United States Queer History
Romesburg, D. (Ed.). (2018). The Routledge History of Queer America. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315747347..
Chauncey, George. Gay New York. Basic Books, 2008.
Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. Columbia University Press, 1991.
Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. St. Martin’s Press, 1987.
Stryker, Susan. Transgender History, Third Edition: A Resource for Today’s Struggle—and Tomorrow’s. Seal Press, 2026.
Gill-Peterson, Jules. A Short History of Trans Misogyny. Verso Books, 2024.
Frantz, David E., Christina Linden, and Chris E. Vargas. Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects. Hirmer and Museum of Trans History & Art, 2024.
Mumford, Kevin J. Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis. 1st ed. The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Midwestern & Collegiate Queer History:
Dilley, Patrick. Gay Liberation to Campus Assimilation: Early Non-Heterosexual Student Organizing at Midwestern Universities. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04645-3.
D’Emilio, John. Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University. Routledge, 1992.
Fellows, Will. Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest. University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/12758/.
Forstie, Clare. Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community. New York, USA: New York University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479801893.001.0001.
Rural Queer Histories:
Johnson, Colin R. Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America. Temple University Press, 2013. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1bw1k4j.
Rosenberg, Gabriel N. The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt173zm92.
Herring, Scott. Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism. New York, USA: New York University Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790939.001.0001.
Emily Skidmore. True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. NYU Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pwt5nm.
Cartwright, Ryan Lee. Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity. The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Gray, Mary L., Colin R. Johnson, and Brian Joseph Gilley, eds. Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies. New York University Press, 2016. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1804134.
General Oral History Methods:
Sommer, Barbara W., and Mary Kay Quinlan. The Oral History Manual. Fourth edition. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.
Ritchie, Donald A. Doing Oral History. Third edition. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Neuenschwander, John A., and Oral History Association. A Guide to Oral History and the Law. Second edition. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Maynes, Mary Jo, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett. Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History. Cornell University Press, 2008.
Queer Public and Oral History Methodologies:
Murphy, Kevin P., Jennifer L. Pierce, and Jason Ruiz. 2016. “What Makes Queer Oral History Different.” The Oral History Review 43 (1): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1093/ohr/ohw022.
Billund-Phibbs, Myra. 2025. “Psychiatrist, Surgeon, Historian: Authority, Risk, and Mid-Century Legacies in the Practice of Trans Oral History.” Australian Feminist Studies, September, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2025.2555523.
Summerskill, C., Tooth Murphy, A., & Vickers, E. New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption (1st ed.). Routledge, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003092032
Stein, Marc. Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism. University of California Press, 2022.