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| Outhouse East Library | 1 / 8 | |||
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 | Coming Out in the Seventies | Homosexuality came out in the seventies. It came out to consumer capitalism, co-option, big business, the movies, books and magazines, music, and in the bars. It came out in schools, libraries and on television. The seventies are over. We can now look at these past ten years of homosexuality and change through the eyes of people who were homosexual in the seventies, and are homosexual for the eighties. | ||
| Dennis Altman | ||||
| 1979 | ||||
| Coming Out, Gay, History, Lesbian, Literary Criticism, Politics | ||||
| Book#: HST001 | ||||
 | City of Sin: London and Its Vices | If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. For over a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice and the sins of the flesh. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned that 'every quarter [of the city] abounds in great obscenities'. As early as the second century AD, London was notorious for its raucous festivities and disorderly houses, and throughout the centuries the bawdy side of life has taken easy root and flourished. In the third book of her fascinating London trilogy, award-winning popular historian Catharine Arnold turns her gaze to the city's relationship with vice through the ages. From the bath houses and brothels of Roman Londinium, to the stews and Molly houses of the 17thand 18thcenturies, London has always traded in the currency of sex. Whether pornographic publishers on Fleet Street, or fancy courtesans parading in Haymarket, its streets have long been witness to colourful sexual behaviour. In her usual accessi... | ||
| Catharine Arnold | ||||
| 2011 | ||||
| History, Sex | ||||
| Book#: HST002 | ||||
 | Lesbian Love: Women in Love Throughout the Ages | Just what is it that causes a woman to be attracted to her own sex? Is it true that lesbians are often bisexual? Is lesbianism rife in women's prisons, in the military and among prostitutes? What can history tell us about the lives of lesbians, and what are their sexual practices? The answers to these and other questions are given within these pages with an unparalleled honesty and authority. The various aspects of lesbian life are examined from historical accounts of lesbianism throughout the ages. From Sappho, the famous poetress of Lesbos, to the Sapphic love affairs of Marie Antoinette and an astonishing discovery in an Austrian nunnery in 1850, this book provides a candid, intimate and erotic picture of lesbian life. | ||
| Walter Braun | ||||
| 1996 | ||||
| History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST003 | ||||
 | Homosexuality in Renaissance England | Writing from within the gay movement, Alan Bray reclaims a chapter in the buried history of homosexuality. In so doing, he explores a crucial period in the evolution of English society from a new and revealing angle. His approach is distinct both from the traditional catalogue of homosexual celebrities, and from those historians for whom homosexuality has only a marginal significance. Alan Bray's concern is with the changing ways homosexuality has was interpreted and expressed in everyday life, which he shows as an integral part of the transformation from the medieval into the modern world. | ||
| Alan Bray | ||||
| 1982 | ||||
| Gay, History | ||||
| Book#: HST004 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 2 / 8 | |||
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 | Familiar Faces Hidden Lives: The Story Of Homosexual Men In America Today | A former senior health-services official speaks honestly and plainly about what it is like to be gay in America. A classic of gay history. | ||
| Howard Brown | ||||
| 1976 | ||||
| Biography, Coming Out, Family, Gay, History, Law, Religion | ||||
| Book#: HST005 | ||||
 | Homosexuality: A History | This ground-breaking study is at once an exploration of the realities of homosexuality in history and an examination of the myths that have grown up around it. The record of practices and prejudices moves from biblical and classical through early and medieval Christian, Renaissance, and Victorian times, to our own era of dramatic changes. We learn of prominent figures who were homosexuals, claimed to understand homosexuality, or both; of the theories that have flourished and faded; of the differing attitudes toward male and female homosexuality; of persecution and its tragic toll; of the chain of events that led to the contemporary opening of the closet doors. We follow the many very different representations of homosexuality from Plato's Academy to Hitler's death camps... from Andre Gide's eloquence to E.M. Forster's lifelong silence... from Krafft-Ebing's pathology to Kinsey's calm reportage... from underground societies to demonstrations in the streets. This far-reaching and fair-mi... | ||
| Vern L. Bullough | ||||
| 1979 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST006 | ||||
