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Queer History

A collection of books to learn more about queer people and their history

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

The Lilac People

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Art is Political!

by violet.booklover

Creative expression x political themes

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art

The Story of Art Without Men

Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly

Stitching the Intifada: Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art

The Story of Art Without Men

Lesbian Herstory

Make your way through the lesbian herstorical canon.

This list features standalone non-fiction texts only.

Please request these books at your local library.

Most out-of-print texts can be requested through your library's ILL system or read on archive.org. 💝

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community

The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion

lesbian/sapphic history 💜💗🤍🧡

by lesbianmenace

from photographs, essays, poems and more: these reads offer the living experiences of lesbians/sapphics of different backgrounds ♡

all lesbians/sapphics are welcome! anything sapphic-centered i find will be added on here! hope you enjoy!

Stone Butch Blues

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community

Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians

Lesbian/ Woman

Stone Butch Blues

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community

lgbtq history / theory

by librarygirlfriend

history / theory books i have on my tbr!!

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

The Laramie Project

Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

on queer history

Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language

Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education

Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World

Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language

Lesbian History

by rage_of_aquarius

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Female Husbands: A Trans History

Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion

Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Female Husbands: A Trans History

Reading Specifically, and Deeply

Niche non-fiction to open your mind to a world in specifics

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans

Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

Books to learn your queer history

We've always been here and we will always be here

🏳️‍⚧️

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

A Short History of Queer Women

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

Fashion in history

Books about fashion in history for adults and children - compiling this list because I saw many intriguing books about fashion recently at the library :)

Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History

Troublemakers in Trousers: Women and What They Wore to Get Things Done

History Is Worn: A Story of Fashion (Honest History)

Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe

Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History

Troublemakers in Trousers: Women and What They Wore to Get Things Done

let’s go lesbians!!

by stateofalicegrace

my personalised sapphic master list!!

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Fingersmith

The Safekeep

Sunburn

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Fingersmith

lesbian/sapphic history

by stateofalicegrace

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Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a Group of Women Set Out to Change the World

No Modernism Without Lesbians

Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion

Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a Group of Women Set Out to Change the World

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