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This index lists texts related to the history and culture of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Works
Fiction
Ancient times
- Eclogue II, a 42—38 BCE homoerotic poem by Virgil
- Symposium by Plato (c. 385–370 BCE)
- Satyricon by Petronius (1st century BCE)
Early modern era
- Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1749 pornographic novel by John Cleland, featuring homosexual scene
Modern era
- Gamiani, or Two Passionate Nights, 1833 lesbian erotic novel by Alfred de Musset
- The Girl with the Golden Eyes, 1835 short story by Honoré de Balzac
- Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania, 1870 gay novel by Bayard Taylor
- Carmilla, 1872 lesbian vampire fiction novel by Sheridan Le Fanu
- A Marriage Below Zero, 1889 gay novel by Alfred J. Cohen
- Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, 1893 gay pornographic novel, widely attributed to Oscar Wilde
- The Green Carnation, 1894 gay novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
- Des Grieux, the Prelude to Teleny, 1899 gay pornographic novel, widely attributed to Oscar Wilde
- Escal Vigor, 1899 gay novel by Georges Eekhoud
- A Strange Railroad Wreck, 1904 lesbian female-to-male crossdressing story by George Collins
- Imre: A Memorandum, 1906 gay novel by Xavier Mayne, widely considered to be the first one with a happy ending.
- Butterfly Man, 1934 gay novel by Lew Levenson
- Maybe—Tomorrow, 1952 gay erotic novel by Jay Little
Non-fiction
Studies
- Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd by Thomas Cannon (1749)
- Psychopathia Sexualis, with especial reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-legal Study, 1892, 7th edition, foundational study of sexual pathology with special attention to male homosexuality by Austro-German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, English translation by Charles Gilbert Chaddock
- A Problem in Modern Ethics, Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion, a 1896 study by John Addington Symonds
- The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, a large 1908 study on homosexuality by Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
Other documents
- Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, 1912 autobiography of Alexander Berkman, including notes on prison homosexuality
- Proclamation 5709, 1987 about HIV/AIDS by U.S. President Ronald Reagan
- Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act, 2003, enacted by the Parliament of South Africa
- Declaration of Montreal on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Human Rights, 2006 by the International Conference on LGBT Human Rights
- The Dedication of Harvey Milk Statue, 2008 by Nancy Pelosi
- Proclamation 8387: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, 2009, by U.S. President Barack Obama
- Celebrating LGBT Pride Month, 2010 by Alcee Lamar Hastings
- Designating Stonewall National Monument (Presidential Weekly Address - 25 June 2016), by U.S. President Barack Obama
- Military Service by Transgender Individuals, 2017 Presidential Memorandum by Donald Trump