 | Portraits to the Wall: Historic Lesbian Lives Unveiled | Focusing on British and European women, this is an accessible study of lesbian history. Each chapter documents and examines a woman's life and work, or the nature of a particular partnership. Some of the women featured are famous, such as Greta Garbo, Ethel Smyth, Eve Balfour and Queen Anne, while some of the others' lives have not been documented to date. In considering each person or pair the following questions are asked: were the women "infits" or "outfits" in terms of their sexuality?; how were their relationships conducted?; how much did social status/background dictate the extent of their openness or compromise?; what sort of role models where they in their day to other women?; and what legacy did they create, if any, to the status/visibility of the contemporary lesbian?. A wide range of women of different eras, nationalities, ages and social backgrounds are discussed. | ||
| Rose Collis | ||||
| 1994 | ||||
| History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST007 | ||||
 | Gay Men & Women Who Enriched the World | Growing up gay in a straight culture, writes Thomas Cowan, challenges an individual in special ways. The result is that many gay men and lesbians have made unusual contributions to society. In Gay Men and Women Who Enriched the World, Cowan has chosen forty personalities to support his thesis. Their fields have ranged from mathematics and military strategy to art, philosophy, and economics. | ||
| Thomas Cowan | ||||
| 1992 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST008 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 3 / 8 | |||
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 | Their Way: Gay men and women who enriched the world | The contribution which gay men and women have made to every aspect of civilization is not always fully recognized. In Their Way, Cowan helps to illuminate the sunject with 39 short biographies. The reader will encounter historical figures such as Alexander the Great, Plato, Christopher Marlowe, Leonardo da Vinci, Virginia Woolf, Tenessee Williams and Andy Warhol. | ||
| Thomas Cowan | ||||
| 1989 | ||||
| Biography, Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST009 | ||||
 | On Queer Street: A social history of British homosexuality, 1895-1995 | The hidden history of the gay community this century. Long before Oscar Wilde ‘corrupted and debauched the morals’ of his young lovers, homosexual men were finding their own place in society. Later, as homoerotic ‘ladlove’ was celebrated in fiction and poetry by A E Housman, E M Forster and others, gay writers and artists hid their sexuality behind a glittering and thinly veiled social image. Yet the unspoken tolerance of homosexuality that continued and strengthened during the World Wars turned to persecution in post-war Britain, and gay men once again found themselves living with a dangerous secret that would take decades to find acceptance. Hugh David traces the homosexual experience from its struggle with Victorian morality through the decriminalization of homosexual acts in 1967 to the end-of-the-century ravages of HIV and AIDS. Frank and often funny, he weaves accounts from ‘ordinary’ gay men with those of the famously queer to produce a vivid social history of homosexual life. | ||
| Hugh David | ||||
| 1997 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST010 | ||||
 | Johnny Go Home | Where are the children? Over 30,000 children arrive in London each year and end up living and "working" in disgusting conditions, the easy victims of violence, crime and perversion. Deakin, executive producer, and Willis, director of the highly acclaimed Yorkshire Television documentary Johnny Go Home, continue their shattering investigation of runaway children in London. Through detailed case histories of several runaways, through the story of notorious Roger Gleaves, self-styled Bishop in the "Old Catholic Church", and the bizzare and gruesome murder of young Billy "Two-Tone" McPhee, Johnny Go Home unveils THE social scandal of our time. | ||
| Michael Deakin, John Willis | ||||
| 1976 | ||||
| History | ||||
| Book#: HST011 | ||||
 | Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past | A collection of 30 essays which explore homosexuality in various cultures, and different eras, from late imperial China and Renaissance Italy to "Jazz-Age" America and from London to Harlem and Japan. Other chapters look at male prostitutes, cross-dressing and schoolgirl crushes in public schools. | ||
| George Chauncey Jr., Martha Vicinus, Martin Bauml Duberman | ||||
| 1991 | ||||
| Essays, Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST012 | ||||
 | Stonewall | On June 28th, 1969, the Stonewall, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided. But instead of the routine compliance expected by the police, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The five days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. This book tells the story of what happened at Stonewall, recreating those nights in detail through the lives of six people who were drawn into the struggle for gay and lesbian rights. Their stories combine into a portrait of the repression that led up to the riots, which culminates when they triumphantly participate in the first gay rights march of 1970. | ||
