Pride 2020: 17 must-read books about LGBTQ history

by NBC News
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17 books
From “Real Queer America” to “Sister Outsider,” these new bestsellers and iconic classics cover everything from equality and representation to homophobia.
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The Gay Revolution

The Story of the Struggle
Lillian Faderman, 2016

And The Band Played on

Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Randy Shilts, 2000

Love Wins

The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality
Debbie Cenziper, Jim Obergefell, 2016

How to Survive a Plague

The Story of how Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS
David France, 2017

When We Rise

My Life in the Movement
Cleve Jones, 2016

Sister Outsider

Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde, 2020

The Men with the Pink Triangle

The True, Life-And-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps (Large Print 16pt)
Heinz Heger, 2010

The Lavender Scare

The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
David K. Johnson, 2009

The Celluloid Closet

Homosexuality in the Movies
Vito Russo, 1987

Transgender Warriors

Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
Leslie Feinberg, 1996

This Day in June

Gayle E. Pitman, 2014

Transgender History

Susan Stryker, 2009

Black on Both Sides

A Racial History of Trans Identity
C. Riley Snorton, 2017

Crip Theory

Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Robert McRuer, 2006

Real Queer America

LGBT Stories from Red States
Samantha Allen, 2019

The Stonewall Reader

New York Public Library, 2019

The Deviant's War

The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
Eric Cervini, 2020