Links to Reviews of Books on Queer History (See also: Links to Reviews of Biographies of Gays and Lesbians) LATEST ADDITIONS (updated 25 February 2008) The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece by James Davidson (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Nov. 2007) A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages by Matt Cook, Robert Mills, Randolph Trumbach and H. G. Cocks (Greenwood World Publishing, 2007). Also available from Amazon.com American Homo: Community and Perversity by Jeffrey Escoffier (University of California Press, 1998), the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity and community over the past four decades. Also available from Amazon.com Modern American Queer History ed. Allida M. Black (Temple University Press, 2001). Also available from Amazon.com Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by A. B. Christa Schwarz (Indiana University Press, 2003). Also available from Amazon.com. Studies of black gay writers Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay and Richard Bruce Nugent Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright (St. Martin's Griffin, 2006). Also available from Amazon.com Deep Gossip by Henry Abelove (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). Henry Abelove, literary critic, historian and pioneer in queer studies, offers interdisciplinary views on the connections between politics, culture, and sexuality. Deep Gossip addresses the willful misreading of Freud's views on homosexuality among American psychoanalysts; reconsiders sexual practice during England's eighteenth century; assesses the contemporary relevance of Thoreau's Walden, particularly to queer politics; and traces the emergence of a queer critique of previous approaches to lesbian and gay history. Also available from Amazon.com Other Objects of Desire: Collectors and Collecting Queerly ed. Michael Camille and Adrian Rifkin (Blackwell Publishers, 2001). A study of gay and lesbian collectors, including Jean, Duc de Berry, Christina of Sweden, Frederick the Great, Warhol and Mapplethorpe. Also available from Amazon.com Anthropological, Legal and Medical Studies on Pederasty in Europe by Benjamin Tarnowsky (Fredonia Books, 2001) 1589633237 Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement by Marcia M. Gallo (Seal Press, 2006) Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles And the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation by James T. Sears (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies, Harrington Park Press, 2006) Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America by Marc Stein (Editor) (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003). Also available from Amazon.com Two Friends and Other 19th-century American Lesbian Stories by American Women Writers ed. Susan Koppelman (Meridian Paperback, 1994) Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s by Martin Meeker (University Of Chicago Press; Rev. Ed. 2006) Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons (Basic Books, 2006) 046502288X Pelo Vaso Traseiro: Sodomy and Sodomites in Luso-Brazilian History edited by Harold Johnson (Fenestra Books, 2007). Collection of thirteen articles on the history of homosexuality in the Portuguese-speaking world. Includes an article by Harold Johnson "outing" Prince Henry the Navigator as a closet gay, and several articles by Luis Mott. Also available from Amazon.com Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times by Morris B. Kaplan (Cornell University Press, 2005) Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 by Sean Brady (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). This book is part of a new generation of historical research that challenges prevailing arguments for the medical and legal construction of male homosexual identities in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Gay Life and Culture: A World History ed. by Robert Aldrich (Universe, 2006). Review in The Australian. Review in Times Literary Supplement. Review in The Guardian. Review in the Washington Blade The World We Have Won by Jeffrey Weeks (Routledge, 2007) LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain ed. Karen E. Lovaas, John P. Elia, Gust A. Yep (2007) Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective by Martti Nissinen (Augsburg: Fortress Publishers, 2004) The Modern History of Sexuality, ed. Matt Houlbrook and Harry Cocks (University of Liverpool; Birkbeck College, University of London, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005). Review Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing), 2006) by William Lipsky Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus (Princeton University Press, 2006) The Men We Loved: Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture by Danny Kaplan (Berghahn Books, 2006) Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity by Bryant Keith Alexander (AltaMira Press, 2006) Gay Day: The Golden Age of the Christopher Street Parade 1974-1983. Pictures with captions by Allen Ginsberg, Hank O'Neal (Abrams Image, 2006) Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships by William Benemann (Harrington Park Press, 2006) Gay Power: An American Revolution by David Eisenbach (Carroll & Graf, 2006). Gay Power chronicles the tumultuous first wave of the modern gay rights movement. From the first-ever gay student group launched at Columbia University in 1965 to the Gay Liberation Front, the Gay Activist Alliance, and other vanguard organizations that emerged from the Stonewall riots. Description and excerpt Mapping Male Sexuality: Nineteenth-Century England, by Jay Losey and William D. Brewer (eds), (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000). Includes essays on William Godwin, Byron, Shelley, Disraeli, Beckford, Sheridan Le Fanu and Charles Kingsley. Extracts available on Google Book Search Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire, by Edward Shorter (University of Toronto