Suggested Reading on History of Gay/Lesbian Rights Movement
Alwood, Edward. Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media. Columbia University Press, 1996.
Bullough, Vern L., editor. Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context. The
Haworth Press, 2002.
Cain, Patricia A. Rainbow Rights: The Role of Lawyers and Courts in the Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights
Movement. Westview Press, 2000.
Cain, Paul D. Leading the Parade: Conversations with America's Most Influential Lesbians and Gay Men.
Scarecrow Press, 2002.
Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution. St. Martin's Press, 2004
Clendinen, Dudley and Adam Nagourney. Out for Good: The Struggle To Build a Gay Rights Movement in
America. Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Cruikshank, Margaret. The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992.
D'Emilio, John. Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University. Routledge, 1992.
D'Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United
States, 1940-1970. University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Duberman, Martin. About Time: Exploring the Gay Past. Meridian Books, revised & expanded edition,
1991.
Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America.
Columbia University Press, 1991.
Gallagher, John and Chris Bull. Perfect Enemies: The Battle Between the Religious Right and the Gay
Movement. Madison Books, updated edition, 2001.
Gross, Larry. Up From Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America. Columbia University
Press, 2002.
Jennings, Kevin, editor. Becoming Visible. Alyson Publications, 1994.
Johnson, David K. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal
Government. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Kaiser, Charles. The Gay Metropolis, 1940-1996. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.
Katz, Jonathan Ned. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.: A Documentary History.
Meridian, revised edition, 1992.
Kepner, Jim. Rough News, Daring Views: 1950s' Pioneer Gay Press Journalism. The Haworth Press, 1998.
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Loughery, John. The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History.
Henry Holt & Co., 1998.
Marcus, Eric. Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights.
HarperCollins, 2002.
Marotta, Toby. The Politics of Homosexuality. Houghton Mifflin, 1981.
McGarry, Molly and Fred Wasserman. Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in
Twentieth-Century America. Penguin Studio, 1998.
Miller, Neil. Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. Vintage Books (Random
House), 1995.
Mixner, David and Dennis Bailey. Brave Journeys: Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage. Bantam Books,
2000.
Murdoch, Joyce and Deb Price. Courting Justice: Gay men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court. Basic Books,
2001.
Perry, Reverend Troy D. and Thomas L. P. Swicegood. Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage. St. Martin's
Press, 1991.
Sears, James T. Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968. Westview
Press (div. of HarperCollins), 1997.
Sears, James T. Rebels, Rubyfruit and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South. Rutgers
University Press, 2001.
Stein, Marc. City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972. University of
Chicago Press, 2000.
Streitmatter, Rodger. Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America. Faber and Faber,
1995.
Stryker, Susan and Jim Van Buskirk. Gay by the Bay: A History of Gay Culture in the San Francisco Bay
Area. Chronicle Books, 1996.
Teal, Donn. The Gay Militants. Stein & Day, 1971.
Tobin, Kay and Randy Wicker. The Gay Crusaders. Paperback Library, 1972; Arno Press, 1975.
Revised May 2004
List prepared by Barbara Gittings