Best Gay and Lesbian Non Fiction

List issued in June 2004 by Publishing Triangle, a group consisting of more than 250 gay and lesbian writers, editors, agents, and publishers. (http://www.quatrefoillibrary.org/materials/nonfiction.php)
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the 14th Century by John Boswell	Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin	Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the USA--A Documentary by Jonathan Ned Katz	The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault	Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970 by John D'Emilio	This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua	Symposium by Plato	Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde	Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler	Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman	Christopher and His Kind, 1929–1939 by Christopher Isherwood	The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo	The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein	The Homosexuality of Men and Women by Magnus Hirschfeld	And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts	Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon	Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds	Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick	Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud
Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary in which is contained, in chronological order, evidence of the true and fantastical history of those persons now called lesbians and gay men by Jonathan Ned Katz	Borderlands = La Frontera by Gloria E. Anzaldua	The Wolfenden Report: Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution	Reports from the Holocaust: The Making of an AIDS Activist by Larry Kramer	Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 by George Chauncey	Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell	Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two by Allan Bérubé	Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, edited by Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey	Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, and Paul Gebhard	Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
De Profundis [Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis] by Oscar Wilde	The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women by Edward Carpenter	Sex-Variant Women in Literature by Jeannette H. Foster	The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach by Donald Webster Cory	Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation by Dennis Altman	Sexual Politics by Kate Millett	The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir	Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein	Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette	The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain by Jeffrey Weeks	A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle	A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf	The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, edited by Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin	Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany	The Straight Mind and Other Essays by Monique Wittig	Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution by Jill Johnston	Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis	The Construction of Homosexuality by David F. Greenberg	Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America by John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman
Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality by Pat Califia	Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó sus Labios by Cherríe Moraga	Phaedrus by Plato	The Joy of Gay Sex: An Intimate Guide for Gay Men to the Pleasures of a Gay Lifestyle by Charles Silverstein and Edmund White	Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America by Esther Newton	Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China by Bret Hinsch	The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany by James Steakley	Being Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development by Richard A. Isay	In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote	This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart by Peter J. Gomes	The First and Second Books of Samuel (David and Jonathan)	My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley	Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men by Gabriel Rotello	Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence by Michael Rocke	Male Colors: The Construction of Male Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan by Gary P. Leupp	Positively Gay: New Approaches to Gay and Lesbian Life, edited by Betty Berzon	What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel Helminiak	Studies in the History of the Renaissance by Walter Pater	The History of Ancient Art by Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America by Lillian Faderman	Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation, edited by Karla Jay and Allen Young	The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary--A Non-fiction Account, with Commentaries, of 3 Days and Nights in the Sexual Underground by John Rechy	Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas	The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp	Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places by Laud Humphreys	Genet: A Biography by Edmund White	Cherry Grove, Fire Island: 60 Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town by Esther Newton	Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey by Martin Duberman	Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook	Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder by Harry Hay	A Problem in Greek Ethics by John Addington Symonds	The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig	Corydon by André Gide	Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature by Dorothy Allison	Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul by Leslie Feinberg	Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn	Inventing AIDS by Cindy Patton	The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom by Barbara Smith
Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton	Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory edited by Michael Warner	Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism by Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Barbara Smith	Men like That: A Southern Queer History by John Howard	Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th-Century England by Louis Crompton	The Pursuit of Sodomy: Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe edited by Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma	Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power by Michelangelo Signorile	United States: Essays, 1952–1992 by Gore Vidal	The Leatherman's Handbook by Larry Townsend	Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience edited by Russell Leong

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