BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY Compiled by Rictor Norton
INDEX: [General History ]
[Anthologies ]
[Lesbian: General ]
[Pre-Modern Lesbian ]
[Modern Lesbian ]
[Literary History ]
[Language ]
[Theory ]
[Art and Film
[Famous Homosexuals ]
[Anthropology ]
[Ancient ]
[Medieval ]
[Early Modern ]
[Renaissance ]
[European ]
[English Early Modern ]
[English Modern ]
[German ]
[Dutch ]
[French ]
[ Spain & Portugal ]
[Pre-Modern American ]
[Modern American ]
[China, India and Japan ]
[Middle East ]
[Latin America ]
[Africa ]
[Colonian and Non-European ]
Updated 28 January 2006
Anthologies
The Alyson Almanac: A Treasury of Information for the Gay
and Lesbian Community
Boston: Alyson, 1989, 1990.
Anderson, Patrick and Sutherland, Alistair (eds)
Eros: An Anthology of Male Friendship .
London: Anthony Blond, 1961.
Beurdeley, Cecile
L'Amour bleu , trans.
Michael Taylor. Koln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1994.
Carpenter, Edward
Iolaus: An Anthology of
Friendship , 2nd ed. (enlarged). London: George
Allen & Unwin, 1906. (1st edn was 1902)
Coote, Stephen (ed.)
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse .
Penguin Books, 1983.
Faderman, Lillian (ed.)
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of
Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the
Present . New York: Viking Penguin, 1994.
Farrer, Peter
In Female Disguise . Karn Publications,
c 1990. Excerpts from literature illustrating cross-dressing. Interesting examples from Sir Walter Scott, Sir Thomas Malory, Jane
Austen, Mark Twain, E.F. Benson, Mrs Gaskell, Conan Doyle, Kipling, a
work called Boy or Girl? published in 1903. Plus numerous
articles, letters and stories about cross dressing in popular magazines
1880-1900, a selection previously published in Farrer's book Men in
Petticoats , 1987.
Font, Byrne R.S. (ed.)
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present Day . New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Fone, Byrne R.S. (ed.)
Hidden Heritage: History and the Gay Imagination: An
Anthology . New York: Avocation Publishers, 1980.
Haggerty, G. (ed.)
Gay Histories and Culture: An Encyclopedia . New York: Garland: 2000.
Higgins, Patrick (ed.)
A Queer Reader .
London: Fourth Estate, 1993.
Leyland, Winston (ed.)
Angels of the Lyre: A Gay Poetry Anthology .
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine, 1975.
Leyland, Winston (ed.)
Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay
Sunshine, An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics and
Culture . San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1991.
Leyland, Winston (ed.)
Gay Roots: An Anthology of Gay
History, Sex, Politics and Culture , Volume 2. San
Franciso: Gay Sunshine Press, 1993.
Leyland, Winston (ed.)
Orgasms of Light .
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine, 1977. (Gay poetry)
Mitchell, Mark and Leavitt, David
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 .
London: Chatto & Windus, 1998.
Norton, Rictor (ed.)
My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through
the Centuries . San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press,
1997.
Reade, Brian (ed.)
Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature
from 1850 to 1900: An Anthology . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970.
Roscoe, Will (coordinator)
Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology .
Gay American Indians History Project. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
Rutledge, Leigh W.
The Gay Book of Lists .
Boston: Alyson, 1987.
Rutledge, Leigh W.
The Gay Fireside
Companion . Boston: Alyson, 1989.
Rutledge, Leigh W.
Unnatural Quotations .
Boston: Alyson, 1988.
Saint, Assotto (ed.)
The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets .
New York: Galiens Press, 1991.
Sutherland, Alistair, and Anderson, Patrick (eds)
Eros: An
Anthology of Male Friendship . New York: Citadel,
1963 (orig. London: Anthony Blond, 1961).
Wilhelm, James J. (ed.)
Gay and Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology from Sappho to Michelangelo . New York: Garland, 1995.
Young, Ian (ed.)
The Male Muse: A Gay Anthology .
Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, 1973. (Also Son of the Male Muse:
New Gay Poetry , 1983).
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