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- Patricia Highsmith (Claire Morgan), The Price of Salt (Carol), 1952.
- James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, 1956.
- Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, 1964.
- Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, 1968.
- Ann Allen Shockley, Loving Her, 1974.
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, 1988.
- Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy, 1994.
- Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, 1998.
- Henry Abelove et al., eds., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (Routledge, 1993 and Kindle):
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Gayle S. Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality”
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Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”
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Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”
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Joan W. Scott, “The Evidence of Experience”
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David M. Halperin, “Is There a History of Sexuality?”
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Martha Vicinus, “‘They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong’: The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity”
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John D’Emilio, “Capitalism and Gay Identity”