Queer, radical and progressive books set and/or written in the 40s, 50s and 60s.
created by belvis
last updated October, 2026
Rainbow Milk
Paul Mendez
The Gilda Stories
Jewelle Gomez
Romance in Marseille
Claude McKay
The Ways of White Folks
Langston Hughes
They Come in All Colors
Malcolm Hansen
Meet Me in the Garden
Nina LaCour
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Southland
Nina Revoyr
There's Only One Sin in Hollywood
Rasheed Newson
Under the Udala Trees
Chinelo Okparanta
After Hours at Dooryard Books
Cat Sebastian
City of Night
John Rechy
The Charioteer
Mary Renault
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
David K. Johnson
Hall of Mirrors
John Copenhaver
Coffee Will Make You Black
April Sinclair
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde
Another Country
James Baldwin
A Single Man
Christopher Isherwood
The Friendly Young Ladies
Queer
William S. Burroughs
The Night Watch
Sarah Waters
Quatrefoil
James Barr
Fellow Travelers
Thomas Mallon
Odd Girl Out
Ann Bannon
Carol
Patricia Highsmith
Lavender House
Lev A.C. Rosen
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