| Martin Bauml Duberman | ||||
| 1994 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST013 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 4 / 8 | |||
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 | Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America | Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today's diverse lifestyles. Using journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, news accounts, novels, medical literature, and numerous interviews, she relates an often surprising narrative of lesbian life. | ||
| Lillian Faderman | ||||
| 1992 | ||||
| History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST014 | ||||
 | The History of Sexuality - Volume 1: An Introduction | In this first volume on the History of Sexuality, Foucault offers an exploration of why we feel compelled to analyse and discuss sex, and of the social mechanisms that cause us to direct the question of what we are to what our sexuality is. Foucault begins his history of sexuality by showing how and why certain forms of discourse have taken shape in the West during the last three centuries. In an examination of the Victorian era, he shatters the image of a society that suppressed sexual discussion, revealing in its stead an age during which all social relations were rapidly sexualized. Sex extended into all areas of life, through the endless Victorian studies that still shape our views of women's bodies, children's sexuality, criminals, minority behaviour patterns, family dynamics and the ordering of the school curriculum. This analysis is placed in the context of an increasingly disciplined society, one that was gradually assuming total responsibility for its citizens' lives and welf... | ||
| Michel Foucault | ||||
| 1979 | ||||
| History, Sex, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: HST015 | ||||
 | The History of Sexuality - Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure | This book offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Here Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex as well as on exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women. The book abounds in insights into the differences - and the continuities - between the Ancient, Christian and Modern worlds. But Foucault does far more than merely recreate a vanished era when sex was not a major moral issue (only Plato, like Saint Paul, saw puritanical restraint as the way of wisdom), but makes us rethink all our own assumptions about sex. | ||
| Michel Foucault | ||||
| 1992 | ||||
| History, Sex, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: HST016 | ||||
 | Camping by a Billabong: Gay and Lesbian Stories from Australian History | From the First Fleet to the fabulous fifties, a collection of stories your history teacher didn't tell you. Stories that illustrate important themes in our history; stories of sodomites, homosexuals, lesbians and camp people, from the start of European settlement through to the dawning gay liberation. Drawing from a wide variety of sources Camping by a Billabong brings to life the ancestors of today's gay men and lesbians. | ||
| Robert French | ||||
| 1993 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST017 | ||||
 | Gay Liberation in the Eighties | This book describes both the origins and the forms of society's oppressive reaction; it shows, too, how that oppression is being resisted. Reaction in the communist countires is compared to that in the West. Above all, the authors provide a programme for change which would ensure that gay people and heterosexuals are no longer separate and opposed groups. Gay Liberation in the Eighties is at once a guide to radical politics and a manifesto. | ||
| Mike Macnair, Jamie Gough | ||||
| 1985 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: HST018 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 5 / 8 | |||
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 | Hidden Holocaust?: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45 | The persecution of lesbians and gay men by the Nazis is a subject that has been constantly debated during the last decade, providing a theme for books, articles, and plays. Until recently the discussion has remained speculative: most of the relevant documents were stored in closed East German archives, and access was denied to scholars and researchers. As a result of the unification of East and West Germany, these archives are now open. Hidden Holocaust, by the German scholars Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann of Humboldt Uinversity, Berlin, demonstrates that the eradication of homosexuals was a declared gol of the Nazis even before they took power in 1933, and provide proof of the systematic anti-gay campaigns, the methods used to justify discrimination, and the incarceration mutilation and murder of gay men and women in Nazi concentration camps. A chilling but groud-breaking work in gay and lesbian studies. | ||
