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• American Homo: Community and Perversity (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeffrey Escoffier (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality (New York and London: New York University Press, c1994), ed. by R. Jeffrey Ringer (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Read This Before Coming Out to Your Parents (c1995), by Tom Sauerman (HTML at bidstrup.com)
• The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach (New York: Greenberg, 1951), by Donald Webster Cory, contrib. by Albert Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• National Institute of Mental Health Task Force on Homosexuality : final report and background papers (Rockville, Maryland : U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health ; Washington, D.C. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [1976], 1976), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Task Force on Homosexuality and John M. Livingood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary report of the Military Working Group. (Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1993), by United States. Dept. of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. Military Working Group (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorandum for the Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Air Force, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff : subject, policy on homosexual conduct in the Armed Forces. (Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1993), by United States. Dept. of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense and United States. Dept. of Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crittendon [sic] report (s.n., 1957), by S. H. Crittenden and United States Navy Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sexual preference. (Dept. of State :, 1977), by United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lesbian Connection (selected issues, 1974-1989) (partial serial archives)
• Ain't I a Woman? (Iowa-city based feminist periodical, 1970-1974) (partial serial archives)

• Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Paula C. Rust (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Working Papers on Gay/Lesbian Liberation and Socialism (Chicago: New American Movement, 1979), ed. by New American Movement Socialist Feminist Commission (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Autobiography of an Androgyne, by Ralph Werther, ed. by Alfred W. Herzog (Gutenberg ebook)

• Trial of Samuel M. Andrews, for the murder of Cornelius Holmes (True Plymouth Rock Office: W.W. Avery, printer, no. 1 Court Street, Plymouth, Mass., 1868), by Samuel M. Andrews and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gay Liberation and Socialism: Documents From the Discussions on Gay Liberation Inside the Socialist Workers Party (1970-1973) (second printing, 1976), ed. by David Thorstad
  • Part 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 3: multiple formats at archive.org
• Working Papers on Gay/Lesbian Liberation and Socialism (Chicago: New American Movement, 1979), ed. by New American Movement Socialist Feminist Commission (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bay Area Reporter (1971-; at this writing issues online 2000-) (partial serial archives)

• Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida: A Report of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (1964), by Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (page images at ufl.edu)

• McCarthyism in Florida: Charley Johns and the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee July, 1956 to July, 1965 (1985), by Bonnie Stark (PDF at flvc.org)

