This space is intended to be a growing public resource of queer bibliography: It lists well known and not so well known titles and authors. It has been built from recommendations by many people I have reached out to, thank you! If you would like to add new titles to this list please e-mail me at: mottacarlos(at)yahoo(dot)com
Abelolove, Henry
Deep Gossip
ACT UP NY (Women AIDS Book Group)
Women, AIDS, and Activism
Against Equality
Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage
Against Equality: Don't Ask To Fight Their Wars
Ahmed, Sara
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
The Promise of Happiness
Althus-Reid, Marcella
Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics
Allyson, Dorothy
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Arenas, Reinaldo
Before Night Falls
The Doorman
Bagemihl, Bruce
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
Baldwin, James
Another Country
Giovanni's Room
Go Tell It on the Mountain
If Beale Street Could Talk
Just Above My Head
Notes of a Native Son
Barnes, Djuna
Nightwood
Beauvoir de, Simone
The Second Sex
Bechdel, Alison
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Bernstein Sycamore, Mattilda
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
Bersani, Leo
Homos
Intimacies
Is the Rectum a Grave?: and Other Essays
The Freudian Body
Bergman, S. Bear
Butch is a Noun
Bey, Hakim
Black Fez Manifesto
Immediatism
T.A.Z. the Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
Bond, Justin Vivian
Tango
Bordowitz, Gregg
General Idea: Imagevirus (The AIDS Project)
The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003
Bornstein, Kate
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (edited with S. Bear Bergman)
Boswell, John
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Brett, Philip; Wood, Elizabeth; Gary C.Thomas
Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology
Bright Susie
Big Sex Little Death
X: The Erotic Treasury
Brown, Rebecca
The Gifts of the Body
The Haunted House
The Terrible Girls
Browning, Frank
The Culture of Desire: Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives Today
Burg, Barry R.
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
Burroughs, William S.
Naked Lunch
Queer
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
Butler, Judith
Antigone's Claim
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Undoing Gender Subjects of Desire
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
Califia, Pat
Macho Sluts
Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex
Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism
Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex
Callen, Michael
Surviving AIDS
Cárdenas, Micha
Trans Desire
Carter, Angela
The Passion of New Eve
Cheng, Patrick S.
Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology
Chin, Staceyann
The Other Side of Paradise
Copi
La Guerre des pédés
Cooper, Denis
Closer
Frisk
Period
The Sluts
Coyote, Ivan E. and Sharman, Zena
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
Crimp, Douglas
AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism
AIDS Demo Graphics (edited with Adam Rolston)
Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics
Crisp, Quentin
How to Have a Life-Style
Manners from Heaven
The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp
Cruikshank, Margareth
The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement
Danbolt, Mathias, Rowley, Jane, and Wolthers, Louise
Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive
Dangerous Bedfellows
Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism
Dean, Tim
Beyond Sexuality
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (edited with Christopher Lane)
Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking
Deitcher, David
Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918
The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America Since Stonewall (edited with Armistead Maupin)
D’Emilio, John
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
Delany, Samuel R.
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
De Lauretis, Theresa
Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema
Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction
The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire
Dickinson, Emily
Poems, Three Series, Complete
Domurat Dreger, Alice
Hermaphrodites and the Invention of Sex
Doty, Alexander
Making Things Perfectly Queer
Duggan, Lisa
The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy
Duncan, Robert
“The Homosexual in Society” (First published in August 1944 in Politics 1:7)
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex
The Virgin Suicides
Faas, Ekbert
Young Robert Duncan: Portrait of the Poet As Homosexual in Society
Fausto-Sterling, Anne
Sexing the Body
Feinberg, Leslie
Stone Butch Blues
Transgender Warriors
Fone, Byrne
Homophobia: A History
Fornssler, Barbara
Affective Cyborgs
Fraser, John and Heimlich Joe E., eds.
"Where is Queer?," Museums & Social Issues: A Journal of Reflective Discourse, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring 2008.
Foucault, Michel
Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite)
The History of Sexuality
Freud, Sigmund
Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Genet, Jean
Miracle of the Rose
Our Lady of the Flowers
Prisoner of Love
Querelle
The Thief's Journal
Gerassi, John
The Boys From Boise: Furor, Vice and Folly in an American City
Gide, André
The Counterfeiters
Goffman, Erving
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
Goldberg, Susan and Brushwood Rose, Cholë
And Baby Makes More
Gómez-Arcos, Agustin
The Carnivorous Lamb
Gunn, Thom
The Man with Night Sweats
Hacker, Marilyn
Squares and Courtyards
Halberstam, Judith
Female Masculinity
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
The Queer Art of Failure
Halperin, David
Gay Shame
Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography
Hammond, Harmony
Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History
Haslett, Adam
You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories
Hawkins, Peter S.
‘Naming Names: The art of memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt’, in Greenberg, Reesa, Ferguson, Bruce W. and Nairne, Sandy. eds., Thinking about Exhibitions (London & New York: Routledge, 1996), pp. 133-156.
Heger, Heinz
Men with the Pink Triangle
Herdt, Gilbert (Ed.)
Third Sex / Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History
Hillman, Thea
Intersex (for lack of a better word)
Holleran, Andrew
Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath
Dancer from the Dance
Grief
Hooks, Bell
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Communion: The Female Search for Love
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Holmes, Morgan
Critical Intersex
Intersex: A perilous difference
Humphreys, Laud
Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places
Jacobsen, Mary
Blood Sisters: A Novel of an Epic Friendship
Jarman, Derek
At Your Own Risk
Kessler, Suzanne J.
