Queer stories didn’t start with Stonewall — they’ve always been here. Our History collection uncovers the lives, loves, and legacies of those who dared to exist out loud (or in whispers) long before the world was ready. From ancient empires and renaissance courts to 20th-century revolutions and modern movements, these books trace the hidden threads of LGBTQ+ life across time and culture.
Discover the rebels, romantics, and revolutionaries who shaped our world — whether through activism, art, or audacity. Because history isn’t straight, and Queerazon is here to make sure it never reads that way again.
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A landmark history that centers Black queer and trans lives in the American freedom struggle, tracing LGBTQ+ Black history from slavery to today and reclaiming stories long erased from the historical record.
Thomas Mallon offers a witty and insightful exploration of famous diaries throughout history, revealing the private thoughts, creative processes, and emotional lives of writers, artists, and historical figures. Charming and deeply literary, A Book of One’s Own celebrates the diary as both personal confession and enduring art form.
This 1822 scandal pamphlet exposes the arrest of the Bishop of Clogher after he was discovered with a common soldier at the White Lion public house in London. Furious, sensational, and openly queer, it attacks hypocrisy in the church and press while preserving a rare early account of a public same-sex scandal.
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An oral history of Chicago’s Belmont Rocks, a legendary queer gathering place where community, visibility, and freedom flourished in broad daylight. Paperback, April 5, 2026. ISBN: 1968983023.
A deeply researched second volume exploring the lives of thirty-nine men connected to the 1902 Lord Battersea scandal, expanding the hidden history behind a pivotal queer historical event.
A controversial eighteenth-century medical treatise by physician Samuel-Auguste Tissot examining the supposed health effects of masturbation and sexual excess. Once highly influential, the book now stands as a revealing historical document about medicine, morality, and sexuality in the Enlightenment era.
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The true story of Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, who fled 18th-century Ireland to live together for life — a timeless tale of devotion, courage, and queer companionship.
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A groundbreaking 1918 queer memoir and one of the earliest published autobiographies by a gender-nonconforming author. Autobiography of an Androgyne offers a rare firsthand account of queer identity, “fairie” culture, and underground LGBTQ+ life in turn-of-the-century America.
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A sweeping, essential collection of essays honoring Bayard Rustin—the gay civil rights strategist behind the 1963 March on Washington—restoring him to his rightful place as a key architect of nonviolent resistance, economic justice, and queer political history.
A fascinating new biography of George Sand, the trailblazing nineteenth-century writer who challenged social conventions, transformed literature, and redefined what it meant to be a woman, artist, and public intellectual.
A thought-provoking academic analysis of transgender antidiscrimination law, examining how legal debates reveal deeper cultural anxieties about sex, identity, and justice.
In this powerful memoir, Danny Ramadan recounts his journey from Damascus through the underground queer networks of the Middle East, imprisonment and upheaval, exile, and ultimately resettlement in Vancouver. Both intimate and unsparing, Crooked Teeth challenges simplistic narratives about refugees by making room for joy, love, danger, and complicated memories.
Oscar Wilde’s legendary prison letter, written during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol in 1897. De Profundis is a powerful meditation on suffering, love, art, disgrace, spirituality, and queer identity, revealing a deeply personal side of Wilde rarely seen in his more famous comedies and novels. A landmark work of LGBTQ+ literary history.
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Blending memoir, queer history, romance, and political reflection, Deep House tells the story of two men building a life together during the fight over the Defense of Marriage Act in the 1990s. Funny, intimate, and deeply insightful, Jeremy Atherton Lin’s acclaimed memoir explores love, immigration, queer community, and the hidden histories of outlaw relationships.
A landmark collection celebrating the lives, faith, and activism of LGBTQIA+ Unitarian Universalists through personal stories, historical documents, and a richly documented history of inclusion and justice.
A compelling examination of disability justice and revolutionary disability politics, with lessons for broader liberatory movements. Robert McRuer explores the intersections of queer and crip movements, mad pride, neurodiversity, and global disability activism.