| Gunter Grau | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST019 | ||||
 | It: Sex Since the Sixties | Taking the Sixties as his starting point, the author traces the changing world of modern sexuality in a series of frank interviews with people of various ages and every possible inclination. Some are sex professionals but most are ordinary people who talk freely about their own sexual experience. | ||
| Jonathon Green | ||||
| 1993 | ||||
| History, Sex, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: HST020 | ||||
 | The Men with The Pink Triangle | The first, and still the best known, testimony by a gay survivor of the Nazi concentration camps translated into English, this harrowing autobiography opened new doors onto the understanding of homosexuality and the Holocaust when it was first published in 1980 by Gay Men's Press. The Men with The Pink Triangle has been translated into several languages. | ||
| Heinz Heger | ||||
| 1980 | ||||
| Biography, Gay, History | ||||
| Book#: HST021 | ||||
 | A Queer Reader | The first anthology of its kind, this is a witty, candid and wide-ranging collection of writings about homosexuality - ranging from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. A collection of writings about male homosexuality: a celebration of the diversity of homosexual experience. Patrick Higgins has compiled an anthology which illustrates the changing and the unchanging aspects of homosexuality. He draws on a huge range of sources: from Plato's Symposium to Gay News from Michelangelo's Sonnets to a speech in the House of Lords, from graphic graffiti found in Pompeii to a poem by W. H. Auden. Higgins uses novels, biographies, autobiographies, histories and ephemera to trace the real history of the homosexual sensibility. | ||
| Patrick Higgins | ||||
| 1994 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian, Queer | ||||
| Book#: HST022 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 6 / 8 | |||
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 | The Golden Age of Erotica | Painstakingly culled from yellowed manuscripts and the vaults of collectors, the erotic excerpts presented in this unique volume reveal a ribald, bawdy and lusty era that connoisseurs of more up-to-date erotic literature will relish. The Golden Age of Erotica so vividly brought to light by this book includes the 17th and 18th centuries - the age of Fanny Hill, Tom Jones, rakish monks and dissolute royalty. In England, France and the new world of America, sin, corruption and immorality ran ramoant, making this period one of the most delightfully garish, joyously gaudy and outrageously sexual epochs in history. | ||
| Bernhardt J Hurwood | ||||
| 1968 | ||||
| Erotica, History | ||||
| Book#: HST023 | ||||
 | It's Not Unusual: History of Lesbian and Gay Britain in the 20th Century | At the beginning of the century the word "homosexuality" was rarely used and yet, as the century draws to a close, it is part of our everday vocabulary. The progress of the word form obscurity to common usage parallels the progress gay men and lesbians have made. The book charts that advance from a time when homosexuality was an unspeakable sin to a point where it is just another form of sexual expression. The story is told through the testimony of those who were there. The men and women who lived through it talk about what it was like to go to West End premieres in the Twenties with a monocled, cross-dressed Radclyffe Hall. What signs and signals lesbians and gay men used to recognize each other in the Thirties. How London became a "vast double bed" during the blackout. How gay men and lesbians came back from the war to fear and repression as the Fifties took hold. How lesbians and gay men partied through the Seventies and rallied together in the Eighties against the advent of AIDS, a... | ||
| Alkarim Jivani | ||||
| 1997 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST024 | ||||
 | Outing: Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence | Here is the most complete book on outing - the exposure of closet homosexual cases in high places. Outing: Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence is the first historicist treatment of the intolerance of homosexuality in any language. Authors Johansson and Percy analyze the subject from the perspective of the shifting religious attitudes toward homosexual expression. They do not blithely parrot the “right to privacy,” but examine the dialectical meaning of privacy. This provocative book focuses on the irreconcilable opposition between the belief in privacy and the assumption of Christian theology that all homosexual activity is visible to the God whose wrath it provokes. The authors hold that outing is a legitimate tactic for reinforcing the identity and solidarity of the Queer Nation in its struggle for vindication and survival in the age of AIDS. And this book provides readers with a host of issues and definitions and stimulates ideas on outing: political and ethical issues media treatm... | ||
