Books about queer history (nonfiction)

1.
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
2.
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement 4.35 avg rating — 2,845 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk 4.14 avg rating — 4,470 ratings
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community 4.19 avg rating — 793 ratings
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America 4.02 avg rating — 4,058 ratings
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Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military 4.29 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left
Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left 4.23 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals 4.12 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
7.
The Sappho Companion
The Sappho Companion really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 55 ratings
11.
Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi
Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America 3.98 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power
Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power 3.91 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
by: Karla Jay
3.94 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections, 15)
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections, 15) 3.65 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present 4.02 avg rating — 844 ratings
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The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco 4.30 avg rating — 307 ratings
18.
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle 4.34 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco 4.35 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (Chicago History of American Civilization
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (Chicago History of American Civilization 4.05 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Viral: The Fight Against AIDS in America
Viral: The Fight Against AIDS in America 4.14 avg rating — 273 ratings
20.
El Diablo es una mujer
El Diablo es una mujer 3.72 avg rating — 79 ratings
20.
Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History
Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History 4.53 avg rating — 970 ratings
20.
Gay a Day
Gay a Day it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution
Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution 3.83 avg rating — 356 ratings
25.
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity 3.61 avg rating — 85 ratings
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She and Her Pretty Friend: The Hidden History of Australian Women Who Love Women
She and Her Pretty Friend: The Hidden History of Australian Women Who Love Women 4.15 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain
Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain 4.43 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians
Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians 4.02 avg rating — 256 ratings
29.
The Secret Public: A Queer History of Pop
The Secret Public: A Queer History of Pop 3.87 avg rating — 111 ratings
29.
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer
by: Ian Wade
3.87 avg rating — 67 ratings
32.
Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1945–1959
Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1945–1959 4.31 avg rating — 95 ratings
33.
Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture 4.08 avg rating — 252 ratings
33.
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
by: Gad Beck
3.94 avg rating — 448 ratings
33.
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters 4.06 avg rating — 735 ratings
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Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned 4.06 avg rating — 2,807 ratings
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Stonewall
Stonewall 3.92 avg rating — 2,073 ratings
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Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial
Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Naked Civil Servant
The Naked Civil Servant 4.03 avg rating — 2,696 ratings
40.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,784 ratings
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The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night
The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night 3.62 avg rating — 424 ratings
41.
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 4.27 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
43.
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History 4.23 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement 3.82 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage
Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage 4.24 avg rating — 54 ratings
46.
Female Husbands: A Trans History
Female Husbands: A Trans History 4.02 avg rating — 766 ratings
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A Queer History of the United States for Young People
A Queer History of the United States for Young People 3.77 avg rating — 651 ratings
48.
A Queer History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States 3.90 avg rating — 3,316 ratings
49.
When Brooklyn Was Queer
When Brooklyn Was Queer
by: Hugh Ryan
4.31 avg rating — 1,863 ratings
50.
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution 4.22 avg rating — 5,495 ratings
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True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 4.09 avg rating — 159 ratings