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Canada

Kinsman, Gary, 1996.  The Regulation of Desire:  Homo and Hetero Sexualities.  Montreal:  Black Rose Books.  This book is the revised edition of Kinsman's 1987 The Regulation of Desire:  Sexuality in Canada.

Maynard, Steven, 1994.  "Through a Hole in the Lavatory Wall:  Homosexual Subcultures, Police Surveillance, and the Dialectics of Discovery, Toronto, 1890-1930."  Journal of the History of Sexuality, v. 5 no. 2.

McLeod, Donald W., 1996.  Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada:  A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964-1975.  Toronto:  EDW Books.

Sylvestre, Paul-François, 1979.  Les Homosexuels  s'Organisent.   Montreal:  Editions Homeureux.  [A history of gay liberation in Canada]

Sylvestre, Paul-François, 1983.  Bougrerie en Nouvelle-France.  Hull: Editions Asticou. [A history of homosexual acts in Canada before 1760]

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Denmark

Rosen, Wilhelm von, 1988.  "Sodomy in Early Modern Denmark:    A Crime Without Victims."  Journal of Homosexuality, v. 16 nos. 1 and 2.

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England

Bouce, Paul Gabriel, ed., 1982.  Sexuality in 18th Century Britain.  Manchester:  Manchester University Press.

Bourne, Stephen, 1996.  Brief Encounters:  Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema, 1930-1971.  London:  Cassell.

Bray, Alan, 1982.  Homosexuality in Renaissance England.    London:  Gay Men's Press.

Bray, Alan, 1990.  "Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England."  History Workshop.  Issue 29, Spring 1990.

Bray, Alan, 1997.  "The Curious Case of Michael Wigglesworth." in Martin Duberman., ed., A Queer World.

Committee on Homosexual Offenses and Prostitution, 1957.  Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offenses and Prostitution.  London:  Her Majesty's Stationery Office.  Reprinted 1963 as The Wolfenden Report:    Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offenses and Prostitution.  New York:  Stein and Day.

Donoghue, Emma, 1993.  Passions Between Women:  British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Dowling, Linda, 1994.  Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press.

Dubro, James, 1976.  "The Third Sex:  Lord Hervey and His Coterie."  Eighteenth Century Life v. 2 no. 4.

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

Gilbert, Arthur N., 1974.  "The Africaine Courts-Martial:    A Study of Buggery and the Royal Navy."  Journal of Homosexuality, v. 1 no. 1.

Gilbert, Arthur N.  "Buggery and the British Navy, 1700-1861."  Journal of Social History V. 10.  Reprinted in Dynes and Donaldson, eds., History of Homosexuality in Europe and America.

Gillis, John R., 1985.  "Married but not Churched:    Plebeian Sexual Relations and Marital Non-conformity in Eighteenth-Century Britain."  Eighteenth Century Life v. 9 no. 3.

Goldsmith, Netta Murray, 1998.  The Worst of Crimes:  Homosexuality and the Law in Eighteenth-Century London.  Aldershot:  Ashgate.

Grey, Antony, 1997.  Speaking Out:  Writings on Sex, Law, Politics, and Society, 1954-1995.  London:  Cassell.

Hall, Lesley A., 1992.  "Forbidden by God, Despised by Men:    Masturbation, Medical Warnings, Moral Panic, and Manhood in Great Britain, 1850-1950."  Journal of the History of Sexuality, v. 2 no. 3.

Hamer, Emily, 1996.  Britannia's Glory:  A History of 20th Century Lesbians.  London:  Cassell.

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

Hyde, H. Montgomery, 1970.  The Other Love:  An Historical and Contemporary Survey of Homosexuality in Britain.  London:    Heinemann.  Published in the U. S. as The Love that Dared Not Speak Its Name:  A Candid History of Homosexuality in Britain.  Boston:   Little, Brown.

Hyde, H. Montgomery, 1976.  The Cleveland Street Scandal.    New York:  Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.

Jeffery-Poulter, Stephen, 1991.  Peers, Queers, and Commons:    The Struggle for Gay Law Reform from 1950 to the Present.  New York:   Routledge.

Jivani, Alkarim, 1997.  It's Not Unusual:  A History of Lesbian and Gay Britain in the Twentieth Century.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press.

Johnstone, J. K., 1954.  The Bloomsbury Group:  A Study of E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Wolff and their Circle.  New York:    Noonday Press.

