BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY Compiled by Rictor Norton
INDEX: [General History] [Anthologies] [Lesbian: General] [Pre-Modern Lesbian] [Modern Lesbian] [Literary History] [Language] [Theory] [Art and Film [Famous Homosexuals] [Anthropology] [Ancient] [Medieval] [Early Modern] [Renaissance] [European] [English Early Modern] [English Modern] [German] [Dutch] [French] [Spain & Portugal] [Pre-Modern American] [Modern American] [China, India and Japan] [Middle East] [Latin America] [Africa] [Colonian and Non-European] Updated 28 January 2006

Anthologies

The Alyson Almanac: A Treasury of Information for the Gay and Lesbian Community
Boston: Alyson, 1989, 1990.
Anderson, Patrick and Sutherland, Alistair (eds)
Eros: An Anthology of Male Friendship. London: Anthony Blond, 1961.
Beurdeley, Cecile
L'Amour bleu, trans. Michael Taylor. Koln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1994.
Carpenter, Edward
Iolaus: An Anthology of Friendship, 2nd ed. (enlarged). London: George Allen & Unwin, 1906. (1st edn was 1902)
Coote, Stephen (ed.)
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse. Penguin Books, 1983.
Faderman, Lillian (ed.)
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. New York: Viking Penguin, 1994.
Farrer, Peter
In Female Disguise. Karn Publications, c 1990. Excerpts from literature illustrating cross-dressing. Interesting examples from Sir Walter Scott, Sir Thomas Malory, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, E.F. Benson, Mrs Gaskell, Conan Doyle, Kipling, a work called Boy or Girl? published in 1903. Plus numerous articles, letters and stories about cross dressing in popular magazines 1880-1900, a selection previously published in Farrer's book Men in Petticoats, 1987.
Font, Byrne R.S. (ed.)
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present Day. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Fone, Byrne R.S. (ed.)
Hidden Heritage: History and the Gay Imagination: An Anthology. New York: Avocation Publishers, 1980.
Haggerty, G. (ed.)
Gay Histories and Culture: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland: 2000.
Higgins, Patrick (ed.)
A Queer Reader. London: Fourth Estate, 1993.
Leyland, Winston (ed.)
Angels of the Lyre: A Gay Poetry Anthology. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine, 1975.
Leyland, Winston (ed.)
Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine, An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics and Culture. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1991.
Leyland, Winston (ed.)
Gay Roots: An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics and Culture, Volume 2. San Franciso: Gay Sunshine Press, 1993.
Leyland, Winston (ed.)
Orgasms of Light. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine, 1977. (Gay poetry)
Mitchell, Mark and Leavitt, David
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914. London: Chatto & Windus, 1998.
Norton, Rictor (ed.)
My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1997.
Reade, Brian (ed.)
Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850 to 1900: An Anthology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970.
Roscoe, Will (coordinator)
Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Gay American Indians History Project. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
Rutledge, Leigh W.
The Gay Book of Lists. Boston: Alyson, 1987.
Rutledge, Leigh W.
The Gay Fireside Companion. Boston: Alyson, 1989.
Rutledge, Leigh W.
Unnatural Quotations. Boston: Alyson, 1988.
Saint, Assotto (ed.)
The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets. New York: Galiens Press, 1991.
Sutherland, Alistair, and Anderson, Patrick (eds)
Eros: An Anthology of Male Friendship. New York: Citadel, 1963 (orig. London: Anthony Blond, 1961).
Wilhelm, James J. (ed.)
Gay and Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology from Sappho to Michelangelo. New York: Garland, 1995.
Young, Ian (ed.)
The Male Muse: A Gay Anthology. Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, 1973. (Also Son of the Male Muse: New Gay Poetry, 1983).

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