LGBTQ+ History

Updated September 19, 2022
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France
Paper Book
The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic. Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fiction ...
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
Peter Ackroyd
Paper Book
*** A Sunday Times Bestseller *** In Queer City Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria ('wolf dens' or public pleasure...
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Lillian Faderman
Paper Book
"This is the history of the gay and lesbian movement that we've been waiting for." --The Washington Post The sweeping story of the struggle for gay and lesbian rights--based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, and members of the entire LGBT...
Queer London
Matt Houlbrook
Paper Book
In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big city. He wrote, "I have only been queer since I came to London about two years ago, before then I...
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music
Darryl W Bullock
Paper Book
'Easily the most readable and comprehensive guide to this fascinating hidden history' - Tom Robinson From the birth of jazz in the red-light district of New Orleans, through the rock 'n' roll years, Swinging Sixties and all-singing and all dancing disco days of the '70s, to modern pop, electronica...

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