• Sexual preference. (Dept. of State :, 1977), by United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civil Rights Amendments Act of 1979 : Hearing before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, H.R 2074 ... hearing held in San Francisco, Calif., October 10, 1980. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1981), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hearing on Civil Rights Act amendments of 1981 hearing before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on H.R. 1454 ... hearing held in Washington, D.C., on January 27, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musgrave Amendment (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2004), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hearing on Civil Rights Act amendments of 1981 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on H.R. 1454 ... hearing held in Washington, D.C., on January 27, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1982), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Homo: Community and Perversity (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeffrey Escoffier (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Working Papers on Gay/Lesbian Liberation and Socialism (Chicago: New American Movement, 1979), ed. by New American Movement Socialist Feminist Commission (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beside you in time : sense methods & queer sociabilities in the American 19th century (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019., 2019), by Elizabeth Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Homotopia? Gay Identity, Sameness and the Politics of Desire (Punctum Books, 2015), by Jonathan Kemp (PDF with commentary at punctumbooks.com)
• A Gay Humanist Manifesto (c2011), by Alan Keslian (PDF in the UK)
• Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process (originally published 1971), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)
• Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes (in German; Berlin: L. Marcus, 1914), by Magnus Hirschfeld
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Homo-Sexual Life (Little Blue Book #692; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., c1925), by William J. Fielding (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women, by Edward Carpenter (HTML at Fordham)
• Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk: A Study in Social Evolution (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1914), by Edward Carpenter (HTML at edwardcarpenter.net)
• Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk: A Study in Social Evolution (London: George Allen and Co., 1914), by Edward Carpenter (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• A Problem in Greek Ethics: Being an Inquiry Into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion, Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists (1901), by John Addington Symonds
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Problem in Greek Ethics: Being an Inquiry Into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion, Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists (London: Privatey printed for the Areopagitica Society, 1908), by John Addington Symonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das gleichgeschlechtliche Leben der Naturvölker (E. Reinhardt, 1911), by Ferdinand Karsch-Haack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homosexuals today; a handbook of organizations & publications. (Publications Division of One, inc., 1956), by Inc One and Marvin Cutler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The homosexual and his society; a view from within (Citadel Press, 1963), by Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homosexuality in prisons (National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1972), by Peter C. Buffum and National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final report and background papers (National Institute of Mental Health; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1972), by United States. Task Force on Homosexuality and John M. Livingwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A problem in Greek ethics, being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists ([s.n.], 1901), by John Addington Symonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homosexuality, transvestism and change of sex. (Thomas, 1958), by Eugene de Savitsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study in sexual abnormalities (National Library Press, 1933), by La Forest Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The intermediate sex : a study of some transitional types of men and women (Kennerley, 1912), by Edward Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• 3e sexe (Paris-Édition ..., 1927), by Willy and Lawrence R. Schehr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homosexualité chez l'homme et chez la femme : physiologie et psychologie de l'inversion sexuelle (Librairie Artistique et Medicale, 1907), by Docteur Caufeynon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Liebe Platons im Lichte der modernen Biologie : gesammelte kleinere Schriften / von Benedict Friedlaender. (B. Zack, 1909), by Benedict Friedlaender (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les homosexuels de Berlin (J. Rousset, 1908), by Magnus Hirschfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Graeco-Roman view of youth (P. Sainsbury at the Cayme Press, 1926), by George Ives (page images at HathiTrust)
• National Institute of Mental Health Task Force on Homosexuality : final report and background papers (Rockville, Maryland : U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health ; Washington, D.C. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [1976], 1976), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Task Force on Homosexuality and John M. Livingood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shame of Oscar Wilde. From The Shorthand Reports... (Paris, 1906), by Oscar Wilde and Charles Brolleau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• National Institute of Mental Health Task Force on Homosexuality: final report and background papers. (National Institute of Mental Health; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, 1972), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Task Force on Homosexuality and John M. Livingood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The homosexual neurosis (R. G. Badger, 1922), by Wilhelm Stekel and James Samuel Van Teslaar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bi-sexual love; the homosexual neurosis (R. G. Badger, 1922), by Wilhelm Stekel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes pour servir à l'histoire secrète des ebugors. Statuts des Sodomites au XVIIe siècle. (Bibliothèque des curieux, 1910), by Raoul Vèze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final report of the Task Force on Homosexuality : October 10, 1969 ([Washington, D.C.], 1969), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Task Force on Homosexuality (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Homosexualite en Allemagne, étude documentaire et anecdotique (La Renaissance du Livre, 1908), by Henri de Weindel and F. P. Fischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Ergebnis der statistischen Untersuchungen über den Prozentsatz der Homosexuellen (M. Spohr, 1904), by Magnus Hirschfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Onanie und Homosexualität; die homosexuelle Neurose. (Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1921), by Wilhelm Stekel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der fall krupp, sein verlauf und seine folge. Ein Tatsachensammlung von **. (Druck und Verlag von G. Birk, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il problema dell'omosessualità e di tutte le degenerazioni sessuali innanzi alla scienza (Estratto dalla Biblioteca di Chpolavori Scientifici, 1900), by Cav. Pietro Fabiani (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The intermediate sex (AMS Press, 1983), by Edward Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Uranismus oder sogenannte gleichgeschlechtliche Liebe : ein Beitrag zur Aufklärung (Spohr, 1906), by J. E. Meisner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fug und unfug der jugendkultur; : hinweise und feststellungen nebst zahlreichen dokumenten jugenlicher erotik bei knaben. (O. Henning a.-g., 1914), by Rolf Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homosexualität (M. Lilienthal Verlag, 1903), by Erich Mühsam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gedanken zum Sexualitätsproblem (A. Marcus & E. Weber, 1922), by Herman Bang, Siegfried Placzek, and Max Wasbutzki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mémoires secrèts de la lieutenance générale de police. (Editions de la Raison, 1902), by Gaston Dubois-Desaulle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The female-impersonators : a sequel to the Autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld ... (The medico-legal journal, 1922), by Ralph Werther and Alfred W. Herzog (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corydon. (Gallimard, 1920), by André Gide (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forschungen über gleichgeschlechtliche Liebe. (Seitz & Schauer, 1906), by Ferdinand Karsch-Haack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ongekend leed: de physiologische ontwikkeling der geslachten in verband met de homosexualiteit. (Amsterdam, 1904), by L. S. A. M. von Römer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les perversions de l'instinct génital, étude sur l'inversion sexuelle basée sur des documents officiels (Carré, 1893), by Albert Moll, F. Pactet, and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Autorrecht an literarischen Erzeugnissen. (C.G. Lüderitz, 1873), by Lothar Seuffert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sexual inversion (Wilson & MacMillan, 1897), by Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Paragraph] 143 [i.e. Paragraph ein hundert drei und vierzig] des Preussischen Strafgesetzbuches vom 14. April 1851 und seine Aufrechterhaltung als [section symbol] 152 im Entwurfe eines Strafgesetzbuches für den Norddeutschen Bund. (M. Spohr, 1905), by C. von Kertbeny and Adolph Leonhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Memnon." Die Geschlechtsnatur des mannliebenden Urnings, eine naturwissenschaftliche Darstellung. (C. Hübscher, 1868), by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forschungen über gleichgeschlechtliche Liebe. : Erste, ethnologische Reine: Das gleichgeschlechtliche Leben der Völker. Erster Band: [Das gleichgeschlechtliche Leben der Naturvölker]. (E. Reinhardt, 1911), by Ferdinand Karsch-Haack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Onanie und Homosexualität : (die homosexuelle Neurose) (Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1917), by Wilhelm Stekel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die deutsche Wandervogelbewegung als erotisches Phänomen; ein Beitrag zur Erkenntnis der sexuellen Inversion. (B. Weise, 1914), by Hans Blüher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report on homosexuality with particular emphasis on this problem in governmental agencies. (Topeka, 1955), by Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Cooperation with Governmental (Federal) Agencies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of an androgyne (Medico-legal journal, 1918), by Earl Lind and Alfred W. Herzog (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sex in prison : revealing sex conditions in American prisons (Padell Book Co., 1951), by Joseph F. Fishman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The homosexual; a frank study of abnormal sex life among males. (Monarch Books, 1962), by Banjamin Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Is homosexuality a menace? (McBride, 1957), by Arthur Guy Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The third sex ([Facts Pub.], 1949), by Howard Norton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Amor sáfico e socrático : estudo médico-forense (Instituto de Medicina Legal de Lisboa, 1922), by Arlindo Camillo Monteiro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Berühmte Homosexuelle (J.F. Bergmann, 1910), by Albert Moll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Strange lust : the psychology of homosexuality (Amethnol Press, 1933), by A. Hesnard and John Caxton Summers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Homosexual Neurosis, by Wilhelm Stekel, trans. by James S. Van Teslaar (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bi-sexual love; the homosexual neurosis, by Wilhelm Stekel, trans. by James S. Van Teslaar (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women, by Edward Carpenter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hermaphrodisie en Uranisme (in Dutch), by Arnold Aletrino (Gutenberg ebook)

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