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LGBTQIA+ Archives at Elon and Beyond

This provides some useful resources for conducting primary source research using Elon's institutional archives, as well as online resources including Elon's database subscriptions and materials freely available online.

Published Materials Available at Belk Library

Adams, Tony E. Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same-Sex Attraction. Writing Lives : Ethnographic Narratives. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2011.

After Stonewall: From the Riots to the Millennium. Educational/non-Theatrical version. New York, NY: First Run Features, 2005. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244955/.

Allen, Samantha (Journalist). Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States. First edition. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

Ball, Carlos A. After Marriage Equality: The Future of LGBT Rights. New York ; New York University Press, 2016. http://books.google.com/books?vid=isbn9781479883080.

———. From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation. 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) vols. Queer Action/Queer Ideas. Boston: Beacon Press, 2010. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10392363.

Barton, Bernadette. Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays. New York, NY: New York University, 2012. http://books.google.com/books?vid=isbn9780814786376.

Being Gay: Coming out in the 21st Century. Lawrence, NJ: Cambridge Educational, 2005.

Bergman, David. Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris. Living Out. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.

Bérubé, Allan, John D’Emilio, and Estelle B. Freedman. My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Boag, Peter. Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10048750.

Brettschneider, Marla, Susan Burgess, and Christine Keating. LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2017. https://libapps.cmich.edu/printpda/order?isbn=9781479893874.

Bronski, Michael. A Queer History of the United States. ReVisioning American History. Boston: Beacon Press, 2011.

Bruce, Katherine McFarland. Pride Parades: How a Parade Changed the World. New York: New York University Press, 2016.

Bullough, Vern L. Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context. Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2002.

Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy045/2004040226.html.

Carter, Julian. The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10217165.

Cervini, Eric. The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America. First edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

De la Croix, St Sukie. Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall. 1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations vols. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10611813.

Downs, Jim. Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2016. http://books.google.com/books?vid=isbn9780465032709.

Dugger, Mary. The History of Lesbian Hair: And Other Tales of Bent Life in a Straight World. 1st ed. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

Faderman, Lillian, and Stuart Timmons. Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians. New York: Basic Books, 2006. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006023470.html.

Fejes, Fred. Gay Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America’s Debate on Homosexuality. 1st Palgrave Macmillan paperback ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Fellows, Will, Helen P. Branson, and Blanche M. Baker. Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010.

Fetner, Tina. How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism. Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, v. 31. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0812/2008009096.html.

Foster, Thomas A. Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. New York: New York University Press, 2007. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007000134.html.

Garber, Linda. Lesbian Sources: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles, 1970-1990. Garland Gay and Lesbian Studies, vol. 9. New York: Garland, 1993.

Ghaziani, Amin. The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007045305-t.html.

Gill-Peterson, Jules. Histories of the Transgender Child. 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) vols. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv75d87g.

Gray, Mary L., Colin R. Johnson, and Brian Joseph Gilley. Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies. Intersections: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Genders and Sexualities. New York: New York University Press, 2016. http://books.google.com/books?vid=isbn9781479830770.

Griffin, Connie, and Dorothy Allison. Crooked Letter i: Coming out in the South. Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2015.

Hames-Garcia, Michael Roy, and Ernesto Javier Martínez. Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.

Hammack, Phillip L., and Bertram J. Cohler. The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course. Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2009. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0819/2008023689.html.

Hertzog, Mark. The Lavender Vote: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics. New York: New York University Press, 1996. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/96004520-b.html.

Holmlund, Chris, and Cynthia Fuchs. Between the Sheets, in the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, and Gay Documentary. Visible Evidence, v. 1. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/soton-ebooks/detail.action?docID=310389.

Jacques, Juliet. Trans: A Memoir. London: Verso, 2015.

Johnson, E. Patrick. Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

———. No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies. Durham ; Duke University Press, 2016.

———. Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0811/2008005617.html.

Johnson, E. Patrick, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.

Jones, Cleve. When We Rise: My Life in the Movement. First edition. New York: Hachette Books, 2016.

Jones, Sonya L., and John P. De Cecco. A Sea of Stories: The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay and Lesbian Cultures : A Festschrift for John P. De Cecco. Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2000.

Kobabe, Maia, Phoebe Kobabe, and Oni Press. Gender Queer: A Memoir. Portland, OR: Oni Press, 2022.

Kumashiro, Kevin K. Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian-Pacific-American Activists. Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2004.

Kumbier, Alana. Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive. 1 online resource (266 pages) vols. Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies, Number 5. Sacramento, California: Litwin Books, 2014. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10894591.

LaFleur, Greta, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Kłosowska. Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2021.

Lewis, Carolyn Herbst. Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Love, Heather. Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007017269.html.

Meadow, Tey. Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.

Mecca, Tommi Avicolli. Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation. San Francisco, Calif.: City Lights Books, 2009. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2008036997-b.html.

Meeker, Martin. Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005021934.html.

Miller, Quinlan. Camp TV: Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History. 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) vols. Console-Ing Passions : Television and Cultural Power. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2093801.

Mogul, Joey L., Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock. Queer (in)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. Queer Action/Queer Ideas. Boston: Beacon Press, 2011. http://books.google.com/books?isbn=9780807051160.

Morris, Bonnie J. The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture. SUNY Series in Queer Politics and Cultures. Albany: SUNY Press, 2016.

Morris, Charles E. Queering Public Address: Sexualities in American Historical Discourse. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006038763.html.

Mumford, Kevin J. Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Nelson, Emmanuel S. (Emmanuel Sampath). Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press, 2009. http://books.google.com/books?isbn=9780313348594.

Poehlmann, Tristan. The Stonewall Riots: The Fight for LGBT Rights. 1 online resource : illustrations. vols. Hidden Heroes. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Essential Library, an imprint of Adbo Publishing, 2017. https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=6807523C-A260-4270-B603-8555C2C37D64.

Quesada, Uriel, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz. Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism. First edition. 1 online resource vols. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3443768.

Rodriguez, Juana Maria. Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces. Sexual Cultures. New York: New York University Press, 2003. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10137161.

Rothblum, Esther D., and Penny Sablove. Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, 2005. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005004193.html.

Ryan, Hugh. When Brooklyn Was Queer. First edition. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.

Schiavi, Michael R. Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo. Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.

Shneer, David, and Caryn Aviv. American Queer, Now and Then. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip062/2005030857.html.

Skidmore, Emily. True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. 1 online resource (v, 253 pages) : illustrations vols. New York: New York University Press, 2017. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1497321.

Spring, Justin. Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade. First edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1108/2009043086-s.html.

Stein, Marc. The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History. New York: New York University Press, 2019.

———. The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History. New York: New York University Press, 2019.

Stewart-Winter, Timothy. Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics. 1 online resource vols. Politics and Culture in Modern America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2016. http://site.ebrary.com/id/11149363.

Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen. San Francisco, California? BlackStarMedia, 2008.

Stryker, Susan. Transgender History. Seal Studies. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0810/2008005316.html.

Stryker, Susan, Jim Van Buskirk, and Armistead Maupin. Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0738/95036093-b.html.

Stryker, Susan, and Stephen Whittle. The Transgender Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2006. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037854.html.

Valentine, David. Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006304.html.

Vitagliano, Paul. Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing up Gay. Philadelphia, PA: Quirk Books, 2012. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1306/2011946059-b.html.