Recs if you like Mademoiselle de Maupin...

A selection of books by queer authors and/or containing queer themes not originally written in English but since translated. Suggestions very welcome!

Transgressive, perverted, depraved, debased writings from before the Information Age ~1967.

At times disgusting, ecstatic, abhorrent, funny, erotic, evil. Occasionally, actually way less shocking than the reaction from the time of their initial publication suggested.

Seek content warnings. I haven’t read them all and many I regret having in my brain. But I think they’re all intriguing, maybe not all important but they offer us a different view of the past.

Suggestions welcome!

books mentioned or referenced by Lou Sullivan in ‘We Both Laughed in Pleasure’

(I added ‘we both laughed in pleasure’ so it would show up on it’s page)

If I missed anything, let me know :)