Karras, Ruth Mazo and David Lorenzo Boyd, 1996.  "'Ut Cum Muliere':  A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London.  In Fradenburg and Freccero, eds., Premodern Sexualities.

Kimmel, Michael S., 1990. "'Greedy Kisses' and 'Melting Extasy':    Notes on the Homosexual World of Early 18th Century England as Found in Love Letter Between a certain late Nobleman and the famous Mr. Wilson.Journal of Homosexuality v. 19 no. 2.

Marcus, Steven, 1966.  The Other Victorians:  A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England.  London:    Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

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

McFarlane, Cameron, 1997.  The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire 1660-1750.  New York:  Columbia University Press.

Norton, Rictor, 1992.  Mother Clap's Molly House:  The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830.  London:  GMP.

Patterson, Craig, 1997.  "The Rage of Caliban:    Eighteenth-Century Molly Houses and the Twentieth Century Search for Sexual Identity" in Di Piero and Gill's Illicit Sex.

Porter, Roy, 1982.  "Mixed Feelings:  the Enlightenment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain."  in Bouce, ed., Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

Porter, Roy, 1985.  "'The Secrets of Generation Display'd':    Aristotle's Master-piece in Eighteenth-Century England."  Eighteenth Century Life v. 9 no. 3.

Porter, Roy, 1995.  "Forbidden Pleasures:    Enlightenment Literature of Sexual Advice." in Bennet and Rosario, Solitary Pleasures.

Porter, Roy and Lesley Hall, 1995.  The Facts of Life:    The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.  New Haven:    Yale University Press.

Power, Lisa, 1995.  No Bath but Plenty of Bubbles:  An Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front 1970-1973.  New York:  Cassel.

Quaife, G. R., 1979.  Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives.    New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers.

Reade, Brian, ed., 1970.  Sexual Heretics:  Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850 to 1900.  An Anthology Selected with an Introduction by Brian Reade.  New York:  Coward-McCann.

Rousseau, G. S., 1985.  "The Pursuit of Homosexuality in the Eighteenth Century:  'Utterly Confused Category' and/or Rich Repository."  Eighteenth Century Life, v. 9 No. 3.

Rousseau, G. S., 1988.  "'In the House of Madam Vander Tasse, on the Long Bridge':  A Homosocial University Club in Early Modern Europe."  Journal of Homosexuality, v. 16 nos. 1 and 2.

Rowbotham, Sheila and Jeffrey Weeks, 1977.  Socialism and the New Life:  The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis.    London:  Pluto Press.

Rubini, Dennis, 1988.  "Sexuality and Augustan England:    Sodomy, Politics, Elite Circles and Society."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 16 nos. 1 and 2.

Senelick, Laurence, 1990.  "Mollies or Men of Mode?    Sodomy and the Eighteenth-Century London Stage."  Journal of the History of Sexuality, v. 1 no. 1.

Simpson, Colin, Lewis Chester, and David Leitch, 1976.  The Cleveland Street Affair.  Boston:  Little, Brown.

Stone, Lawrence, 1977.  The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800.  New York:  Harper and Row.

Thompson, Roger, 1979.  Unfit for Modest Ears:  A Study of Pornographic, Obscene and Bawdy Works Written or Published in England in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century.  London:  Macmillan.

Trumbach, Randolph, 1978.  The Rise of the Egalitarian Family:  Aristocratic Kinship and Domestic Relations in Eighteenth-Century England.    New York:  Academic Press.

Trumbach, Randolph, 1985.  "Sodomitical Subcultures, Sodomitical Roles, and the Gender Revolution of  the Eighteenth Century:  The Recent Historiography."  Eighteenth Century Life, v. 9 No. 3.

Trumbach, Randolph, 1988.  "Sodomitical Assaults, Gender Role, and Sexual Development in Eighteenth-Century London."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 16 nos. 1 and 2.

Trumbach, Randolph, 1989.  "Gender and the Homosexual Role in Modern Western Culture:  The 18th and 19th Centuries Compared." in Dennis Altman et al., Homosexuality, Which Homosexuality?

Trumbach, Randolph, 1990.  "Sodomy Transformed:    Aristocratic Libertinage, Public Reputation and the Gender Revolution of the 18th Century."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 19 no. 2.

Trumbach, Randolph, 1990.  "The Birth of the Queen:    Sodomy and the Emergence of Gender Equality in Modern Culture, 1660-1750." in Duberman et al., Hidden from History.

