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GLSEN Web Gay and Lesbian History Bibliography

This list can be found on the GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) Internet site at http://www.glsen.org/pages/sections/library/schooltools/040.article

Books:

Author	Title

Jennings, Kevin	Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School and College Students is designed to supplement existing courses in American as well as other histories.

Excellent oral histories include:

Author	Title

Adelman, Marcy	Long Time Passing: The Lives of Older Lesbians
Marcus, Eric	Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990.

Primary Sources:

Author	Title

Katz, Jonathan Ned, editor	Gay American History: A Documentary and The Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary
Duberman, Martin, editor	About Time: Exploring the Gay Past
Roscoe, Will, editor	Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology.
Cowan, Thomas	Gay Men and Women Who Enriched the World
Perry, Tory	Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage.
Russell, Paul	The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present
Richards, Dell	Superstars: Twelve Lesbians Who Changed the World

All of the above contain useful short biographies of significant gay people.

Chelsea House is issuing a collection of biographies for young adults entitled "Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians," ed. by Martin Duberman, with the first title, Kenan, Randall, James Baldwin, now available.

Secondary Sources:

Author	Title

Miller, Neil	Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History 1867-Present is the best, most readable survey of the subject available.
Adam, Barry	The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement, is an excellent secondary survey of world-wide developments.
D'Emilio, John, & Freedman, Estelle	Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, a comprehensive study of sexuality in America's history.
D'Emilio, John	Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 provides a solid overview of the modern gay movement.
*Faderman, Lillian	Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America is a comprehensive overview of lesbian life.
*Thompson, Mark	The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement, photographic history
*McDarrah, Fred	Gay Pride: Photos from Stonewall to Today, photographic history

More specific studies include:

Author	Title

Williams, Walter L.	The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Cultures, which studies homosexuality in America's native cultures.
Berube, Allan	Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two, which explains the key role of the Second World War in the formation of the modern gay movement) also now a documentary film).
Kennedy, Elizabeth & Davis, Madeline	Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community is a fascinating study of the Buffalo, NY lesbian community from the 1930's on, based on oral histories.
Chauncey, George	Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, explodes the myth that there was no gay community prior to recent times.
Timmons, Stuart	The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement, a readable biography of the founder of the first ongoing American gay rights group.
Duberman, Martin	Stonewall, which tells the story behind the riots considered the beginning of "gay liberation".
Shilts, Randy	And the Band Played On: People, Politics, and the AIDS Epidemic, which details the early history of the AIDS epidemic.
Shilts, Randy	Conduct Unbecoming: Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military, details the history of this hot topic.

The Hidden Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals — a Selective Bibliography

For a more comprehensive bibliography, see the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's site: http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/index.utp?content=bibliography/gays/right.htm

Author	Title

Erica Fischer	Aimee & Jaguar: a Love Story, Berlin 1943. (M), 1995 The true story of two women who fall in love, told with letters, diaries, documents and photographs.
Martin Sherman	Bent (M), 1979 Sherman's hit play Bent educated the world about Nazi persecution of homosexuals.
Claudia Schoppmann	Days of Masquerade, 1996 Ten personal stories of lesbians driven underground during the Third Reich.
Linda Jacobs Altman	The Forgotten Victims of the Holocaust, 2003 Includes information about Poles, Russians, Gypsies, and homosexuals.
Ian Young	Gay Resistance, 1985 A brief look at the presence and activities of homosexual men in the anti-Nazi underground movement.
	The Hidden Holocaust, 1995 Draws on original records to examine the legal and judicial discrimination against gay individuals and organizations.
	Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany, 1991 Includes twenty articles about the youth movement, Eros, and the male body, written between 1899-1931.
Pierre Seel	I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual, 1995 Seel survived internment, witnessed his lover's execution, and hid his sexual orientation in order to survive.
Heinz Heger	The Men With The Pink Triangle, 1994 Gay survivors of Nazi concentration camps recound their experiences.
Gary Schmidt	The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede, 2003 This work gtraces representatives of homosexuality in German literature before and after the Third Reich.
Frank Rector	The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals, 1981 Offers interviews with eyewitnesses, former Nazis, Third Reich homosexuals, and death camp survivors.
Ina R. Friedman	The Other Victims, 1990 Personal narratives of Christians, Gypsies, deaf people, homosexuals, and blacks who suffered at the hands of the Nazis.
Klaus M¨aut;uller	Paragraph 175, (M) DVD, 81 minutes, 2002 Historian Klaus M¨aut;uller interviews six gay men and one lesbian in this documentary about gay life under the Nazi regime.
Richard Plant	The Pink Triangle, 1986 Describes government policies towards homosexuals in Hitler's Germany and recounts their orders in Nazi death camps.
Rudiger Lautmann, et al	Sexual Politics in the Third Reich, 1997 A detailed study of the conditions facing homosexuals under the Nazis.
	Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany, 2001 Scholars write abot Gypsies, foreign workers, prostitutes, criminals, homosexuals, and the homeless, unemployed, and chronically ill in Hitler's Germany.
Gad Beck	An Underground Life: The Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin, 2000 Beck spent the war funneling food, money and clothing to hidden Jews.

* Means that the title is highly recommended for secondary school (high school) use.

M Means that the title has been made into a movie.