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.

boykeats:

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