My third instalment of queer classics - this time historical events that had gay written all over it!
created by thissillygirlthought
last updated June, 2026
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler
Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise
Jack Parlett
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)
David Leavitt
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Kit Heyam
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
Robert Beachy
Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures
Adam Zmith
Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India
Madhavi Menon
Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas: Remembering Xicana Indigena Ancestries (Transformations: Womanist studies)
Susy J. Zepeda
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
Michael Waters
It Used to be Witches: Under the Spell of Queer Cinema
Ryan Gilbey
Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor
Emma Warren
Queering the Gothic
Andrew Smith
Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire
Anastasiia Fedorova
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Saidiya Hartman
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
Sacha Coward
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections, 15)
Leila J. Rupp
Sex and Punishment
Eric Berkowitz
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
Paul Baker
A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a Group of Women Set Out to Change the World
Jane Cholmeley
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music
Darryl W. Bullock
A Little Gay History of Wales
Daryl Leeworthy
Closet Queens
Michael Bloch
Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain
Rebecca Jane Morgan
The End of Innocence
Simon Garfield
Pretended: Schools and Section 28: Historical, Cultural and Personal Perspectives
Catherine Lee
Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars
Stephen Bourne
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
Peter Ackroyd
British queer history: New approaches and perspectives
Brian Lewis
A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National Trust
Michael Hall
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