Gender & Sexual Diversity

Articles

• Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. “‘The Strangest Freaks of Despotism’: Queer Sexuality in Antebellum African American Slave Narratives.” African American Review 40, no. 2 (2006): 223–37.
• Comment, Kristin M. “Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘Ormond’ and Lesbian Possibility in the Early Republic.” Early American Literature 40, no. 1 (2005): 57–78.
• D’Emilio, John. “Not a Simple Matter: Gay History and Gay Historians.” The Journal of American History 76, no. 2 (1989): 435–42.
• Duberman, Martin Bauml. “Reclaiming the Gay Past.” Reviews in American History 16, no. 4 (1988): 515–25.
• Lussana, Sergio. “‘No Band of Brothers Could Be More Loving’: Enslaved Male Homosociality, Friendship, and Resistance in the Antebellum American South.” Journal of Social History 46, no. 4 (2013): 872–95.
• Lyons, Clare A. “Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.” The William and Mary Quarterly 60, no. 1 (2003): 119–54.

Books

• Aldrich, Robert. Colonialism and homosexuality. New York: Routledge, 2003.
• Barker-Benfield, G. J. The culture of sensibility: sex and society in eighteenth-century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
• Benemann, William. Male-male intimacy in early America: beyond romantic friendships. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2006.
• Benemann, William. Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and same-sex desire in the Rocky Mountain fur trade. Lincoln, NA: University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
• Berry, Daina Ramey, and Leslie M. Harris. Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2018.
• Cleves, Rachel Hope. Charity and Sylvia: a same-sex marriage in early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Constantine-Simms, Delroy. The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities. Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2001.
• D’Emilio, John., and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: a History of Sexuality in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
• Donoghue, Emma. Passions between women: British lesbian culture 1668-1801. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
• Duberman, Martin B., Martha. Vicinus, and George. Chauncey. Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. New York, N.Y: Penguin Group, 1990.
• Faderman, Lillian. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Morrow, 1981.
• Fischer, Kirsten. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
• Foster, Thomas A. Long before Stonewall: histories of same-sex sexuality in early America. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
• Foster, Thomas A. New Men: Manliness in Early America. New York: New York University Press, 2011.
• Foster, Thomas A. Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2019.
• Foster, Thomas A. Sex and the eighteenth-century man: Massachusetts and the history of sexuality in America. Boston : Beacon Press, 2006.
• Godbeer, Richard. The Overflowing of Friendship: Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
• Godbeer, Richard. Sexual Revolution in Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
• Halberstam, Judith. Female masculinity. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998.
• Kann, Mark E. Taming Passion for the Public Good: Policing Sex in the Early Republic. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
• Katz, Jonathan. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.: a Documentary History. Rev. ed. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Meridian, 1992.
• Katz, Jonathan. Love stories: sex between men before homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2001.
• Laqueur, Thomas Walter. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1990.
• Lister, Anne and Helena Whitbread. I Know My Own Heart: the Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840. New York: New York University Press, 1992.
• Lussana, Sergio. My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
• Lyons, Clare A. Sex Among the Rabble : an Intimate History of Gender & Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
• Nardi, Peter M. Men’s Friendships. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1992.
• Romesburg, Don. The Routledge History of Queer America. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.
• Rupp, Leila J. Sapphistries : a Global History of Love Between Women. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
• Van Duyvenbode, R. The Delectable Negro: human consumption and homoeroticism within US slave culture. UK: Taylor and Francis, 2015.
• Vicinus, Martha. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
• Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. Invisible relations: representations of female intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press 1999.

Other Sources

• CNN, “LGBTQ Rights Milestones Fast Facts.” A timeline of important dates in LGBTQIA+ history.
• GLBT Historical Society, Online exhibitions and historical resources.
• Outhistory, Resources and articles about LGBTQIA+ history.
• Library of Congress. “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month,” Historical and modern examinations of Pride.
• Library of Congress. “LGBTQIA+ Studies: A Resource Guide.” This is the landing page for the Library of Congress’s sources and research guides.