Gay Studies

Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex." New York: Routledge, 1993.

Crompton, Louis. Homosexuality and Civilization. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon, 1978.

Hirschfeld, Magnus. The Homosexuality of Men and Women. Translated by Michael A. Lombardi-Nash. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000.

Murphy, John. Homosexual Liberation: A Personal View. New York: Praeger, 1971.

Rich, Adrienne. "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5, no. 4 (1980): 631–660. Reprint, in her Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979–1985, 23–75. New York: Norton, 1986.

Saikaku, Ihara. The Great Mirror of Male Love. Translated by Paul Gordon Schalow. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990.

Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich. The Riddle of "Man-Manly" Love: The Pioneering Work on Homosexuality. 2 vols. Translated by Michael A. Lombardi-Nash. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1994. Collected works of Ulrichs.

Warner, Michael, ed. Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Weinberg, George. Society and the Healthy Homosexual. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972.