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LGBTQ+ History Month: A Reading List

Check out these books about the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people for LGBT History Month and all year-round.

Chicago Public Library

44 items

  • An Angel in Sodom

    Henry Gerber and the Birth of the Gay Rights Movement

    Elledge, Jim, 1950-
    BookChicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2023] — HQ75.8.G47E45 2023
  • BookNew York : Seal Press, 2022. — HQ18.55.H49 2022
  • Black on Both Sides

    a Racial History of Trans Identity

    Snorton, C. Riley,
    PaperbackMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017] — HQ77.95.U6S66 2017
  • The Boys of Fairy Town

    Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago's First Century

    Elledge, Jim, 1950-
    BookChicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, [2018] — HQ76.3.U52I4445 2018
  • Chicago Whispers

    a History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall

    De la Croix, St. Sukie
    PaperbackMadison : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2012. — HQ76.3.U52I443 2012
  • Coming Out Under Fire

    the History of Gay Men and Women in World War II

    Bérubé, Allan
    BookChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [c2010] — D769.2.B46 2010
  • The Deviant's War

    the Homosexual Vs. the United States of America

    Cervini, Eric, 1992-
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — HQ75.8.K35C47 2020
  • Eating Fire

    My Life as a Lesbian Avenger

    Cogswell, Kelly
    PaperbackMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014] — HQ75.4.C64A3 2014
  • Eminent Outlaws

    the Gay Writers Who Changed America

    Bram, Christopher
    BookNew York : Twelve, 2012. — PS153.G38B73 2012
  • Fire Island

    a Century in the Life of An American Paradise /

    Parlett, Jack, 1992-
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2022] — F127.S9P32 2022
  • BookSan Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2022] — HQ76.25.S397 2022
  • BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — HQ76.L55 2021
  • Gay Berlin

    Birthplace of a Modern Identity

    Beachy, Robert,
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. — HQ76.2.G42B43 2014
  • The Gay Revolution

    the Story of the Struggle

    Faderman, Lillian,
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2015. — HQ76.8.U5F33 2015
  • Glitter and Concrete

    a Cultural History of Drag in New York City

    Goodman, Elyssa Maxx
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2023] — HQ77.2.U6G66 2023
  • BookNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] — F869.S353M5453 2018
  • Hold Tight Gently

    Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS

    Duberman, Martin B.,
    BookNew York : The New Press, 2014. — RC606.54.D83 2014
  • Indecent Advances

    a Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall

    Polchin, James,
    BookBerkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2019. — HV6168.P65 2019