McGarry and Wasserman, Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History ... , especially pp. 3-138.
Lilian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in the Twentieth Century, "Introduction," Chs. 1-5. (1-138)
Lilian Faderman, To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America--A History (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Male Gay World 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994), remaining portions other than Chapter 10 which is assigned week 5 .
Martin Dubermann, About Time: Exploring the Gay Past (2nd ed., 1991)] Martin Duberman, George Chauncey, et al Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (1989)
Marcy Adelman, Long Time Passing: Lives of Older Lesbians (Boston: Alyson, )
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), Chapters 2, 3, 7 8-10, 12 (pp. 23-53, 108-125, 129-195, 223-239).
Barry Adam, The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement (Boston: Twayne, 1987)