SourcesBibliographySuggested Sources for Additional ResearchReference WorksStein, Marc, editor in chief. Lgbt, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. New York: Scribner, 2004. v.1-3 This resource contains a detailed timeline and many useful articles, including:
Books on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Organizing in the United StatesAngelides, Steven. A History of Bisexuality. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2001. Beemyn, Brett, ed. Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories. New York: Routledge, 1997. Bérubé, Allan. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two. New York: Free Press, 1990. Boyd, Nan Alamilla. Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. Berkeley: Univ. of California, 2003. Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1994. Chauncey, George. Why Marriage?: The History Shaping Today’s Debate over Gay Equality. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2004. Cromwell, Jason. Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 1999. Cruikshank, Margaret. The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement. New York, NY: Routledge, 1992. D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. D’Emilio, John. The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture. Durham: Duke, 2002. D’Emilio, John and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Second ed. Duberman, Martin, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr., eds. Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. New York: Penguin, 1989. Endean, Steve; edited by Vicki L. Eaklor. Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2005. This is the memoir of HRC founder Steve Endean, completed shortly before his death in 1993, and edited by historian Vicki L Eaklor. Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Feinberg, Leslie. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky and Madeline D. Davis. Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. New York: Routledge, 1993. Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2002. Newton, Esther. Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. Stein, Marc. City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Stryker, Susan, and Jim Van Buskirk. Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. Primary Sources in the Cornell University Human Sexuality CollectionPeriodicals The Human Sexuality Collection provides access to over 500 international periodicals and over 3000 U.S. periodicals. Included are homophile publications, physique magazines, gay liberation and lesbian feminist titles, transsexual, cross-dressing, and transgender periodicals, and current LGBT magazines with political or social focus. For more descriptions of these genres and to search our database of periodicals, click here. For guidance in finding transgender resources, click here. Popular Novels The Human Sexuality Collection offers thousands of lesbian and gay male pulp novels and series fiction from the 1950s through the 1980s. For more descriptions of these genres and to search our database of popular fiction, click here. Pre-1973 Nonfiction The Human Sexuality Collection’s nonfiction titles published between 1860 and 1973 offer insight into the changing attitudes and ways of understanding human sexuality in the sciences and social sciences, the legal system, and public perception. For more on this category, click here. Manuscripts A guide giving details about the contents of the Human Rights Campaign Records is available here. A complete list of manuscripts in the Human Sexuality Collection is available here. For summaries of the Human Sexuality Collection’s primary sources on LGBT organizing by time period, see these sections of the exhibit:
External LinksFor information on the holdings at other repositories, see Lavender Legacies, the guide produced by the Society of American Archivists’ Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable. Various sites provide timelines and summaries of aspects of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual history. Some include: People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Trans History. Aaron Rush has a very useful timeline “spanning our Gay History from the beginning (B.C.) to the present.” While his host site is for adult audiences only, this timeline is appropriate for all ages. See the sections on the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The History Project provides online exhibits and other features relating to Boston’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender history. It hosts timelines of Boston’s Latino/a, African American, and youth LGBT histories. Created in 2005, Southern California LGBT History is a joint project of the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives and UCLA’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Campus Resource Center. Intended to provide LGBT history to young adults, most of whom still do not learn this history in their high schools, it provides a timeline and biographical sketches. The Human Rights Campaign Website provides a lot of information about current issues in LGBT politics, about the organization itself, and some useful history. For instance, it explains the history of National Coming Out Day. |
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