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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
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You Can't Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties
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Transgender History
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Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two
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Homosexuality and Civilization
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
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4.15 avg rating — 4,522 ratings
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
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4.19 avg rating — 2,429 ratings
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
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4.02 avg rating — 4,099 ratings
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Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century
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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
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Stonewall
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
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Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
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4.06 avg rating — 1,163 ratings
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
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Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
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4.02 avg rating — 849 ratings
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
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4.44 avg rating — 4,401 ratings
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Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
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Queer There and Everywhere: 22 People Who Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 3,228 ratings
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Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
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3.68 avg rating — 773 ratings
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The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture
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3.95 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Gay Life & Culture: A World History
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3.96 avg rating — 195 ratings
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
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4.23 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Queer: A Graphic History
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3.92 avg rating — 7,381 ratings
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Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A History, 1880–1945
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4.02 avg rating — 46 ratings
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A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Around the World
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3.83 avg rating — 658 ratings
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The Greeks & Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
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3.81 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
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4.27 avg rating — 9,108 ratings
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A Queer History of the United States
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3.90 avg rating — 3,532 ratings
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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
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4.07 avg rating — 644 ratings
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Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
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The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
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4.12 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
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3.68 avg rating — 968 ratings
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Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context
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3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
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3.96 avg rating — 456 ratings
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Straightforward: The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The Hobbit
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military
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4.29 avg rating — 596 ratings
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Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality
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3.95 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
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4.06 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
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3.91 avg rating — 649 ratings
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Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970
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4.03 avg rating — 277 ratings
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A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500
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3.95 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.
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4.27 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement
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3.92 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Christopher and His Kind, 1929–1939
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4.04 avg rating — 3,788 ratings
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Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
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3.82 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
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Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
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4.15 avg rating — 2,369 ratings
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Wolf Girls at Vassar: Lesbian & Gay Experiences 1930-1990
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3.93 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution.
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4.22 avg rating — 801 ratings
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Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars
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3.85 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
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Dispatches From Lesbian America
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Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present
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4.02 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
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The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
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Man into Woman: The First Sex Change
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The Laramie Project
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Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801
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3.64 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Wearing History: T-shirts from the Gay Rights Movement
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Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)
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Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
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3.71 avg rating — 766 ratings
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Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
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4.22 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
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Branded by the Pink Triangle
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4.12 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997
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Rediscovering Gay History: Archetypes of Gay Love in Christian History
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The Well of Loneliness
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Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
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Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps
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The Seduction of the Mediterranean
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Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
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Mademoiselle de Maupin
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Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
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To the Stars
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They Called Us Enemy
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Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII
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3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Wedding Heard 'Round the World: America's First Gay Marriage
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3.89 avg rating — 101 ratings
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London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914
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The Sins of Jack Saul: The True Story of Dublin Jack and The Cleveland Street Scandal
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3.78 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Queering India
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Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
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4.15 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
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3.78 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
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Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution
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3.83 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
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3.92 avg rating — 60 ratings
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RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture: The Boundaries of Reality TV
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3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
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3.35 avg rating — 1,834 ratings
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Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
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4.05 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Queers in History
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Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
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4.30 avg rating — 362 ratings
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Les Vrilles de la vigne
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3.39 avg rating — 283 ratings
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The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and the Chevalière D'Eon
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3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders
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3.82 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
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From Prejudice to Pride: A History of the LGBTQ+ Movement
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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
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The Fire in Moonlight Stories from the Radical Faeries 1975-2010
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Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand
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4.50 avg rating — 32 ratings
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