LGBTQ+ People in History
Presentation ONE
Selected Resources by PFLAG
Please remember that this is not the only list of resources to use to learn more, but a selection of a few of the items that were mentioned in the session.
Books and Essays:
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life by Jason H. Jones
Eminent Outlaws: Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video by Raymond Murray
Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement (Stonewall Inn Editions) by Mark Thompson and Randy Shilts
Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Eric Marcus
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier
Out in All Directions: A Treasury of Gay and Lesbian America by Eric Marcus
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
The End of Gay Culture. Published in The New Republic, Oct. 24, 2005. Available at http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/the-end-gay-culture
The Gay Almanac by National Museum & Archive of Lesbian and Gay History
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
The Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio
The Modernization of Sex: Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters and Virginia Johnson by Paul A. Robinson
Transgender History by Susan Stryker
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg
Films:
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community
After Stonewall
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria
Vito
The Celluloid Closet
Milk
How to Survive a Plague
Websites:
LGBT History: http://www.lgbthistorymonth.com/
GLBT History Museum: http://www.glbthistory.org/museum/
ONE Archive: http://www.onearchives.org/