Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman, Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America (New York Public Library/Penguin Studio, 1998), especially pop. 3-138.
Larry Gross and James D. Woods (eds.), The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (Columbia University Press, 1999).
Keith Boykin, One More River to Cross, Chapter 2 (pp. 30-84)
*John D'Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States 1940-1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), ch. 1 (pp. 9-22).
Kevin Jennings (ed.), Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History. (Boston: Alyson Publications, 1994)
Allan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II (Plume, 1991)
Jim Kepner, Our Movement Before Stonewall (International Gay and Lesbian Archives, 1989)
Eric Marcus, Making History (Harper-Collins, 1992)
Toby Marotta, Politics of Homosexuality (Houghton-Mifflin, 1981)
John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1988)]
Ina Rulless (ed.), Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life, 1918-1945 (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993)