Trumbach, Randolph, 1991.  "Sex, Gender, and Sexual Identity in Modern Culture:  Male Sodomy and Female Prostitution in Enlightenment London."  Journal of the History of Sexuality v. 2 no. 2.

Trumbach, Randolph, 1991.  "Review of Mother Clap's Molly House."  Journal of the History of Sexuality, v. 5 no. 4.

Trumbach, Randolph, 1993.  "London's Sapphists:  From Three Sexes to Four Genders in the Making of Modern Culture" in Gilbert Herdt, ed., Third Sex, Third Gender.

Trumbach, Randolph, 1996.  "Erotic Fantasy and Male Libertinism in Enlightenment England." in Lynn Hunt, ed., The Invention of Pornography.

Trumbach, Randolph, 1998.  Sex and the Gender Revolution:   Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London.  Chicago:   University of Chicago Press.

Weber, Harold M., The Restoration Rake Hero:  Transformation is Sexual Understanding in Seventeeth-Century England.  Madison, WI:   University of Wisconsin Press.

Weeks, Jeffrey, 1977.  Coming Out:  Homosexual Politics in Britain, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present.  London:  Quartet.    Revised Edition published 1990, London:  Quartet.

Weeks, Jeffrey, 1980.  "Inverts, Perverts, and Mary-Annes:    Male Prostitution and the Regulation of Homosexuality in England in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries."  Journal of Homosexuality, v. 6 nos. 1 and 2.  Reprinted in Duberman et al., Hidden From History.

Weeks, Jeffrey, 1989.  Sex, Politics, and Society:  The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800.  Second Edition.  London:    Longman.

Westwood, Gordon, 1960.  A Minority:  A Report on the Life of the Male Homosexual in Great Britain.  London:  Longmans.

White, Chris, ed., 1999.  Nineteenth Century Writings on Homosexuality:  A Sourcebook.  London:  Routledge.

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France

Coward, D. A., 1980.  "Attitudes to Homosexuality in Eighteenth-century France."  Journal of European Studies, v. 10, no. 40.  Reprinted in Dynes and Donaldson, eds., History of Homosexuality in Europe and America.

Delon, Michel, 1985.  "The Priest, the Philosopher, and Homosexuality in Enlightenment France."  Eighteenth Century Life v. 9 no. 3.

Farr, James R., 1995.  Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy (1550-1730).  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Goulemot, Jean-Marie, 1985.  "Sexual Imagination in the Traite des superstitions of Abbe Jean-Baptiste Thiers."  Eighteenth Century Life, v. 9 no. 3.

Guicciardi, Jean-Pierre.  1985.  "Between the Licit and the Illicit:  the Sexuality of the King."  Eighteenth Century Life v. 9 no. 3.

Lesselier, Claudie, 1993.  "Silenced Resistances and Conflicutal Identities:  Lesbians in France, 1930-1968."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 25 nos. 1 and 2.

Merrick, Jeffrey and Bryant T. Ragan, eds., 1996. Homosexuality in Modern France.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Penniston, William Anthony, 1996.  "Love and Death in Gay Paris:  Homosexuality and Criminality in the 1870s."  in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France.

Peniston, William Anthony, 1997.  "'Pederasts and Others:' A Social History of Male Homosexuals in the Early Years of the French Third Republic."    Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Rochester.  Ann Arbor:   University Microfilms.

Ragan, Bryant T., "The Enlightenment Confronts Homosexuality." in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France.

Rey, Michel, 1985.  "Parisian Homosexuals Create a Lifestyle, 1700-1750:  The Police Archives."  Eighteenth Century Life, v. 9 No. 3.

Rey, Michel, 1988.  "Police and Sodomy in Eighteenth Century Paris:  From Sin to Disorder."  Journal of Homosexuality, v. 16 nos. 1 and 2.

Rosario, Vernon A., 1995.  "Phantastical Pollutions:    The Public Threat of Private Vice in France."  in Bennet and Rosario, Solitary Pleasures.

Rosario, Vernon A., 1996.  "Pointy Penises, Fashion Crimes, and Hysterical Mollies:  The Pederasts' Perversions."  in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France.

Rosario, Vernon A., 1997.  The Erotic Imagination:    French Histories of Perversity.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Rosario, Vernon A.. 1997.  "Inversion's Histories | History's Inversions:  Novelizing Fin-de-Siecle Homosexuality." in Vernon Rosario, ed., Science and Homosexualities.

