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A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)
by (shelved 44 times as queer-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,764 ratings — published 2011
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,953 ratings — published 2008
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.56 — 40,252 ratings — published 1993
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,547 ratings — published 1994
The Stonewall Reader (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,014 ratings — published 2019
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,702 ratings — published 2020
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 30,119 ratings — published 1987
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,137 ratings — published 1991
Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,417 ratings — published 1996
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,066 ratings — published 2004
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 840 ratings — published 1993
Stonewall (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as queer-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,250 ratings — published 1993
When Brooklyn Was Queer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,044 ratings — published 2019
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,185 ratings — published 2017
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-history)
avg rating 3.55 — 6,176 ratings — published 2022
Female Husbands: A Trans History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 879 ratings — published 2020
Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,504 ratings — published 2016
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,589 ratings — published 2022
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 4,553 ratings — published 2016
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,218 ratings — published 2014
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,376 ratings — published 2004
Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,119 ratings — published 1990
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,709 ratings — published 2021
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.74 — 2,812 ratings — published 2019
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 495 ratings — published 1989
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,163 ratings — published 2015
We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.63 — 460 ratings — published 2019
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,058 ratings — published 1977
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,606 ratings — published 2024
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as queer-history)
avg rating 3.35 — 1,870 ratings — published 2017
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 856 ratings — published 1981
The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,374 ratings — published 1992
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,754 ratings — published 1972
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,370 ratings — published 2022
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 901 ratings — published 2022
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as queer-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,853 ratings — published 2021
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,985 ratings — published 1984
Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 517 ratings — published 1992
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,454 ratings — published 1981
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,802 ratings — published 1998
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 20,299 ratings — published 2019
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,368 ratings — published 2019
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as queer-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,979 ratings — published 1992
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 25,156 ratings — published 1982
Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A History, 1880–1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 51 ratings — published 2016
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
by (shelved 10 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 842 ratings — published 2011
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections, 15)
by (shelved 10 times as queer-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 303 ratings — published 2009
Homosexuality and Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 392 ratings — published 2003
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as queer-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,965 ratings — published 2016
CHARITY AND SYLVIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as queer-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,019 ratings — published 2014
“Researching and documenting the past and present lives of members of the LGBTQ+ population is, I suggest, a form of activism” - Clare Summerskill introducing Out On An Island book.”
― Out On An Island
― Out On An Island
“Sexuality was a fluid, infinitely malleable and indefinite condition. It permeated the streets of London like the smell of pies and sweetmeats.”
― Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
― Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