Press, 2005). Publisher's description. Review. Another review. Also available from Amazon UK. Mother Clap's Molly House by Rictor Norton. This pioneering historical study is the first comprehensive chronicle of the English gay community at its 18th-century roots, sporting for the first time a distinctive subculture with its "molly houses," "sodomites' walks," "maiden names" and gay slang. Rictor Norton's research into trial records and contemporary documents establishes a vital cornerstone for the reconstruction of gay history. Challenging in its demonstration that the molly subculture was primarily a working-class community of blacksmiths, milkmen, publicans and shopkeepers, Mother Clap's Molly House also records the exuberant lives of personalities such as Charles Hitchin the "thief-taker," the dramatists Samuel Foote and Isaac Bickerstaffe, William Beckford of Fonthill, and Rev. John Church, prosecuted for his blessing of gay marriages. All these are set against a backdrop of persecution, blackmail and the pillory. Also available from Amazon.Com. Review on Speak Its Name blog The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts by James Smalls. Publisher's description A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725 by Alex Ritsema (2006). On 5 May 1725 a Dutch ship’s officer, Leendert Hasenbosch, was set ashore on the desert island of Ascension in the South Atlantic Ocean, as a punishment for sodomy. He tried to survive on turtles and birds but found very little water on the barren island. He wrote a diary, until his death about six months later. In January 1726 British mariners found his tent, diary and other things and brought the diary to England. In 1728 a first English version of the diary of the Dutch castaway was published. In 1730 another English edition appeared, dramatised and embellished with many homophobic passages. In 1978 Peter Agnos (a pseudonym) published _The Queer Dutchman_, which used the unauthentic 1730 version and then faked many alleged documents and details about the story. The full true story, with complete text of the first authentic English translation of the journal, and detailed study of the documents, plus information about other 18th-century Dutchmen banished to desert islands for sodomy, has now been told in Alex Ritsema's _A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725_. The 148-page book is self-published but of high quality, inexpensive, well illustrated, and immensely interesting. The Queer Composition of America’s Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity by Nadine Hubbs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004) Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe by Robert Tobin (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000). Review Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest by Peter Boag (University of California Press, 2003) The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography by Drewey Wayne Gunn (Scarecrow Press, 2005). Review The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England by Valerie Traub (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2002). Also available from Amazom.com Born Gay: The Psychobiology of Sex Orientation by Glenn Wilson and Qazi Rahman (Peter Owen, 2005). Review The Gay Detective Novel: Lesbian and Gay Main Characters and Themes in Mystery Fiction by Judith A Markowitz (McFarland & Company, 2004). Review The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America by Patricia U. Bonomi (University of North Carolina Press, 2000) Gay and Lesbian Philadelphia by Thom Nickels (Arcadia, 2002) The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era, by Robert A. Schanke (Editor), Kimberley Bell Marra (Editor), Billy J. Harbin (Editor) (University of Michigan Press, 2005) A short history of gay Philadelphia from Walt Whitman via 1920s drag bars to the formation of ACT UP. London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 by Matt Cook (Cambridge University Press, 2003) Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Long excerpt from first chapter. Review by Gregory Woods Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 1880-1950 by Jens Rydstrom (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Detailed review Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West by Ruth Vanita (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Love’s Rite is the first book to examine same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides in India over the last two decades, discussing these phenomena in the context of the international debate on gay marriage, and in the context of past and present Indian and Euro-American cultural representations of same-sex union, from fourteenth-century narratives about co-wives who miraculously produce a child together to nineteenth-century depictions of ritualized unions between women. Love’s Rite brings a fresh perspective to the gay marriage debate, suggesting that same-sex marriage dwells not at the margins of society but at the heart of culture. Eighteenth-Century British Erotica Part 1 and Part 2 edited by Rictor Norton and others. Review Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965, by Nan Alamilla Boyd (University of California Press, 2005). Traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965, Edited by Katherine V. Forrest (Cleis Press, 2005). Collection of excerpts from lesbian pulps by Ann Bannon, Vin Packer, Marion Zimmer Bradley and many others, with brief introductions. Review. Also available from Amazon.com. Culture of Queers, by Richard Dyer (Routledge, 2001). The history of queer arts and media, especially film Sexual Cultures in Europe: Themes in Sexuality, and Sexual Cultures in Europe: National Histories, ed. Franz X. Eder, Lesley Hall and Gert Hekma (Manchester University Press, 1999). Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England by Julie Peakman (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Review Bachelors of Art: Edward Perry Warren & the Lewes House Brotherhood by David Sox (London: Fourth Estate, 1991). Bryn Mawr review. Warren almost single-handedly established the collections of the Boston Museum and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. As well as art, Warren collected young men, establishing in Lewes a brotherhood devoted to the revival of classical ideals. Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths by Andrew Calimach (New Rochelle: Haiduk Press, 2002). Bryn Mawr review Born to Be Gay: a History of Homosexuality by William Naphy (Tempus, 2004). Dramatically highlights the positive attitudes of bygone generations and cultures, as opposed to nineteenth-century views of the 'disease' of homosexuality. Centenary of the Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901, edited by Robert McKee Irwin, Edward McCaughan, Michelle Nasser (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). On November 17, 1901, Mexico City police raided a private party and arrested 41 men, half of whom were dressed as women. This clandestine transvestite ball scandalized Mexico City and is still part of the city's popular culture Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions by Randy P. Conner (Harrington Park Press, 2004). Badpuppy review Speaking for Our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian Rights, 1892-2000 edited by Robert B. Ridinger (Harrington Park Press, 2004). Badpuppy review A History of Homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919-1939, Vol. I and Vol. II, by Florence Tamagne (Algora, 2004). Charting the lesbian and gay scene between the two world wars Queer Love in the Middle Ages by Anna Klosowska Roberts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Same-sex love in medieval French literature Affectionate Men: A Photographic History of a Century of Male Couples (1850's to 1950's)by Russell Bush. Badpuppy review Alcibiades at the Door: Gay Discourses in French Literature by Lawrence R. Schehr (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995). Review. American Adonis: Tony Sansone, The First Male Physique Icon by John Massey Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, collection edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger (University of Texas Press, 2002). Bryn Mawr review Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Love in English Discourse, 1850-1920 by Christopher Craft. Publisher's advertisement. Backward Glances: Cruising Queer Streets in London and New York by Mark Turner (Reaktion Books, 2003) Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay & Lesbian History for High School & College Students by Kevin Jennings Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World (edited by David M. Halperin, John J. Winkler and Froma I. Zeitlin). Review Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context edited by Vern L. Bullough (Harrington Park Press, 2002). IGLR review Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 by William J. Mann Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil by James Naylor Green. A history of the gay subculture in Brazil Bisexuality in the Ancient World by Eva Cantarella. Review Blossom of Bone: Reclaming the Connections Between Homoeroticism and the Sacred by Randy P. Conner. Review Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities edited by Stephen D. Murray and Will Roscoe. Informative extracts from the Introduction and Conclusion, with a long glossary of African same-sex terms, plus a map showing the main areas studied. Web page designed by Will Roscoe. Another review at Le séminaire gai. Another review by Gert Hekma. Another review at Badpuppy. Interesting readers' reviews at Amazon.com Bugger's Talk: Social History of British Gay Life 1900-1975 by Tom Sargant (Gay Men's Press, 2002) Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico by Federico Garcia Carvajal (University of Texas Press, 2003). Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia and 19th-Century England by Louis Crompton. Available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com (which has excerpts). Camp Excess and Queer Histories of Oz: A review of Robert Reynolds’ From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual and David Coad’s Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities. Publisher's advertisement for Coad's Gender Trouble Down Under Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse 1600-1950 by Gregory M. Pflugfelder. Excerpts at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk The History of Same-Sex Marriage excerpt from The Case for Same-Sex Marriage by William N. Eskridge, Jr. Available from Amazon.com The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality and the Movies by Vito Russo. Readers' reviews at Amazon.com; also available from Amazon.co.uk Champion by Walter Kundzicz and Reed Massengill (ed.) (Goliath Books, 2004) Illustrations from Champion Studios, male physique photography of the 1950s and 1960s. Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America, by Will Roscoe. Excerpts and reviews at Amazon.com Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, by John Boswell. Available from Amazon.com The Church and the Homosexual Preface to the Fourth Edition of John McNeil's pioneering study first published in 1976. Available from Amazon.com Colonialism and Homosexuality by Robert Aldrich. About the author Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two by Allan Berube Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia by Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia by David Tuller. Author's site, with Table of Contents and long excerpts. Available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories by Brett Beemyn (ed.) (Routledge, new edition 1997). Anthology of 11 essays that detail the formation of specific queer communities across a wide historical and geographic span including Buffalo, New York, in the 1940s; Washington, D.C. in the 1950s; and Philadelphia in the early 1970s; Detroit and Birmingham. From Library Journal: Butch lesbians in Buffalo, high-class lesbians in Cherry Grove, gay auto workers in Flint, and all sorts of gay folk in San Francisco and New York are all found in this collection of essays examining the development of myriad gay communities in the country. Doubts that there were sizable gay communities before Stonewall will now be put to rest. The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture by Douglas Shand-Tucci. Review. Another review. The Crucifixion of Hyacinth: Jews, Christians, and Homosexuals from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity by Geoff Puterbaugh (iUniverse.com, 2000). Review with excerpts. Another Review Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library History edited by James V. Carmichael Jr. Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich by Claudia Schoppmann. Available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com De Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican Men by Joseph Carrier. Available from Amazon.com Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America, by Henry L. Minton (University of Chicago Press, 2001) A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America by Leila Rupp. Available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com Dirty Pictures: Tom of Finland, Masculinity and Homosexuality by Micha Ramakers. Available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century by George Robb and Nancy Erber. Another review. Available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com Thomas Eakins: The Absolute Male by John Esten (Universe, 2002). Drawings, paintings, and photos of Eakins's male nudes, from collections around the world; 50 illustrations. Eminent Maricones by Jaime Manrique, about famous Hispanic gay men such as Manuel Puig, Reinaldo Arenas and Federico Garcia Lorca. Another review. Full text of Chapter One, and extract about Reinaldo Arenas. Get it from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk Encolpe et Giton: A new French translation of Petronius's Satyricon, emphasizing the pederastic romance of the two main characters. A brief overview at the author's site, plus extracts (all in French) Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Lore by Randy Connor et al Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture by Laura Doan (publisher's description with list of contents). See also a long and interesting interview with the author concentrating on Radclyffe Hall, with many illustrations. Synopsis at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam (Duke University Press, 1998). Female Masculinity covers a host of cross-identifications: tomboys, butches, masculine heterosexual women, nineteenth century tribades and sapphists, inverts, transgenders, stone butches and soft butches, drag kings, cyber butches, athletes, women with beards. Interview. Detailed critique (pdf file) Figuring Sex Between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester by Paul Hammond. Brief summary. Table of contents Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence by Michael Rocke (second review on the page). Another review in Independent Gay Forum. Readers' reviews at Amazon.co.uk and excerpts and reviews at Amazon.com The Friend by Alan Bray (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Bray has discovered church memorials and graves from the 14th to 19th centuries for same-sex couples, whose relationships have been blessed by the church as "connubium" or a form of marriage. Publisher's description. Review. Long and detailed review by James Davidson. From the Closet to the Screen: Women at the Gateways Club, by Jill Gardiner (Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List, 2002). In the 1960s heyday the Gateways Club, which opened in the 1930s, was internationally known as "the" lesbian club to visit in London. A social history of lesbian lives, loves and mores from a cloistered secret in the 1950s and 1960s to a battleground between feminists and traditionalists in the 1970s. Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area by Susan Stryker and Jim Van Buskirk. Readers' reviews at Amazon.co.uk and excerpts at Amazon.com Gay Cuban Nation by Emilio Bejel. Badpuppy review The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996 by Charles Kaiser Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey. Detailed reviews at Amazon.com Gay Old Girls by Zsa Zsa Gershick. Interviews with older lesbians in the US. Interesting readers' reviews at Amazon.co.uk and excerpts and detailed reviews at Amazon.com Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations by Serena Nanda (Waveland Press Inc., 1999) A Genealogy of Queer Theory by William B. Turner. Available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behaviour Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918 by Rudi C. Bleys. Also available from Amazon.co.uk The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood by Diana McLellan. Lesbians during the golden age of Hollywood, with biographies of Mercedes de Acosta, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo Greek Homosexuality by Kenneth James Dover. The classic study of homosexual relations in ancient Greece The Harvey Milk Institute Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Internet Research, ed. Alan L. Ellis, Liz Highleyman, Kevin Schaub and Melissa White (Harrington Press, 2001) Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford by Linda Dowling. Excerpts from Amazon.com Hello Sailor: The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea by Paul Baker and Jo Stanley (Longman, 2003) Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex by Alice Comurat Dreger. Long synopsis at Amazon.co.uk. Excerpts and detailed reviews at Amazon.com Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, ed. by Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey. Excellent collection of 30 articles on gay and lesbian