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15 Titles to Read for LGBTQ+ History Month
Posted on October 28, 2025 in DEIA Resource Lists
In honor of October being LGBTQ History Month, the TIE team has compiled a list of titles featuring different aspects of queer and trans history. Each book on this list has been reviewed in Choice Reviews, so if you’d like to read the reviews, be sure to subscribe!
- Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure (2012) by Sara Warner
- Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement (2019) by David K. Johnson
- The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture (2016) by Bonnie J. Morris
- Familiar Perversions: The Racial, Sexual, and Economic Politics of LGBT Families (2018) by Liz Montegary
- The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (2015) by Lillian Faderman
- Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements (2013) by JoAnne Myers
- The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilation or Liberation? (2008) by Craig A. Rimmerman (2nd ed., 2015)
- New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut (2013) by Rich B. Ruby
- Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America (2014) by Miriam Frank
- Pride Parades: How a Parade Changed the World (2016) by Katherine McFarland Bruce
- Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe since 1945 (2014) ed. by Matt Cook and Jennifer V. Evans
- Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (2013) by Christina B. Hanhardt
- True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (2017) by Emily Skidmore
- The Two Revolutions: A History of Transgender Networking Online (2023) by Avery Dame-Griff
- Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (2014) ed. by Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman
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