LGBTQ+ Pride Month - Recommended Readings
Written by Faculty:
Gregg Drinkwater
Visiting Assistant Professor - Sexuality and Gender / Judasim in Modern US
- Drinkwater, Gregg. “Queer Healing: AIDS, Gay Synagogues, Lesbian Feminists, and the Origins of the Jewish Healing Movement.” American Jewish History, vol. 104, no. 4, Oct. 2020, pp. 605–29.
Winner of the 2020 Wasserman Prize for best article in American Jewish History
"Gregg Drinkwater's article is an extraordinary, moving, and deftly constructed work of historical scholarship. Drawing on crucial interviews, a wide array of primary sources, and queer theory, the article uncovers a fascinating history of liturgical innovation in late 20th-century American Judaism, demonstrating how 'gay and lesbian Jewish leaders and their synagogues have helped reshape the relationship to healing, spirituality, and personal prayer among American Jews."
David Shneer
Late Professor, Jewish Studies / Holocaust Studies
- David Shneer & Caryn Aviv (eds). Queer Jews. New York: Routledge, 2002.
- Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser, and David Shneer (eds) Torah Queeries : Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
Further Recommendations:
- Beachy, Robert. Gay Berlin : Birthplace of a Modern Identity. Knopf, 2014.
- Bérubé, Allan. Coming out under Fire : The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two. Free Press, 1990.
- Canaday, Margot. The Straight State - Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton University Press, 2011.
- Capó Jr, Julio. Welcome to fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940. UNC Press Books, 2017.
- Carter, David. Stonewall : The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution. St. Martin’s Press, 2010.
- Cervini, Eric. The Deviant’s War : The Homosexual vs. the United States of America. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
- Chauncey, George. Gay New York : Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. Basic Books, 1994.
- Cleves, Rachel Hope. Charity and Sylvia: A same-sex marriage in early America. Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.
- Estes, Steve. Ask & Tell : Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak out. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
- Faderman, Lillian. The gay revolution: The story of the struggle. Simon and Schuster, 2015.
- Johnson, Patrick E. Sweet Tea : Black Gay Men of the South. University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
- Johnson, David K. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Kasmani, Omar. Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan.Duke University Press, 2022.
"A beautifully written meditation on the relationship between Islamic worship and queer life." - Professor Lucy Chester - Manion, Jen. Female husbands: a trans history. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Massad, Joseph Andoni. Desiring Arabs. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Mumford, Kevin J. “The Trouble with Gay Rights: Race and the Politics of Sexual Orientation in Philadelphia, 1969-1982.” The Journal of American History, vol. 98, no. 1, June 2011, pp. 49–72.
- Murray, Heather A. A. Not in This Family : Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
- Murray, Pauli. Song in a weary throat: Memoir of an American pilgrimage. Liveright Publishing, 2018.
"A memoir by a ground-breaking civil rights activist (who staged a bus protest in 1940), inspiring spiritual leader (ordained to the Episcopal Church at a time when it ordained very few women and no Black women), and person who transcended the gender binary and might today have identified as transgender." - Professor Lucy Chester - Najmabadi, Afsaneh. Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards : Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity. University of California Press, 2005.
- Royles, Dan. To Make the Wounded Whole : The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS. The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
- Schulman, Sarah. Israel/Palestine and the Queer International. Duke University Press, 2012.
- Schulman, Sarah. Let the Record Show : A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played on : Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. St. Martin’s Press.
"A classic analysis of how politics and disease intersected to catastrophic effect." - Professor Lucy Chester - Snorton, C.Riley. Black on Both Sides : A Racial History of Trans Identity. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
- Spring, Justin. Secret historian: The life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
- Stewart-Winter, Timothy. Queer Clout : Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- Stryker, Susan. Transgender History, Second Edition : The Roots of Today’s Revolution. Seal Press, 2017.
- Syrett, Nicholas L. An Open Secret : The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton. University of Chicago Press, 2021.