
306.768
Beard, Richard
943.1550 Beck, Gad
940.540
Berube, Allan
306.848
Boyd, Helen
791.092
Cameron, Rhona
306.7780 Kilmer-Purcell, Josh
306.7660 Miller, Neil
363.2092 Paddick, Brian
306.7609 Stern, Keith
306.766
Summerskill, Brian
942.1
Winn, Christopher
Becoming Drusilla: one life, two friends,
three genders
An underground life: memoirs of a gay
Jew in Nazi Berlin
Coming out under fire: the history of gay
men and women in World War Two
She’s not the man I married: my life with a
transgender husband
Nineteen seventy-nine:a big year in a
small town (Scottish lesbian comedians)
I am not myself these days
(autobiography New York transvestite)
Out of the past: gay and lesbian history
from 1869 to the present
Line of fire: the autobiography of Britain’s
most controversial policeman
Queers in history: The comprehensive
encyclopedia of historical gays, lesbians
and bi-sexuals
The way we are now: gay and lesbian
lives in the 21st century
I never knew that about London
Film and TV
792.0280
791.4309
791.4302
791.4302
791.4302
792.7028
791.4502
792. 028
920
920
158
791.4365
920
Barratt, Mark
Bernstein, Jay
Bret, David
Cannon, Dyan
Chandler, Charlotte
Clary, Julian
Fry, Stephen
Gielgud, John
Hawthorne, Nigel
Oliver, Sarah
Norton, Graham
Porter, Darwin
Strachan, Alan
791.4302 Wayne, Jane Ellen
Ian McKellen: an unauthorised biography
Starmaker: life as a Hollywood publicist
Rock Hudson
Dear Cary: my life with Cary Grant
Marlene: a personal biography
A young man’s passage
The Fry chronicles
Gielgud’s letters
Straight face
Taylor Lautner A-Z
Ask Graham
50 years of queer cinema
Secret dreams: the biography of Michael
Redgrave
The life and loves of Barbara Stanwyck
Music, dance and theatre
792.0280
782.4216
782.4215
782.92
782.4216
782.4216
792.8028
792.8023
792.092
792.8092
792.8092
791
Barrowman, John
Buckley, David
Davis, Sharon
Holden, Peter
Jovanovic, Rob
Jones, Lesley-Ann
Kavanagh, Julie
Melville, Joy
Morley, Sheridan
Ostwald, Peter
Spence, Louie
Summers, Claude
Anything goes
Elton: the biography
A girl called Dusty
Tchaikovsky
George Michael
Freddie Mercury: the definitive biography
Rudolf Nureyev: the life
Diaghilev and friends
Coward
Vaclav Nijinsky: a leap into madness
Still got it, never lost it: my story
The queer encyclopedia of music, dance
and musical theatre
Sport and travel
917.3049
910.4
306.7680
796.4809
796.0866
Fry, Stephen
Morris, Jan
Richards, Renee
Swaddling, Judith
Warren, Patricia Nell
Stephen Fry in America
Contact: a book of glimpses
No way Renee!
The ancient Olympic games
The lavender locker room: 300 years of
great athletes whose sexual orientation
was different
Medicine and science
530.92
Ackroyd, Peter
610.7309 Bostridge, Mark
509.2
Leavitt, David
Isaac Newton
Florence Nightingale
The man who knew too much: Alan Turing
and the invention of the computer
Politics and war
941.5082 Casement, Roger
920
920
Cook, Blanche
Korda, Michael
938.0709
282.2922
937
941.0099
Lane Fox, Robin
Maxwell-Stuart, P
Scarre, Christopher
Starkey, David
The Black Diaries: with a study of his
background, sexuality and Irish politics
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hero: the life and legend of Lawrence of
Arabia
Alexander the Great
Chronicle of the Popes
Chronicle of the Roman emperors
Crown and country: the kings and queens
of England
Art and literature
920
Bailey, Paul
843.912
Foschini, Lorenza
759.2
Gayford, Martin
759.2
709.04
738.092
Harris, Nathaniel
Hauptmann, Jodi
Jones, Wendy
709.2
920
821.7
828.809
701.1809
920
823.92
Kemp, Martin
Nicolson, Nigel
O’Brien, Edna
Robbins, Ruth
Sewell, Brian
Souhami, Diana
Winterson, Jeanette
822.33
Wood, Michael
Stately homo: a celebration of the life of
Quentin Crisp
Proust’s overcoat: the story of one man’s
obsession with all things Proust
A bigger message: conversations with
David Hockney
The life and works of Michelangelo
Picasso to Warhol: 12 modern masters
Grayson Perry: portrait of the artist as a
young girl
Leonardo Da Vinci
Virginia Woolf
Byron in love
Oscar Wilde
Outsider: almost always, never quiet
The trails of Radclyffe Hall
Why be happy when you could be
normal?
In search of Shakespeare
Poetry and plays
821.92
Duffy, Carol Ann
Fry, Stephen
The bees
The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet
within
821.92
Kay, Jackie
Red dust road
811.8
Rachel, T Cole
Bend, don’t shatter: poets on the
beginning of desire
884.01
Sappho
Stung with love: poems and fragments
808.8035 Vasudevan, A
Poems and readings for wedding and civil
parnerships
822
Shakespeare, William The merchant of Venice
828.809
Wilde, Oscar
Collins complete works
822
Williams, Tennessee Cat on a hot tin roof
Fiction
Arnott, Jake
Bees, Georgia
Brown, Angela
Burchill, Julie
Burston, Paul
Burton, Peter
Darling, Julia
Duffy, Stella
Duncker, Patricia
Eugenides, Geoffrey
Forster, E M
Hall, Radclyffe
Highsmith, Patricia
Hoag, Tami
Hollinghurst, Alan
Isherwood, Christopher
Jackson, Charles
James, Henry
Jones, Frankie
Kallmaker, Karin
Kay, Jackie
King, Francis
Leavitt, David
Leroy, J T
Magden, Perihan
Mann, Thomas
Maupin, Armistead
Morrison, Ewan
O’Neill, Jamie
Proulx, Annie
Purves, Libby
Quinn, Jay
Radclyffe
Riordan, James
Toibin, Colm
Vidal, Gore
Walker, Alice
Waters, Sarah
Waugh, Evelyn
White, Edmund
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Tennessee
Winterson, Jeanette
The devil’s paintbrush
Finding home
Best lesbian love stories
Sweet
The gay divorcee
A casualty of war: the Arcadia book of gay
short stories
Crocodile soup
Mouths of babes
The strange case of the composer and his
judge
Middlesex
Maurice
The well of loneliness
Carol
Down the darkest road
The stranger’s child
A single man
The lost weekend
The Bostonians
Becka’s song
The dawning
Wish I was here
Nick of time
The Indian clerk
The heart is deceitful above all things
Two girls
Death in Venice
Michael Tolliver lives
The last book you read
At swim, two boys
Close range, Brokeback Mountain and
other stories
Love songs and lies
The beloved son
The lonely hearts club
The cello
The empty family
The golden age
The color purple
The little stranger
Brideshead revisited
Chaos
The picture of Dorian Gray
Collected stories
Oranges are not the only fruit