Selected Bibliography 2000-2010

Benshoff, Harry M. Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Betz, Phyllis M. Lesbian Detective Fiction: Woman as Author, Subject, and Reader. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.

Bosman, Ellen. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Literature: A Genre Guide. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2008.

Carbado, Devon W., and others. eds. Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction. San Francisco: Cleis, 2002.

Cart, Michael and Jenkins, Christine A. The Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006.

Contreras, Daniel T. Unrequited Love and Gay Latino Culture: What Have You Done to My Heart? NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Day, Frances A., and Nancy Garden. Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults. Westport: Greenwood, 2000.

Elledge, Jim. ed. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Myths from the Arapaho to the Zuñi: An Anthology. NY: Peter Lang, 2002.

- - -. Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2004.

Haggerty, George E. Queer Gothic. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006.

Herring, Scott. Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007.

Hoad, Neville. African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2007.

Jeffs, William P. Feminism, Manhood, and Homosexuality: Intersections in Psychoanalysis and American Poetry. NY: Peter Lang, 2003.

Jones, Norman W. Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction: Sexual Mystery and Post-Secular Narrative. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Markowitz, Judith, and Katherine V. Forrest. The Gay Detective Novel: Lesbian and Gay Main Characters and Themes in Mystery Fiction. Jefferson: McFarland, 2004.

Nealon, Christopher. Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall. Durham: Duke UP, 2001.

Nissen, Axel. ed. The Romantic Friendship Reader: Love Stories Between Men in Victorian America. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2003.

Piontek, Thomas. Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006.

Richards, Gary. Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2005.

Ridinger, Robert B. ed. Speaking for Our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian Rights (1892-2000). NY: Harrington Park, 2004.

Robinson, David M. Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature: Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-Century. Burlington: Ashgate, 2006.

Saxey, Esther. Homoplot: The Coming-Out Story and Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity. NY: Peter Lang, 2008.

Schwarz, A. B. Christa. Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003.

Somerville, Siobhan B. Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture. Durham: Duke UP, 2000.

Stockton, Kathryn B. Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer."  Durham: Duke UP, 2006.

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Bram, Christopher. Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America. NY: Twelve, 2012.

Castiglia, Christopher. If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012.

Davidson, Guy. Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Davies, Catherine A. Whitman's Queer Children: America's Homosexual Epics. NY: Continuum, 2012.

De Villiers, Nicholas. Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012.

Dickel, Simon. Black/Gay: The Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Era, and Constructions of Black Gay Identity in the 1980s and 90s. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2012.

Gerstner, David A. Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2011.

Hall, Justin. ed. No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics, 2012.

Harker, Jaime. Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2013.

Mentxaka, Aintzane L. Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.

Nair, Sashi. Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism: Reading Romans à Clef between the Wars. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Pearl, Monica B. AIDS Literature and Gay Identity: The Literature of Loss. NY: Routledge, 2013.

Rifkin, Mark. The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012.

Rivera-Servera, Ramón H. Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2013.

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