Further Reading
LGBTQ+ history is a dynamic field that seeks to critically engage with queer lives of the past. We compiled a bibliography of academic material that influenced our project. These topics range from Virginia’s queer history, queer Southern history, DC queer history, histories of cruising, histories of queer representation in media, and more. We hope this list serves as a gateway to other queer histories.
Beemyn, Genny. “The Geography of Same-Sex Desire: Cruising Men in Washington, DC in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Left History 9, no. 2 (2004): 141.
Beemyn, Genny. A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington D.C. Taylor and Francis Group, 2014.
Bezemes, John. “Cruising Place: The Placemaking Practices of Men who Have Sex with Men.” Journal of Public Space 4, no. 4 (2019): 179-186.
Brown, Kathleen. ““Changed… into the Fashion of Man”: The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 6, no. 2 (1995): 171-193.
Canaday, Margo. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America. Princeton University Press, 2009.
Capsuto, Steven. Alternate Channels: The Uncensored Story of Gay and Lesbian Images on Radio and Television. Ballantine Books, 2000.
Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. Basic Books, 1994.
Chiang, Howard, Anjali Aronekar. Global encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019.
Couture, Joseph. Peek: Inside the Private World of Public Sex. Haworth Press, 2008.
Doyle, Vincent. Making Out in the Mainstream: GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.
Faderman, Lillian. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle. Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. Columbia University Press, 1991.
Ford, Charles H. and Littlejohn, Jeffery, eds. Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion. University of Virginia Press, 2025.
Harker, Jaime. The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon. University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Herold, Lauren. “Cable Comes Out: LGBTQ Community Television on New York Public Access Stations.” PhD diss. Northwestern University, 2021.
Howard, John. Men Like That: A Southern Queer History. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Johnson, David K. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Lvovsky, Anna. Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall. University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Olinger, John Peter. “On Screen: Creating Gay Fairfax and TV for the Gay Community.” Paper presented at DC History Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2006.
Rosenthal, G. Samantha. Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City. University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Ryan, Hugh. When Brooklyn Was Queer. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2019.
Stein, Marc. Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism. University of California Press, 2022.