I love learning more about gender and sexuality and didn’t see any other lists collecting nonfiction about them. (I couldn’t find the trans flag emoji)
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last updated December, 2025
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
Susan Stryker
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
Michael Waters
Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern
Greta LaFleur
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
Eric Cervini
Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950
Eli Erlick
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Eric A. Stanley
Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line
Elizabeth Lovatt
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
Daniel Brook
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany (Monographs in German History, 32)
Katie Sutton
Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
Marlon M. Bailey
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
Susan Quinn
Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
Alexis Coe
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
Dennis Baron
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
Julia Shaw
Gender Euphoria
Laura Kate Dale
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
Joan Roughgarden
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
Eliot Schrefer
American Poly: A History
Christopher M. Gleason
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities
Laura Erickson-Schroth
Gender Queer
Maia Kobabe
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
Sherronda J. Brown
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Rachel Hope Cleves
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Julia Serano
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
Krista Burton
Lesbian Love Story
Amelia Possanza
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Lillian Faderman
They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary & Genderqueer Identities
Eris Young
Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink
Tina Horn
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
Gregory D. Smithers
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