
Keaton! I was wondering if you knew any good books/films etc that are good to learn about queer history? any and all time period is perfect.
AIDS SPECIFIC
- Angels in America (1991 play, 2003 miniseries)
- Borrowed Time (1988 memoir)
- Closer to the Knives (1991 memoir)
- How to Survive a Plague (2012 documentary)
- The Normal Heart (1985 play, 2014 film)
- Unending Dialogue: Voices from an AIDS Poetry Workshop (1991 anthology)
POC EXPERIENCES
- Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memories (2016 book)
- Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (2003 book)
- Paris is Burning (1990 documentary)
- Queer Asian American Historiography (2016 essay)
- Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism (2015 book)
- Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists (2003 book)
HISTORICAL FIGURES
- Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003 documentary)
- Chris and Don: A Love Story (2007 documentary, about Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy)
- Frida (2002 film, about Frida Kahlo)
- Pride (2014 film, about Mark Ashton and LGSM)
- Wilde (1997 film, about Oscar Wilde)
- Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale (2007 documentary)
BOOKS
- Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (1993)
- Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two (1990)
- Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 (1994)
- Homosexuality and Civilization (2003)
- Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (1991)
- Queer London: Perils and Pleasures of the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (2005)
- Transgender History (2008)
- Transgender Warriors (1996)
MISC
- Making Gay History (podcast)
- Making Queer History (online article series)
- The Celluloid Closet (1995 documentary)
- The Mattachine Podcast





