Sibalis, Michael D., 1996.  "The Regulation of Male Homosexuality in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1789-1815."  in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France.

Tarczylo, Theodore.  "Moral Values in 'La Suite de l'Entretien'."  Eighteenth Century Life v. 9 no. 3.

Thompson, Victoria, 1996.  "Creating Boundaries:    Homosexuality and the Changing Social Order in France, 1830-1970."   in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France.

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Germany

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

Faderman, Lillian and Brigitte Eriksson, 1990.  Lesbians in Germany:  1890's-1920's, Second Edition.  Tallahassee, FL:  Naiad.

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.

Fout, John C., 1992.  "Sexual Politics in Wilhelmine Germany:  The Male Gender Crisis, Moral Purity, and Homophobia."  Journal of the History of Sexuality, v. 2. no. 3.

Haeberle, Erwin J., 1990.  "Swastika, Pink Triangle, and Yellow Star:  The Destruction of Sexology and the Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany." in Duberman et al., Hidden From History.

Heger, Heinz, 1980.  The Men With the Pink Triangle:    The True, Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps.  Boston: Alyson. Reprinted 1994.

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

Hull, Isabel V., 1996.  Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press.

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

Kennedy, Hubert, 1993.  "Twilight of the Gods:  John Henry Mackay's Der Unschuldige.Journal of Homosexuality v. 26 no. 1.

Lauritsen, John and David Thorstad, 1995.  The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935).  Ojai, CA:  Times Change Press.

Lautmann, Rutiger, 1990.  "Categorization in Concentration Camps as a Collective Fate:  A Comparison of Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and Political Prisoners."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 19 no. 1.

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

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

Moeller, Robert G., 1994.  "'The Homosexual Man is a 'Man,' the Homosexual Woman is a 'Woman'":  Sex, Society, and the Law in Postwar West Germany."  Journal of the History of Sexuality, v. 4 no. 3.

Oosterhuis, Harry, ed., Hubert Kennedy, trans., 1991.  Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany:  the Youth Movement, the Gay Movement and Male Bonding before Hitler's Rise:  Original Transcipts from Der Eigene, the First Gay Journal in the World.  New York:  Harrington Park Press.  Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, v. 22, nos. 1 and 2.

Plant, Richard, 1986.  The Pink Triangle:  The Nazi War Against Homosexuals.  New York:  Henry Holt.

Roll, Wolfgang, 1996.  "Homosexual Inmates in the Buchenwald Concentration Camps."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 31 no. 4.

Steakley, James D., 1975.  The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany.  Reprinted 1993, Salem, NH:  Ayer.

Steakley, James D., 1988.  "Sodomy in Enlightenment Prussia:    From Execution to Suicide."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 16 nos. 1 and 2.

Steakley, James D., 1990.  "Iconography of a Scandal:    Political Cartoons and the Eulenburg Affair in Wilhelmin Germany." in Duberman et al., Hidden From History.

Steakley, James D., 1999.  "Cinema and Censorship in the Weimar Republic: The Case of Anders als die Andern." Film History v. 11, pp. 181-203.

Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich, 1994.  The Riddle of 'Man-Manly' Love:  The Pioneering Work on Male Homosexuality.  Michael A. Lombardi- Nash, trans.  Buffalo:  Prometheus Books.

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Italy

Rocke, Michael, 1996.  Forbidden Friendships:   Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence.  New York:   Oxford University Press.

Ruggiero, Guido, 1985.  The Boundaries of Eros.  Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

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The Netherlands

Boon, L. J., 1988.  "Those Damned Sodomites:  Public Images of Sodomy in the Eighteenth Century Netherlands."  Journal of Homosexuality, v. 16 nos. 1 and 2.

Hekma, Gert, 1991.  "Homosexual Behavior in the Nineteenth Century Dutch Army."  Journal of the History of Sexuality v. 2 no. 2.

Huusen, Arend H., 1985.  "Sodomy in the Dutch Republic during the Eighteenth Century."  Eighteenth Century Life, v.9 no. 3 reprinted in Duberman et al., Hidden from History.

Lombardi-Nash, Michael, ed. and trans.  Emanuel Valk (1697-1732).  The Trial of a Gay Preacher in Eighteenth-Century Holland.  A Dossier.  Jacksonville:  Urania Manuscripts.

Oosterhof, Jan, 1988.  "Sodomy at Sea and at the Cape of Good Hope During the Eighteenth Century."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 16 nos. 1 and 2.