A powerful photographic celebration of women’s work and self-expression, featuring 300 portraits that trace how women have dressed for power, purpose, and progress—across generations and around the world.
A landmark Renaissance tragedy exploring power, desire, and political downfall. This Arden edition of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II features extensive annotations and scholarship examining the play’s historical importance, queer themes, and lasting influence on theatre and culture.
The first authorized biography of Elizabeth Taylor, tracing the Hollywood legend’s extraordinary career, tumultuous private life, business savvy, and groundbreaking activism in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
The groundbreaking story of Renée Richards, the tennis pioneer whose fight to compete in the women’s draw of the 1977 US Open made her one of the most important figures in transgender sports history.
A powerful memoir of queer and political awakening, Fire in Every Direction follows Tareq Baconi’s journey across borders and generations—from his family’s displacement in 1948 to his own search for belonging as a gay Palestinian man in exile.
An intimate memoir from Freddie Mercury’s longtime personal assistant, offering a heartfelt behind-the-scenes portrait of one of rock music’s greatest performers.
An iconic visual history of 1990s gay New York nightlife, featuring over 230 original club flyers from legendary venues, with commentary from Michael Musto, Lady Bunny, and other nightlife legends. Hardcover.
A candid, darkly funny memoir of love, art, and survival in downtown New York’s 1980s art scene. Peter McGough recounts his intense partnership with David McDermott, meteoric success, and the devastating impact of the AIDS crisis on a generation of queer artists.
A rare 1895 collection of Fire Island ghost stories and coastal folklore, filled with shipwrecks, buried treasure, and eerie Long Island legends retold in vivid period prose.
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Sarah Schulman’s groundbreaking history of ACT UP New York reveals how a diverse group of activists transformed AIDS policy, medicine, and culture through fearless protest and radical solidarity—an essential blueprint for today’s resistance movements.
A feminist reexamination of Regency England that spotlights queer women, women of color, Jewish pioneers, and scientific trailblazers erased from popular history. Mad and Bad reveals a Regency far richer and more radical than the myths suggest.
An illuminating memoir from one of America’s foremost LGBTQ historians, tracing his journey from a devout Catholic upbringing in the Bronx to becoming a pioneering voice in gay history and social justice.
A biography of Michael Field, the literary pseudonym of poets Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, exploring their remarkable lives, artistic partnership, poetry, and dramatic works. Mary Sturgeon’s 1922 study offers an intimate portrait of two women who devoted their lives to literature while deliberately creating together under a single name.
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The extraordinary story of two women whose love endured the horrors of war and Ravensbrück concentration camp. Gwen Strauss recovers a largely silenced history of Milena Jesenská and Margarete Buber-Neumann, celebrating their courage, resilience, and devotion.
An essential true crime investigation into the Toronto serial killings, Missing from the Village exposes how systemic racism and homophobia failed queer lives—and why accountability still matters.
Inspired by Travels with Charley, Lauren Hough travels across the United States in a refurbished van with her dog Woody, exploring modern American life through conversations, personal reflection, and sharp social commentary.
A stirring queer memoir of courage and activism, No Backup traces Malcolm Crockett’s journey from targeted RCMP harassment to global human rights advocacy—an inspiring testament to survival, solidarity, and the unbreakable spirit of a “good fairy.”
A riveting history of the Public Universal Friend, a nonbinary religious leader whose radical vision of gender, faith, and freedom challenged the limits of the American Revolution.
On Queer Homesteading by Lindsey Danis is a paperback prose chapbook exploring rural queer life, community building, and the connection between identity, land, and belonging.
A passionate exploration of LGBTQIA+ representation in horror cinema, blending personal reflection, film history, and sharp cultural analysis through twenty unforgettable horror film recommendations.
An exploration of bounce music and Black queer performance in post-Katrina New Orleans, Raising the Bottom examines how artists transformed displacement into community, power, and joy. Paperback, April 7, 2026. ISBN: 1478038616.
