LGBTQ History
1. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings 2. 
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
by:
Heinz Heger
4.35 avg rating — 3,405 ratings 3. 
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
by:
George Chauncey
4.27 avg rating — 3,391 ratings 
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.02 avg rating — 4,058 ratings 
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
by:
Randy Shilts
4.14 avg rating — 4,470 ratings 8. 
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Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two
by:
Allan Bérubé
4.27 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 11. 
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
by:
David Carter
4.08 avg rating — 1,295 ratings 12. 
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community 4.19 avg rating — 793 ratings
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Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
by:
Eric Marcus
4.27 avg rating — 492 ratings 17. 
Queer There and Everywhere: 22 People Who Changed the World
by:
Sarah Prager
4.13 avg rating — 3,204 ratings 18. 
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
by:
Martin Duberman
4.02 avg rating — 487 ratings 19. 
Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples 3.67 avg rating — 763 ratings
20. 
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture
by:
Bonnie J. Morris
3.96 avg rating — 137 ratings 21. 
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.02 avg rating — 844 ratings 22. 
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.23 avg rating — 293 ratings 23. 
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
by:
David France
4.44 avg rating — 4,225 ratings 
25. 
A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Around the World
by:
R.B. Parkinson
3.84 avg rating — 646 ratings 
27. 
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
by:
Julia Serano
4.27 avg rating — 8,774 ratings 
29. 
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
by:
Emma Donoghue
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 400 ratings 
31. 
Straightforward: The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The Hobbit
by:
Marcus Attwater
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 32. 
The Greeks & Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
by:
James Davidson
3.81 avg rating — 140 ratings 
34. 
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military
by:
Randy Shilts
4.29 avg rating — 586 ratings 
36. 
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
by:
John D'Emilio
4.06 avg rating — 1,025 ratings 
38. 
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970
by:
John D'Emilio
4.01 avg rating — 267 ratings 39. 
A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500
by:
Rebecca Jennings
3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings 
41. 
Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement
by:
Marcia M. Gallo
3.92 avg rating — 143 ratings 42. 
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
by:
Judith C. Brown
3.68 avg rating — 911 ratings 43. 
The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
by:
Richard Plant
4.12 avg rating — 1,180 ratings 44. 
Wolf Girls at Vassar: Lesbian & Gay Experiences 1930-1990
by:
Anne MacKay
3.94 avg rating — 68 ratings 45. 
Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context
by:
Vern L. Bullough
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings 
50. 
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
by:
Eric Cervini
4.31 avg rating — 3,376 ratings 
52. 
Wearing History: T-shirts from the Gay Rights Movement
by:
Steve Gdula
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 
55. 
Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997
by:
Alvin Orloff
4.34 avg rating — 175 ratings 56. 
57. 
Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
by:
Leslie Feinberg
4.14 avg rating — 2,322 ratings 58. 
59. 
Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present
by:
Neil Miller
4.01 avg rating — 365 ratings 
60. 
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
by:
James Kirchick
4.16 avg rating — 1,467 ratings 62. 
Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
by:
Hanne Blank
3.78 avg rating — 1,118 ratings 
63. 
Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
by:
Laura Horak
3.92 avg rating — 60 ratings 65. 
RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture: The Boundaries of Reality TV
by:
Niall Brennan
3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings 65. 
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
by:
Peter Ackroyd
3.35 avg rating — 1,781 ratings 
68. 
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.05 avg rating — 371 ratings 
71. 
Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)
by:
Matt Houlbrook
4.10 avg rating — 190 ratings 72. 
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
by:
Neil McKenna
3.71 avg rating — 747 ratings 72. 
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders
by:
Joy Ladin
3.80 avg rating — 324 ratings 
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The Fire in Moonlight Stories from the Radical Faeries 1975-2010
by:
Mark Thompson
3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings 
80. 
Rediscovering Gay History: Archetypes of Gay Love in Christian History
by:
John Boswell
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 
82. 
Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps
by:
Michael Bronski
3.84 avg rating — 168 ratings 82. 
Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left
by:
Emily K. Hobson
4.23 avg rating — 114 ratings 84. 
Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801
by:
Emma Donoghue
3.69 avg rating — 180 ratings 84. 
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Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star
by:
William J. Mann
4.22 avg rating — 343 ratings 
90. 
Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights, with 21 Activities
by:
Jerome Pohlen
4.01 avg rating — 153 ratings 
93. 
Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland
by:
History Project
3.93 avg rating — 58 ratings 93. 
Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
by:
Lois W. Banner
3.58 avg rating — 72 ratings 95. 
Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography
by:
John Ibson
4.38 avg rating — 40 ratings 97. 
Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars
by:
Stephen Bourne
3.84 avg rating — 237 ratings 99. 
Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
by:
Gregory Woods
3.66 avg rating — 131 ratings 100. 
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914
by:
Mark Mitchell
3.88 avg rating — 48 ratings