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Allen, Gay Wilson, 1965.  The Solitary Singer:   A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman.  New York:  New York University Press.

Allen, Michael S., 1995.  "Sullivan's Closet:  A Reappraisal of Harry Stack Sullivan's Life and His Pioneering Role in American Psychiatry."  Journal of Homosexuality, v.29 no. 1.

Asprey, Robert B., 1986.  Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma.  New York:  Ticknor and Fields.

Baker, Michael, 1985.  Our Three Selves:  The Life of Radclyffe Hall.  New York:  William Morrow.

Brome, Vincent, 1979.  Havelock Ellis:  Philosopher of Sex.  A Biography.  London:  Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Campbell, James, 1991.  Talking at the Gates:  A Life of James Baldwin.  New York:  Viking.

Carpenter, Edward, 1906.  Days with Walt Whitman.  New York: Macmillan.

Christenson, C., 1971.  Kinsey:  A Biography.  Bloomington:    Indiana University Press.

Cline, Sally, 1997.  Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John.  New York:  Overlook Press.

Ellingham, Lewis and Kevin Killian, 1998.  Poet Be Like God:   Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance.  Hanover, NH:   University Press of New England.

Ellis, Havelock, 1939, My Life:  Autobiography of Havelock Ellis.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin.

Ellman, Richard, 1988.  Oscar Wilde.  New York:    Knopf.

Emch-Deriaz, Antoinette, 1992.  Tissot:  Physician of the Enlightenment.  New York:  Peter Lang.

Feray, Jean-Claude and Manfred Herzer, 1990.  "Homosexual Studies and Politics in the 19th Century:  Karl Maria Kertbeny" Glen W. Peppel, trans.  Journal of Homosexuality v. 19 no. 1.

Foldy, Michael S., 1997.  The Trials of Oscar Wilde:  Deviance, Morality and Late-Victorian Society.  New Haven:  Yale University Press.

Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan, 1998.  Sex the Measure of All Things:  A Life of Alfred Kinsey.  Bloomington, Indiana:  Indiana University Press.

Gay, Peter, 1988.  Freud:  A Life for Our Time.  New York:  Norton.

Grosskurth, Phyllis, 1964.  John Addington Symonds.    New York:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston.  Reprinted 1975, New York:    Arno.

Grosskurth, Phyllis, 1980.  Havelock Ellis:  A Biography.  London:  Allen Lane.

Herring, Phillip, 1996.  Djuna:  The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes.  New York:  Penguin.

Hertzer, Manfred, 1986.  "Kertbeny and the Nameless Love."  Journal of Homosexuality, v. 12 no. 1.

Hodges, Andrew, 1983.  Alan Turing:  The Enigma.  New York:  Simon and Schuster.

Hoffman, Nicholas von, 1988.  Citizen Cohn.  New York:  Doubleday.

Hyde, H. Montgomery,  ed., 1956.  The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.  New York: University Books.

Hyde, H. Montgomery, 1975.  Oscar Wilde:  A Biography.    New York:  Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.

Hyde, H. Montgomery, 1985.  Lord Alfred Douglas:  A Biography.  New York:  Dodd, Mead and Co.

Jones, Cleve with Jeff Dawson, 2000.  Stitching a Revolution.  The Making of an Activist.  San Francisco:  Harper.

Jones, James H., 1997.  Alfred Kinsey:  A Public/Private Life.  New York:  Norton.

Jorgensen, Christine, 1967.  Christine Jorgensen:  A Personal Autobiography.  New York:  Paul S. Eriksson. [In 2000, Cleis Press released a second edition of this title with a new introduction by Susan Stryker.] 

Kaplan, Justin, 1980.  Walt Whitman:  A Life.  New York:  Simon and Schuster.

Kennedy, Hubert, 1988.  Ulrichs:  The Life and Works of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Pioneer of the Modern Gay Movement.  Boston:    Alyson.

Kennedy, Hubert, 1997.  "Karl Heinrich Ulrichs:  First Theorist of Homosexuality."  In Vernon Rosario, ed., Science and Homosexualities.

MacDonough, Giles, 2000.  Frederick the Great:  A Life in Deeds and Letters.  New York:  St. Martin's.

Mavor, Elizabeth, 1971.  The Ladies of Llangollen:  A Study in Romantic Friendship.  London:  Michael Joseph.  Reprinted 1983, New York:  Penguin.

Mitford, Nancy, 1970.  Frederick the Great.  London:  Penguin.

Pearson, Hesketh, 1937.  Labby (The Life and Character of Henry Labouchere).  New York:  Harper & Bros.

Perry, Helen Swick, 1982.  Psychiatrist of America:  The Life of Harry Stack Sullivan.  Cambridge:  Belknap Press.

Pollard, Patrick, 1991.  Andre Gide:  Homosexual Moralist.  New Haven:  Yale University Press.

Robinson, Paul, 1999.  Gay Lives:  Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Pau Monette.  Chicago:   University of Chicago Press.

Schmidgall, Gary, 1997.  Walt Whitman:  A Gay Life.    New York:  Dutton.

Sheridan, Alan, 1999.  Andre Gide:  A Life in the Present.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press.

Shively, Charles, ed., 1987. Calamus Lovers:  Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados.  San Francisco:  Gay Sunshine.

Souhami, Diana, 1999.  The Trials of Radclyffe Hall.  New York:  Doubleday.

Sulloway, Frank, 1979.  Freud, Biologist of the Mind:   Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend.  New York:  Basic Books.

Symonds, John Addington, 1984, Phyllis Grosskurth, ed.  The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds:  The Secret Homosexual Life of a Leading Nineteenth-Century Man of Letters.  New York:  Random House.

Timmons, Stuart, 1990.  The Trouble with Harry Hay, Founder of the Modern Gay Movement.  Boston:  Alyson.

Troyer, Howard William, 1946.  Ned Ward of Grubstreet.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press.

Tsuzuki, Chuschichi, Edward Carpenter, 1844-1929:  Prophet of Human Fellowship.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Wilde, Oscar, 1996.  De Profundis.  Mineola, NY:  Dover Publications.

Wolff, Charlotte, 1986.  Magnus Hirschfeld:  A Portrait of a Pioneer in Sexology.  London:  Quartet Books.

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