Schuyf, Judith, 1987.  "Lesbian Emancipation in The Netherlands."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 13 nos. 2 and 3.

Tielman, Rob, 1987.  "Dutch Gay Emancipation History (1911-1986)."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 13 nos. 2 and 3.

van der Meer, Theo, 1988.  "The Persecutions of Sodomites in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam:  Changing Perceptions of Sodomy."  Journal of Homosexuality, v. 16 nos. 1 and 2.

van der Meer, Theo, 1991.  "Tribades on Trial:  Female Same-Sex Offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam."  Journal of the History of Sexuality, v. 1 no. 3.

van der Meer, Theo, 1993.  "Sodomy and the Pursuit of a Third Sex in the Early Modern Period" in Gilbert Herdt, ed., Third Sex, Third Gender.

van der Meer, Theo, 1997.  "Sodom's Seed in The Netherlands:    The Emergence of Homosexuality in the Early Modern Period."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 34 no. 1.

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United States

Alwood, Edward.  Straight News:  Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media.  New York:  Columbia.

Beemyn, Brett, 1997.  "A Queer Capital:  Race, Class, Gender, and the Changing Social Landscape of Washington's Gay Communities." In Brett Beemyn, ed., Creating a Place for Ourselves.

Beemyn, Brett, ed., 1997.  Creating a Place for Ourselves:   Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories.  New York:   Routledge.

Berube, Allan, 1990.  "Marching to a Different Drummer:    Lesbian and Gay GIs in World War II." in Duberman et al., Hidden from History.

Berube, Allan, 1991.  Coming Out Under Fire:  The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two.  New York:  Plume.

Boyd, Nan Alamilla, 1997.  "'Homos Invade S.F.!': San Francisco's History as a Wide-Open Town." in Brett Beemyn, ed., Creating a Place for Ourselves.

Boyer, Paul S., 1968. Purity in Print:  The Vice-Society Movement and Book Censorship in America.  New York:  Scribner's. 

Bullough, Vern L., 1986.  "Lesbianism, Homosexuality, and the American Civil Liberties Union."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 13 no. 1.

Chauncey, George, 1990. "Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion?  Homosexual Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era." in Duberman et al., Hidden From History.

Chauncey, George, 1991.  "The Policed:  Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday Resistance." in William R. Taylor,ed., Inventing Times Square:  Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World.  Baltimore:    Johns Hopkins University Press.

Chauncey, George, 1994.  Gay New York:  Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940.  New York:  Basic Books.

Chauncey, George, 1997.  "The Policed:  Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday Resistance in Times Square."  in Brett Beemyn, ed., Creating a Place for Ourselves.

Clendinen, Dudley and Adam Nagourney, 1999.  Out For Good:  The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America.  New York:  Simon and Schuster.

Crompton, Louis, 1976.  "Homosexuals and the Death Penalty in Colonial America."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 1 no. 3.

Crompton, Louis, 1980.  "The Myth of Lesbian Impunity:    Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 6 nos. 1 and 2.

Curtin, Kaier, 1987.  We can Always Call them Bulgarians:    The Emergence of Lesbians and Gay Men on the American Stage.  Boston:  Alyson.

Daughters of Bilitis.  1955-.  The Ladder.  Reprinted in its entirety, New York:  Arno.

D'Emilio, John, 1983.  Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities:    The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970.  Chicago:    University of Chicago Press.

D'Emilio, John, 1990.  "Gay Politics and Community in San Francisco Since World War II."  in Duberman et al., Hidden From History.

D'Emilio, John and Estelle Freedman, 1988.  Intimate Matters:    A History of Sexuality in America.  New York:  Harper and Row.

Drexel, Allen, 1997.  "Before Paris Burned:  Race, Class, and Male Homosexuality on the Chicago South Side, 1935-1960." in Brett Beemyn, ed., Creating a Place for Ourselves.

Duberman, Martin, 1993.  Stonewall.  New York:    Plume.

Faderman, Lillian, 1991.  Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers:    A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America.  New York:    Penguin.

Faderman, Lillian, 1999.  To Believe in Women.  What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin.

Feinberg, Leslie, 1996.  Transgender Warriors:  Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman.  Boston:  Beacon.

Garber, Eric, 1990.  "A Spectacle in Color:  The Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age Harlem." in Duberman et al., Hidden From History.

Gerassi, John, 1966.  The Boys of Boise.  New York:    Macmillan.