Lessons from the Intersexed
Kreouac, Jack
Desolation Angels
On the Road
Koestenbaum, Wayne and Kushner, Tony
The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire
Kugle, Scott
Homosexuality in Islam: Islamic Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
Kureishi, Hanif
The Black Album
The Buddha of Suburbia
Kushner, Tony
Angels in America
LTTR (www.lttr.org)
Laud, Humphreys
Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places
Levin, Amy K.
Gender, Sexuality, and Museums
Levin, Lauren
Same Sex in the City: (So Your Prince Charming Is Really a Cinderella)
Lorde, Audre
Coal
Our Dead Behind Us
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Edited with Cheryl Clarke)
The Black UnicornThe Cancer Journals
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
Undersong
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Lorde, Catherine
The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation
Love, Heather
Feeling Backward
Lubin-Levy, Joshua and Motta, Carlos
Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public
Luibhéid, Eithne and Cantú, Lionel Jr.
Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings
Kramer, Larry
Faggots
The Tragedy of Today's Gays
Markson, David
Wittgenstein's Mistress
McCaskell, Tim
Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality
McNeill, John J.
Taking a Chance on God
Mendelsohn, Daniel
The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity
Meyer, Richard
Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art
Miller, Tim
1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels
Mishima, Yukio
Colors
Confessions of a Mask
Forbidden
Moore, Patrick
Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality
Muñoz, José Esteban
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Disidentifications: Queers Of Color And The Performance Of Politics
Murray, Raymond
Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video
Myles, Eileen
Chelsea Girls
Inferno
Not Me
The Importance of Being Iceland
The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading
Nanda, Serena
The Hijras of India: Neither Man Nor Woman
Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations
Nestle, Joan
A Restricted Country
Nimmons, David
The Soul Beneath the Skin
O’Hara, Frank
Lunch Poems
"Un Chant D'Amour" first appeared in Fuck You, a magazine of the Arts.
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Theorem
Povinelli, Elizabeth
The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality
Preciado, Beatriz
Manifeste contra-sexuel Pornotopia
Testo yonqui
Preves, Sharon E.
Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self
Proust, Marcel
Remembrance of Things Past
Purdy, James
In a Shallow Grave
Quiroga, José
Mapa Callejero: Crónicas sobre lo gay desde América Latina
Queen, Carol A.
Exhibitionism for the Shy: Show Off, Dress Up and Talk Hot!
Five-Minute Erotica
Leather Daddy and the Femme
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (edited with Lawrence Schimel and Kate Bornstein)
Rendell, Jane; Penner, Barbara; and Borden, Iain
Gender Space Architecture: An interdisciplinary introduction
Ricco, John Paul
The Logic of the Lure
Rich, Adrienne
What is Found There
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far
Blood, Bread, and Poetry
Diving Into The Wreck: Poems
Fox Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution The Dream of a Common Language
The Fact of a Doorframe
Roughgarden, Joan
Evolution's Rainbow
Rubin, Gayle
Deviations–A Gayle Rubin Reader that includes:
"The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex"
"Thinking Sex"
"The Catacombs: A temple of the butthole"
"The Leather Menace"
"The Miracle Mile: South of Market and Gay Male Leather in San Francisco 1962- 1996"
Russel, Ina
Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life 1918-1945
Russo, Vito
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
Sáez, Javier and Carrascosa, Sejo
Por el culo: políticas anales
Sandell, Richard
Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference
Sanders, Joel
Stud: Architectures of Masculinity
Sears, Alan and Osten, Craig
The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today
Schneebaum, Tobias
Keep the River on Your Right
Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the Jungle of New Guinea
Schulman, Sarah
My American History
Stagestruck
The Gentrification of the Mind
Ties That Bind
Sedgwick, Eve K.
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
Epistemology of the Closet
Novel Gazing
Tendencies Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Shepard, Benjamin and Smithsimon, Greg
The Beach Beneath the Streets: Contesting New York City's Public Spaces
Silverman, Kaja
Flesh of My Flesh
Male Subjectivity at the Margins
The Threshold of the Visible World
Spade, Dean
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Spring, Justin
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tatoo Artist and Sexual Renegade
Stanley, Eric A. and Smith, Nat
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Stein, Gertrude
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Tender Buttons
Stephens, Nathalie
The Sorrow And The Fast Of It
Stryker, Susan
Transgender History
Tin, Louis-Georges
The Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience
Torr, Diane and Stephen Bottoms
Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance
Tucker, Scott
The Queer Question: Essays on Desire and Democracy
Vidal, Gore
1876
Empire
Hollywood
Vidarte, Paco
Etica marica
David Wojnarowicz
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of DisintegrationIn the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
Seven Miles a Second
The Waterfront Journals
Tongues Of Flame
Warner, Michael
Fear Of A Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory
Publics and Counterpublics
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
Watney, Simon
Policing Desire
Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS
Weinberg, Thomas S.
S&M Studies in Dominance & Submission
Wilde, Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilson, Lamborn Peter
Pirate Utopias
Winterson, Jeanette
The Passion Written on the Body
Whitaker, Rick
Assuming the Position: A Memoir of Hustling
White, Edmund
A Boy's Own Story: A Novel
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
Genet: A Biography
Marcel Proust: A Life
Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel
The Farewell Symphony
The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
Whitman, Walt
Leaves of Grass
Woolf, Virginia
Orlando