| William A. Percy, Warren Johansson | ||||
| 1994 | ||||
| Bisexual, Coming Out, Gay, History, Lesbian, Religion, Self-help | ||||
| Book#: HST025 | ||||
 | Gay American History | This unique and pioneering work is a comprehensive collection of documents on American gay life from the early days of European settlement to the emergence of modern American gay culture. Hailed by reviewers, it offers a new historical perspective on this once invisible minority and its 400-year battle. | ||
| Jonathan Ned Katz | ||||
| 1978 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST026 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 7 / 8 | |||
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 | Playland: A Story of Boy Prostitution | Boy prostitution is a taboo subject. Only occasionally does a major scandal or a television documentary like Johnny Go Home uneasily stir the public conscience. Yet, as Lloyd reveals, both here and in the United States, boy whores present a major social problem. Lloyd has pursued his invesitgations in London, Bradford, Manchester, Leicester and Brighton, and has received help and advice from probation officers, court officials, solicitors and police officers. He explains how boys come into prostitution and how they operate, looking for money and for affection. His investigation discusses the background forces - parents, school, environment - which drive the boys on to the steets and he shows that they have become a deeply disturbing factor of metropolitan life. This book may offend - there is sex and perversion, people who don't give a damn and who are out to make a fast buck. But there are others who DO care, who want to resolve the problem of boy prostitution - including the autho... | ||
| Robin Lloyd | ||||
| 1976 | ||||
| History, Sex | ||||
| Book#: HST027 | ||||
 | The Homosexual Revolution | In this uncensored, unexpurgated, amazingly honest book, the author takes you deep into the homosexual world, reveals the homosexual mind, and withholds nothing! You may be astonished, excited, or horribly fascinated; but you will never forget what you read in this book on the "new" society. | ||
| R. E. L. Masters | ||||
| 1964 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST028 | ||||
 | Born to be Gay: A History of Homosexuality | There has long been an assumption in the West that views on sex and sexuality are basically similar worldwide. This has never been the case. Many ancient cultures actively promoted same-sex relationships as an integral part of adolescence or even worship. The rise of Judeo-Christian views forced homosexuality “underground,” leading to Henry VIII’s 1533 ban on homosexuals and Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment for sodomy. Born to be Gay takes a radical look at the history of homosexuality, from Bacchanalian orgies to Gay Pride. | ||
| William Naphy | ||||
| 2006 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian, Sex, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: HST029 | ||||
 | Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present | A unique and hugely absorbing narrative history of gay life-from Oscar Wilde to the first gay marriage performed in San Francisco in 2004 - by the award-winning journalist and distinguished author of Out in the World and Sex- Crime Panic. Miller accompanies his narrative with essays and excerpts from contemporary and historical writings, and the text is illustrated with photos and line drawings. | ||
| Neil Miller | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST030 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 8 / 8 | |||
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 | Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century | Award-winning author Graham Robb explores the story - and history - of male and female homosexuality in the UK and US, uncovering elements from legislature, literature, medicine and day-to-day life that point to a particularly self-aware and sophisticated culture of Victorian homosexuality. Drawing on famous cases such as the Wilde trials, as well as a wide variety of previously neglected sources, Robb recreates this era with great insight, humour and aplomb, exploding modern myths and restoring the real and vibrant truth of homosexual love to today's readers: Strangers tells a tale that is in part familiar, and in part extremely surprising - a story of oppression and secrecy, but also of unexpected tolerance and familiarity. | ||
| Graham Robb | ||||
| 2004 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian | ||||
| Book#: HST031 | ||||
 | Homosexuality: A History | "Homosexuality: A History is a brilliant, panoramic history of the widely differing attitudes towards homosexuality throughout the ages, from the veneration of same-sex relations in many ancient civilisations to the witchhunts in Britain and the United States during the fifites." - Peter Tatchell | ||
| Colin Spencer | ||||
| 1996 | ||||
| Book#: HST032 | ||||
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