A riveting true crime history that uncovers a sensational 1922 murder case, exposing the intersections of wealth, media, class, and hidden queer lives during the Jazz Age.
This powerful history of ACT UP Shreveport tells the story of a small but fearless group of AIDS activists who challenged discrimination, transformed healthcare access, and fought for dignity and equality in the Deep South during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
A fascinating dual biography of architect Stanford White and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, whose friendship and artistic partnership helped shape America’s Gilded Age and the American Renaissance.
A major collection of five decades of writing by artist and feminist and lesbian art pioneer Harmony Hammond. Bringing together essays, reviews, artist’s statements, presentations, letters, and interviews, Still Dangerous! traces Hammond’s influential thinking on feminist and queer art, gender and sexuality, materiality, censorship, and abstraction.
A thought-provoking exploration of queer and feminist alternative art spaces across North America, examining how artists have challenged institutions, created community, and reimagined the possibilities of artistic practice from the 1960s to the present.
This lyrical biography in verse explores the life and revolutionary vision of Harry Hay, pioneering founder of the Mattachine Foundation and early architect of the modern gay rights movement.
Gertrude Stein’s playful, iconic memoir of queer life, art, and genius in Paris, told through the voice of Alice B. Toklas.
A comprehensive study of danmei, China’s boys’ love cultural phenomenon, and its evolution across literature, drama, audio, manga, and animation. Tingting Hu and Liang Ge examine how creators and fans navigate queer world-making, platform capitalism, and state censorship.
A powerful account of Britain’s early AIDS crisis, exposing political failure, stigma, and the human cost of delay. The End of Innocence is an essential work of LGBTQ history and public health reporting.
A sharp, timely analysis arguing that the gains of the gay rights movement are newly fragile—eroded by shifting cultural forces, political opposition, and internal strategic missteps—and that safeguarding queer freedom requires a reevaluation of the movement’s goals and limits.
After a family tragedy brings her back to the Irish homeland of her grandparents, Carolyn Brigit Flynn begins a journey through ancestral history, personal trauma, queer identity, and healing. Blending memoir with Irish history and spirituality, she explores what it means to make peace with the past and create a true sense of home.
A groundbreaking global study of LGBTQIA+ Pride events, exploring how they balance activism, inclusion, and visibility in a rapidly changing world—from grassroots protests to global celebrations.
A richly annotated collection of over 500 letters from avant-garde icon John Cage, offering sharp insight into his life, collaborations, philosophy, and artistry. This remainder hardcover delivers Cage’s wit and brilliance at an unbeatable price.
A powerful blend of memoir and history tracing two families’ intertwined survival through WWII exile—and the legacy of displacement across generations.
Hollywood gossip meets memoir in Hedda Hopper’s candid, combative account of the movie business and the stars who made it famous. From Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe to Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, and the Hollywood establishment itself, Hopper offers an insider’s view of celebrity, scandal, ambition, and life under the studio spotlight.
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An extraordinary collection of journals by pioneering trans artist and writer Red Jordan Arobateau, chronicling decades of queer life, artistic creation, gender transition, and survival on society’s margins.
Trixie and Katya take over world history in this hilarious drag-themed coloring book packed with campy reimaginings of famous events and historical figures. Featuring forty-four outrageous illustrations, Trixie and Katya Coloring Through History turns the past into a glitter-covered comedy spectacular.
A deeply moving memoir of survival, abuse, forgiveness, and healing, War Boys traces one family’s journey through the lasting legacy of World War II and the difficult path toward understanding across generations.
An updated, accessible, teen-friendly guide that answers more than 100 real questions about sexual orientation. Honest, supportive, and ideal for young adults, parents, and allies. This discounted remainder paperback offers full content at a great price.
John Birdsall explores the hidden history of queer influence on modern food culture, tracing how LGBTQ+ communities used cooking, dining, and hospitality as acts of creativity, resistance, survival, and joy. Rich with cultural history and unforgettable personalities, What Is Queer Food? is a groundbreaking celebration of food and queer identity.
