BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY Compiled by Rictor Norton
INDEX: [General History] [Anthologies] [Lesbian: General] [Pre-Modern Lesbian] [Modern Lesbian] [Literary History] [Language] [Art & Film] [Theory] [Famous Homosexuals] [Anthropology] [Ancient] [Medieval] [Early Modern] [Renaissance] [English Early Modern] [English Modern] [German] [Dutch] [French] [Spain & Portugal] [Pre-Modern American] [Modern American] [China, India and Japan] [Middle East] [Latin America] [Africa] [Colonial and Non-European]
Updated 27 February 2011

Miscellaneous European History

Russian History

Healey, Dan
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Review
Karlinsky, Simon
"Russia's gay history and literature from the eleventh to the twentieth centures", in Leyland, Gay Roots (1991), pp. 81-104.
Karlinsky, Simon
"Russia's gay literature and culture: the impact of the October Revolution", in Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson (eds), History of Homosexuality in Europe and America, New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 165-91. Reprinted in Duberman et al., Hidden from History, 1989, pp. 347-64.
Tuller, David
Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia.
Watton, Lindsay F.
"Constructs of sin and Sodom in Russian Modernism, 1906-1909", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 4(3) (1994), pp. 369-94.

Scandinavian History

Gade, Kari Ellen
"Homosexuality and rape of males in Old Norse law and literature", Scandinavian Studies, 58 (1986): 124-41.
Liliequist, Jonas
"State policy, popular discourse, and the silence on homosexual acts in early modern Sweden", Journal of Homosexuality, 35 (1998): 15-52.
Rydstrom, Jens
Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 1880-1950 (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Detailed review
Rydsdtröm, Jens and Mustola, Kati, eds.
Criminally Queer: Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia, 1842-1999 (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2007)
Sørensen, Preben Meulengracht
The Unmanly Man: Concepts of Sexual Defamation in Early Northern Society, Odense University Press, 1983.
Ström, Folke
Nid, ergi and Old Norse moral attitudes, The Dorothea Coke Memorial Lecture in Northern Studies delivered 10 May 1973, published by The Viking Society for Northern research.
Vanggaard, Thorkil
Phallos: A Symbol and Its History in the Male World. New York: International Universities Press, 1973.

Scottish Gay History

Dempsey, Brian
"They were a bit, ken, 'thon wey', Part 1", History Scotland, Vol. 9, No. 5, September/October 2009.
Dempsey, Brian
"They were a bit, ken, 'thon wey', Part 2", History Scotland, Vol. 9, No. 6, November/December 2009, pp. 46-53.

See also:

Dutch History
German History
French History
Spain & Portugal
Medieval History
Renaissance History
Early Modern History

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