Chapter 13 — Further Reading

Further Reading

This guide consolidates core scholarly reading for the TV series. Use the bibliography for full Chicago-style citations and archival/institutional sources. Several biographies, memoirs, and popular histories are valuable entry points but should be corroborated for specific claims about private relationships, legal history, and contested events.

General, legal, and urban history

• Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940.
• Cocks, H. G. Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the Nineteenth Century.
• Cook, Matt. London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914.
• D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970.
• Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America.
• Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800.

Germany, Weimar, and persecution

• Beachy, Robert. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity.
• Bauer, Heike. The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture.
• Marhoefer, Laurie. Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis.
• Plant, Richard. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War against Homosexuals.
• Schoppmann, Claudia. National Socialist Persecution of Lesbian Women.
• Tamagne, Florence. A History of Homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919–1939.
• Tobin, Robert Deam. Peripheral Desires: The German Discovery of Sex.
• Wolff, Charlotte. Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait of a Pioneer in Sexology.

Britain, France, and modernism

• Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900–1940.
• Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde.
• Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller.
• Glendinning, Victoria. Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West.
• Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes.
• Jay, Karla. The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien.
• Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf.
• Souhami, Diana. The Trials of Radclyffe Hall.
• Thurman, Judith. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette.

Literary and screen figures

• Dearborn, Mary V. Carson McCullers: A Life.
• Homestead, Melissa J. The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis.
• Leeming, David. James Baldwin: A Biography.
• Mann, William J. Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood’s First Openly Gay Star.
• Riva, Maria. Marlene Dietrich.
• Schanke, Robert A. That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta.
• Schwarzenbach, Alexis. Annemarie Schwarzenbach: A Biography.
• Weiss, Andrea. Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film.

Black queer history and performance

• Brooks, Daphne A. Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910.
• Chauncey, George. Gay New York.
• Davis, Angela Y. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday.
• Garber, Eric. “A Spectacle in Color: The Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age Harlem.”
• Johnson, E. Patrick, ed. No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies.
• Vogel, Shane. The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance.

North America after 1945

• Bérubé, Allan. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two.
• Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution.
• D’Emilio, John. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.
• Faderman, Lillian, and Stuart Timmons. Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians.
• Gallo, Marcia. Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement.
• Johnson, David K. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government.
• Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky, and Madeline D. Davis. Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community.
• Stryker, Susan. Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution.
• Stryker, Susan, and Victor Silverman, dirs. Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria.
• Timmons, Stuart. The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement.

Global and comparative approaches

• Aldrich, Robert, ed. Gay Life and Culture: A World History.
• Chiang, Howard, et al., eds. Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History.
• El-Rouayheb, Khaled. Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500–1800.
• Epprecht, Marc. Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa.
• Habib, Samar, ed. Islam and Homosexuality.
• Matebeni, Zethu, ed. Reclaiming Afrikan: Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Identities.
• McLelland, Mark, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker, eds. Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age.
• Pflugfelder, Gregory M. Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950.
• Robertson, Jennifer. Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan.

Archives and methods

• Arolsen Archives. “Paragraph 175: The Long Road to Legal Reform.”
• GALA Queer Archive. The Kewpie Collection.
• Rosenbach Museum and Library. The Mercedes de Acosta Papers. Finding aid.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Paragraph 175 and the Nazi Campaign against Homosexuality.”
• District Six Museum. Kewpie: Daughter of District Six.
• Library of Congress. Chronicling America and LGBTQIA+ primary-source guides.