history. Available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk A Hidden Love: Art and Homosexuality by Dominique Fernandez (Prestel, 2002). Illustrated with works by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Canova, Lucien Freud, and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others, covering Ancient Greece and Rome, the Renaissance and Baroque movements, Chinese and Japanese erotica, the nineteenth century, the official art of Fascism, and finally the modern world of art. Synopsis at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com   A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1998), and the complete text of Chapter One. Also a Publisher's blurb and excerpts from reviews. Woods's book prompts a long thoughtful essay on gay literature by Colm Toibin in the London Review of Books Also another review. Another Review Homoaffectionalism: Male Bonding from Gilgamesh to the Present by Paul D. Hardman Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-sex Desire in the 14th Century by Richard E. Zeikowitz (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature (edited by J.W. Wright Jr. and Everett K. Rowson). Available from Amazon.com Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia by Dan Healey (University of Chicago Press, 2001). Review The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany by James D. Steakley Homosexualities, large anthropological survey by Stephen O. Murray. Review. Another review. Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton(Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2003). Guardian Review. Village Voice review. Bryn Mawr Review. Review by Andrew Holleran Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity by Robert J. Corber Homosexuality in French History and Culture, edited by Jeffrey Merrick and Michael Sibalis (Haworth, 2001). Review. Merrick's homepage listing his many publications on French gay history. Review by Vern L. Bullough Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents in Translation, ed. by Thomas K. Hubbard. Review. First two chapters online Homosexuality in Modern France: Studies in the History of Sexuality by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan. Excerpts available at Amazon.com Homosexuals in History: A Study of Ambivalence in Society, Literature and the Arts, by A.L. Rowse. Available from Amazon.com A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven by Cynthia Herrup. One of the first men to be tried for sodomy. And another review. Readers' reviews on Amazon.co.uk. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz (Harvard University Press, 2004) How to Do the History of Homosexuality by David Halperin (University of Chicago Press, 2002). Soon to be published in paperback. Publisher's description. Detailed review Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England by Stephen Orgel, focusing on the impact of boys performing the female roles in Elizabethan drama. And a long review in NYRB. Available from Amazon.co.uk Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, edited by Pete Sigal (University of Chicago Press, 2003) Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 by Martha Vicinus (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Review The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln by C. A. Tripp (Free Press, 2004). Summary of a biography documenting Abraham Lincoln's alleged homosexuality. The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology by Mark D. Jordan. Interview with the author. Detailed readers' reviews on Amazon.co.uk Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature, edited by Stephen O. Murray (New York University Press, 1997). Review It's Not Unusual, A history of lesbian and gay Britain in the 20th Century, by Alkarim Jivani King James and the History of Homosexuality by Michael B. Young. Another review from Windy City Times Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century by Julie Peakman (London: Atlantic Books, 2004) The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Interview with the author.   Another interview.   Washington Blade review.   Gay Today review Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia, edited by Bonnie Zimmerman. Available from Amazon.co.uk The Lesbian History Sourcebook by Alison Oram and Annmarie Turnbull. Available from Amazon.co.uk The Literature of Lesbianism by Terry Castle (Columbia University Press, 2003). Complete Table of Contents. Review. Badpuppy Review Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968 by James T. Sears. Another review from Gay Today Lorca and Censorship: The Gay Artist Made Heterosexual by Daniel Eisenberg Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism by Bernadette J. Brooten (University of Chicago Press, 1996). Also a long review in The Historian. Readers' reviews on Amazon.co.uk. Bryn Mawr review. And a detailed review by Wayne R. Dynes The Love of the Samurai: A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality by Tsuneo Watanabe and Jun'Ichi Iwata. Available from Amazon.com Love, Sex and Intimacy Between Men, 1550-1800 ed. Katherine O'Donnell and Michael O'Rourke (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Publisher's summary Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz. Review in Gay Today. Another review in the Advocate Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths by Andrew Calimach. Review Machos, Maricones, and Gays: Cuba and Homosexuality by Ian Lumsden. Available from Amazon.co.uk Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Eric Markus (Perennial, 2002) Making Sexual History by Jeffrey Weeks, and Weeks's reply to this critique. Interesting readers' reviews at Amazon.co.uk Male Bodies: A Photographic History of the Nude by Emmanuel Cooper (Prestel Publishing, 2004). Includes 150 colour photographs Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan by Gary P. Leupp. Available from Amazon.co.uk The Male Ideal: Lon of New York and the Masculine Physique by Reed Massengill (Universe, 2004). Physique photography by Alonzo Hanagan, better known as Lon of New York, who worked during the 1940s and 1950s. The Man Who Was a Woman and Other Queer Tales from Hindu Lore by Devdutt Pwattanaik (Haworth, 2001). Summary and review. Publisher's description with very detailed listing of contents. Interview with the author The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism by J. Michael Bailey. Review of the book that Stephen Pinker has called "the best book yet" on the subject. Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century by George E. Haggerty. Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk Men Like That: A Southern Gay History by John Howard (University of Chicago Press, 2001). Available from Amazon.com Musicology and Difference and Queering the Pitch; interesting review essay and these and other books about detecting gender and sexual orientation in music, with comments on Tchaikovsky, Benjamin Britten, Handel, Schubert and other composers suggested to have been homosexual. Available from Amazon.co.uk My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries by Rictor Norton. Review. Another review The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity by Rictor Norton. Another review by Antony Grey. Another review at Thinking-Out-Loud. Excerpts available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the 19th Century by Harry G. Cocks (IB Tauris, 2003). Review. A Natural History of Homosexuality by Francis Mark Mondimore. Long review of a psychiatrist's synthesis of recent research in biology, history, psychology and politics concerning homosexuality. Detailed synopsis at Amazon.co.uk Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook, edited by Chris White. Available from Amazon.co.uk Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1928-1998 by David Ehrenstein. Available from Amazon.co.uk One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love by David M. Halperin. Available from Amazon.co.uk. Review by Amy Richlin, pointing out its many fallacies The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History, by John Loughery. Available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America by Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney Out of the Blue: Russia's Hidden Gay Literature (edited by Kevin Moss). Another review from Gay Today. Available from Amazon.co.uk Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation, ed. by Karla Jay et al. Classic collection of documents from the beginnings of the gay liberation movement Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art by Richard Meyer, focusing particularly on the art of Paul Cadmus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol and Gran Fury. Review Out/Lines: Gay Underground Erotic Graphics From Before Stonewall by Thomas Waugh (ed.) Pages Passed From Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English From 1748 to 1914 by Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998). Review. Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature (edited by Stephen Miller). Available from Amazon.co.uk A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture by Will Fellows (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). The role of gay men in restoration and preservation of historic interiors and architecture. Interview with the author. Publisher's details. Also available from Amazon.co.uk Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture, 1668-1801 by Emma Donoghue. Available from Amazon.co.uk Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris by William A. Peniston (Harrington Park Press, 2004). Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece by William Armstrong Percy III. Another review. Available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography by John Ibson, scheduled for publication in September 2002 Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James M. Saslow. Available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Psappha: A Novel of Sappho by Peggy Ullman Bell (Upstart, 2000) Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps by Michael Bronski (St Martin's Press, 2003) Review Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture and Difference by Scott Bravmann. Available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, by Josiah Blackmore (ed.) and Gregory S. Hutcheson (ed.). Available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film, ed. Gary P. Cestaro (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of Paperback by Susan Stryker Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories Since 1600 (edited by David Higgs). Extracts and reviews at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk The Queer Sixties by Patricia Juliana Smith (ed.) Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of American Culture, 1947-1985 by James McCourt (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003) Queering the Pitch and Musicology and Difference; interesting review essay on these and other books about detecting gender and sexual orientation in music, with comments on Tchaikovsky, Benjamin Britten, Handel, Schubert and other composers suggested to have been homosexual. Available from Amazon.com Queering the Renaissance – Review of Queering the Renaissance (available from Amazon.com) and Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities (available from Amazon.com), both by Jonathan Goldberg The Quest for the Shaman in European Antiquity, by Miranda Aldhouse-Green and Stephen Green (Thames & Hudson, 2005) Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder Harry Hay (edited by Will Roscoe). Available from Amazon.com The Riddle of 'Man-Manly' Love: The Pioneering Work on Male Homosexuality by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (trans. Michael A. Lombardi-Nash) RIMBAUD, Arthur Long review of two biographies of the 19th-century French poet by Graham Robb and Jean-Luc Steinmetz. Readers' reviews at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture by Daniel Harris. Interesting readers' reviews at Amazon.com The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement by Barry D. Adam Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity by Craig A. Williams. Another review. Another review. Extracts and detailed reviews at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Roman Sexualities by Judith P. Hallett, Marilyn B. Skinner (Princeton University Press, 1997). Detailed critique in Bryn Mawr review Romantic Doubles: Sex and Sympathy in British Gothic Literature, 1790-1830 by Benjamin Eric Daffron, due for publication in December 2002 Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role by Andrew Elfenbein. Available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Rough News, Daring Views: 1950s Pioneer Gay Press Journalism by Jim Kepner. Several reviews from the International Gay & Lesbian Review. Available from Amazon.com The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire by Christopher Lane (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995). Review Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India by Giti Thadani. Reader's review at Amazon.com Same-sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell, 2004) by Jennifer Robertson (ed.). List of Contents. Same Sex, Different Cultures by Gilbert Herdt. Another review. Available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History by Ruth Vanita (Ed.) and Saleem Kidwai (Ed.). Also an Interview with Ruth Vanita. Available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell. Lists and reprints of reviews. Many extracts and reviews at Amazon.com Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 by Harriette Andreadis. Prizewinning book in the Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society. Discusses women such as Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Anne Killigrew, Anne Finch Countess of Winchelsea, and women at Queen Anne's Court. Description and details Table of Contents. Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century by Marc E. Vargo (Harrington Park Press, 2003). Review Science and Homosexualities by Vernon A. Rosario (ed.). Available from Amazon.com Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century Writing edited by Ian McCormick; Contents with selected quotations. Available from Amazon.com Sex and the Gender Revolution—Volume One: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London by Randolph Trumbach. Another review. And another review. Review by Lucy Moore. Extracts and description at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Sex Death and Punishment: Attitudes to sex and sexuality in Britain since the Renaissance by Richard Davenport-Hines. Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880, by Lesley Hall. Author's response. Available from Amazon.co.uk Sex, Literature and Censorship by Jonathan Dollimore, who has renounced queer theory. Available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D'Emilio The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism by Mark D. Jordan. Extracts and detailed readers' reviews at Amazon.com Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior by Tim Bergling. Author's website Sodom and Gomorrah: On the everyday reality and persecution of homosexuals in the Middle Ages by Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller. Available from Amazon.co.uk The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire by Cameron McFarlane. Review Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by Barry Richard Burg Sodomy, Masculinity and Love in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2004) by William E. Burgwinkle. Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter (St. Martin's Press, 2004). Badpuppy Review Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 by Jaye Zimet (with a Foreword by Ann Bannon). Readers's reviews at Amazon.com Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb (Picador, 2003). Reviews in The Guardian; The Independent; Newsday; New Statesman; and Village Voice. Strapped for Cash : A History of American Hustler Culture by Mark Friedman (Alyson, 2003). A history of 400 years of homosexual hustling in the New World. See also Review Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman. Available from Amazon.com Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama by Jeffrey Masten. Available from Amazon.com To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America — A History by Lillian Faderman. Extracts and reviews at Amazon.com Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg. Available from Amazon.co.uk Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes by Don Kulick (University of Chicago Press, 1998) Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America by Rodger Streitmatter Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon, with gallery of decadent and gay art, including Magnus Hirschfeld in part-drag Edmund White reviews Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton; Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World by Nicholas C. Edsall; Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz; Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century by Graham Robb; Queer Street: Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985 by James McCourt; Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography by John Ibson; and The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall edited by Terry Castle. Who's a Pretty Boy Then?: 150 Years of Gay Life in Pictures, by James Gardiner Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II by Robert Aldrich (ed.) and Garry Wotherspoon (ed.). Also Vol. 2: From World War Two to the Present Day. Available from Amazon.com Who's Who in Lesbian & Gay Writing ed. Gabriele Griffin (Routledge, 2002) Women in the Shadows: Lesbian Pulp Fiction Collection, a bibliography of texts and sources, ed. Ann Bannon. 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