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Related category: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexuality & Transgender

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek
    Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary - by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek

    £9.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781839763342 | ISBN 10: 1839763345

    A legendary transgender elder and activist reflects on a lifetime of struggle and the future of black, queer, and trans liberation.   Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson
    The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government - by David K. Johnson

    £22.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780226825724 | ISBN 10: 0226825728

    A new edition of a classic work of history, revealing the anti-homosexual purges of midcentury Washington.  In The Lavender Scare, David K. Johnson tells the frightening story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as danger ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pretended: Schools and Section 28: Historical, Cultural and Personal Perspectives by Catherine Lee
    Pretended: Schools and Section 28: Historical, Cultural and Personal Perspectives - by Catherine Lee

    £16.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781915261694 | ISBN 10: 1915261694

    Pretended is a vivid historical, political and cultural account of schools and teaching under Section 28, a law that banned schools in the UK from promoting homosexuality as a 'pretended family relationship'.   Catherine Lee was a teacher in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander
    Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR - by Rustam Alexander

    £17.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526167453 | ISBN 10: 152616745x

    In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a naï ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London
    Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History - by Dan Glass, illustrated by Mark Glasgow

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780745346212 | ISBN 10: 0745346219

    This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London's queerstory. Follow in the footprints of veteran activists, such as those who marched in London's first Pride parad ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love
    Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriages in Modern India - by Ruth Vanita

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780144000593 | ISBN 10: 0144000598

    A CHRONICLE OF LOVE’S TRIUMPH OVER ALL OBSTACLES   Long before the debate on marriage equality began, young, non-English speaking, low-income female couples all over India got married by religious rites or committed joint suicide, which they ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pride: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement by Matthew Todd
    Pride: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement - by Matthew Todd

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787396869 | ISBN 10: 178739686x

    In June 1969, police raided New York gay bar the Stonewall Inn. Pride charts the events of that night, the days and nights of rioting that followed, the ensuing organization of local members of the community - and the 50 years since in which activist ... more

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  • Cover image of book When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
    When We Rise: My Life in the Movement - by Cleve Jones

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472126658 | ISBN 10: 1472126653

    A personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, and partial inspiration for the acclaimed mini-series When We Rise from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Over the Rainbow: Money, Class and Homophobia by Nicola Field
    Over the Rainbow: Money, Class and Homophobia - by Nicola Field

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781907133947 | ISBN 10: 1907133941

    First published in 1995, Nicola Field’s Over the Rainbow confronts the political contradictions in the LGBT+ movement and contains one of the earliest first-hand accounts from the frontlines of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, featured in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o Lgbt Activism by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (Editors)
    Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o Lgbt Activism - by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (Editors)

    £17.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781477307304 | ISBN 10: 1477307303

    In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not often accept sexual minorities, and the mainstream LGBT movement expected everyone, regardless of their et ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQI Activism by Adrian Brooks
    The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQI Activism - by Adrian Brooks

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781627781237 | ISBN 10: 1627781234

    The Right Side of History tells the hundred-year history of queer activism in a series of revealing close-ups, first person accounts, and intimate snap-shots of some of LGBT pioneers and radicals, both the known and many heretofore unknown. Adrian Br ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red in the Rainbow: Sexuality, Socialism & LGBT Liberation by Hannah Dee
    The Red in the Rainbow: Sexuality, Socialism & LGBT Liberation - by Hannah Dee

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781905192700 | ISBN 10: 1905192703

    The Red in the Rainbow is no normal addition to an LGBT activist's bookshelf. It is a must-read for the whole movement. This is a critical weapon for LGBT activists, providing the perspective needed in an emerging movement. But it also relates this s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay and Lesbian Experience by Edited by Louis-Georges Tin
    The Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay and Lesbian Experience - by Edited by Louis-Georges Tin

    £38.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781551522296 | ISBN 10: 1551522292

    Based on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobia is a mammoth, encyclopedic book that documents the history of homosexuality, and various cultural responses to it, in all regions of the world: a masterful, e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994 by Elizabeth A. Armstrong
    Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994 - by Elizabeth A. Armstrong

    £25.50   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780226026947 | ISBN 10: 0226026949

    Unlike many social movements, the gay and lesbian struggle for visibility and rights has succeeded in combining a unified group identity with the celebration of individual differences.   In Forging Gay Identities, Elizabeth Armstrong explores ... more

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