Gittings, Barbara, 1991.  "Gays in Library Land."  Women Library Workers Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3.  Reprinted in James Carmichael, ed., 1998.  Daring to Find Our Names:  The Search for Lesbigay Library History.  Greenwood.

Gustav-Wrathall, John, 1998.  Take the Stranger by the Hand:   Same-Sex Relations at the YMCA.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Haeberle, Erwin J., 1984.  "A movement of Inverts:  An Early Plan for a Homosexual Organization in the United States."  Journal of Homosexuality, v. 10 nos. 1 and 2.

History Project, The, 1998.  Improper Bostonians:    Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland.  Boston:    Beacon Press.

Howard, John, ed., 1997.  Carryin' On in the Lesbian and Gay South.  New York:  NYU Press.

Howard, John, 1997.  "Place and Movement in Gay American History:  A Case from the Post-War South." in Brett Beemyn, ed., Creating a Place for Ourselves.

Howard, John, 1999.  Men Like That:  A Southern Queer History.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

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

Johnson, David K., 1995. "'Homosexual Citizens':  Washington's Gay Community Confronts the Civil Service," Washington History, v. 6 Fall/Winter. 

Johnson, David K., 1997.  "The Kids of Fairytown:  Gay Male Culture on Chicago's Near North Side in the 1930s."  in Brett Beemyn, ed., Creating a Place for Ourselves.

Kaiser, Charles, 1997.  The Gay Metropolis 1940-1996.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin.

Katz, Jonathan Ned, 1992.  Gay American History:    Lesbians and Gay Men in the U. S. A., Revised Edition.  New York:    Meridian.

Katz, Jonathan Ned., 1983.  Gay/Lesbian Almanac:  A New Documentary.  New York:  Harper and Row.

Katz, Jonathan Ned, 1997.  "Coming to Terms:    Conceptualizing Men's Erotic and Affectional Relations with Men in the United States, 1820-1892." in Martin Duberman, ed., A Queer World.

Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky and Madeline D. Davis, 1993.  Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold:  The History of a Lesbian Community.  New York:  Penguin Books.

Kepner, Jim, 1998.  Rough News, Daring Views:  1950s' Pioneer Gay Press Journalism.  New York:  Harrington Park Press.

Lait, Jack and Lee Mortimer, 1950.  Chicago Confidential.   New York:  Crown.

Lait, Jack and Lee Mortimer, 1951.  New York Confidential, Revised Edition.  New York:  Crown.  First Published 1948.

Lait, Jack and Lee Mortimer, 1951.  Washington Confidential.   New York:  Crown.

Legg, W. Dorr, 1994.  Homophile Studies in Theory and Practice.  San Francisco:  One Institute Press and GLB Publishers.

Loughery, John, 1998.  The Other Side of Silence:  Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History.  New York:  Henry Holt.

Marcus, Eric, 1992.  Making History:  The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990.  An Oral History. New York:    Harper Perennial.

Masters, R. E. L.,  1962.  The Homosexual Revolution:    A Challenging Expose of the Social and Political Directions of a Minority Group.   New York:  Julian.

Mattachine Review, 1955-.  Reprinted in 1975 by Arno Press, New York.

Miller, Neil, 1995.  Out of the Past:  Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present.  New York:  Vintage Books.

Murphy, Lawrence R., 1990.  "Defining the Crime Against Nature:  Sodomy in the United States Appeals Courts, 1810-1940."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 19 no. 1.

Nardi, Peter M., David Sanders, and Judd Marmor, 1994.  Growing Up Before Stonewall:  Life Stories of Some Gay Men.  New York:    Routledge.

National Museum and Archive of Lesbian and Gay History, 1996.  The Gay Almanac.  New York:  Berkley Books.

Newton, Esther, 1972.  Mother Camp:  Female Impersonators in America.  Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice Hall.

Newton, Esther, 1993.  Cherry Grove, Fire Island.  Boston:    Beacon.

Noordam, Dirk Jaap, 1988.  "Sodomy in the Dutch Republic, 1600-1725."  Journal of Homosexuality, v. 16 nos. 1 and 2.

Oaks, Robert, 1979.  "Perceptions of Homosexuality by Justices of the Peace in Colonial Virginia."  Journal of Homosexuality vol.5 nos. 1 and 2.

Posner, Richard A., and Katharine B. Silbaugh, 1996.  A Guide to America's Sex Laws.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

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