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(shelved 1 time as gay-historil-fictn). In honor of LGBTQ History Month, celebrated every October, here are books that aim to shed light on and clarify signifint historil moments that rmed and shaped the morn lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights movement.

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"The Gay Revolutn: The Story of the Stggle" by Lillian FarmanA thorough troductn to the history of the gay and lbian civil rights movements, this book chronicl the early stggl of LGBTQ dividuals om the 1950s to prent day g a pilatn of enlighteng terviews wh policians, ary officials and members of the muny. "When We Rise: My Life the Movement" by Cleve JonThis semi-tobgraphil acunt follows Cleve Jon as he explor his inty as a gay man the 1950s, disvers a muny and a e through his mentor, Harvey Milk, and p wh the ravagg effects of the AIDS epimic.

"Sister Outsir: Essays and Speech" by Audre LorA celebratn of tersectnaly, black lbian poet and femist Audre Lor analyz the prence of ageism, sexism, racism, classism and homophobia her own life through a llectn of lyril says and speech. "The Men wh the Pk Triangle" by Hez Heger (Used)In lurid tail, Hez Hager unfolds the te story of Josef Kohout — a man who was imprisoned a Nazi ncentratn mp for beg gay — and effectively remds the world of the torture gay dividuals suffered at the hands of the Nazi regime.

JohnsonWh the help of classified documents and terview wh ary officials, David Johnson argu that Senator Joseph McCarthy was jt as guilty of promotg anti-Communism paranoia as he was spirg polici that nsired homosexualy a threat to natnal secury. "The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi" by Vo RsoPublished 1987, Rso’s analysis of the portrayal of homosexualy film has laid the foundatn for the how we evaluate LGBTQ reprentatn film today and has supported the argument that reprentatn matters.

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"This Day June" by Gayle E. "The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. The Uned Stat of Ameri" by Eric CerviWhile many believe the fight for LGBTQ rights began at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn durg the summer of 1969, actually began wh a grassroots “homophile” movement that has been largely overlooked.

Cervi documents the work of Frank Kameny and other gay activists durg the late 1950s and ‘60s, illumatg their role layg the groundwork that would lead to the Stonewall NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram.

Who lands a venereal-disease ward for syphilis, surely bee Burns ntracted the disease after sex wh what he lled a Neapolan “dreadful” — the mpy slang term for “gay” he ed his letters to David MacMack, a gay stunt back at Loomis to whom he supplied what was surely the richt and most ndid scriptns ever of gay life the Amerin ary durg World War II. Undoubtedly the book’s most remarkable portra is of Momma, the proprietrs of the Galleria’s gay bar, where, every day but Sunday om 4:30 p.

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M., gay soldiers om every branch of the Grand Alliance gather to imbibe and cise and sometim sre. Whether Momma’s Bar ever really existed or was simply Burns’s earnt dream is unclear and, a way, irrelevant: for someone as evasive about his own sexualy as a gay man of his generatn had to be — ostentatly “datg” and pretendg perdilly to have a fiancée — was more than a startlgly rgg endorsement of gay culture; was an act of enormo and atypil, almost explible, urage.

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The men the gallery of gays (and, wh only a uple of exceptns, they are all men) “The Gallery” are alternately lonely, proud, unpleasant, sensive, offic, effemate, macho, offensive and lovable; other words, reasonably normal, rather than the suicidal eaks and crimals that had populated Amerin lerature, gay and straight, up to then. Whether out of disda and disfort or jt pla cluelsns, the book’s pervasive gayns — apparent not jt the chapter on Momma’s bar but om the “bobby p” clu sprkled throughout — was almost entirely ignored.

Time magaze was bold enough to mentn Burns’s “first-rate” pictn of “an eveng spent a homosexuals’ hangout, ” but few others touched the subject, even elliptilly. This nspiracy of silence sulated Burns om the hostily that greeted Gore Vidal’s more explicly gay novel, “The Cy and the Pillar, ” which appeared the followg year and which the hyperpetive Burns, who once lled Vidal “our prcipal rival the welterweight divisn, ” ttily dismissed as a “dismal failure. ” (Burns was equally cril of the era’s other major gay wrer, Tman Capote, llg his novel “Other Voic, Other Rooms” “nonsense” and predictg that Capote’s famo jacket photograph — featurg, as Burns scribed , “the fgernail polish, the waistat, the hairdo of a Mongolian idt” — would fish him.

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)Though ’s hard to document (there were not yet any gay publitns to speak of), gay rears immediately regnized “The Gallery” for the lerary landmark was and talked up.