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• Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1993), by Jill Dolan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage from Lesbos: The Psychoanalysis of a Female Homosexual (New York: Citadel Press, c1959), by Richard C. Robertiello (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female homosexuality; a psychodynamic study of Lesbianism. (Grove Press, 1962), by Frank Samuel Caprio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study in sexual abnormalities (National Library Press, 1933), by La Forest Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female homosexuality; a psychodynamic study of Lesbianism. (Citadel Press, 1954), by Frank Samuel Caprio (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'amour lesbien : histoire, variétés, causes et origines, désordres, préservation par l'hygiène (Librairie Artistique et Médicale, in the 1900s), by Jean Fauconney (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; US access only)

• Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Lisa L. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Lisa L. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sinister Wisdom (selected issues, 1976-1996) (partial serial archives)

• Lesbian Connection (selected issues, 1974-1989) (partial serial archives)
• Amazon Quarterly (US lesbian feminist arts journal, issues online 1972-1975) (partial serial archives)
• The Furies (Washington-based lesbian/feminist monthly, 1972-1973) (partial serial archives)
• The Ladder (partial serial archives)
• Conditions (Brooklyn-based magazine by women for women about women; 1977-1990) (partial serial archives)

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

• Les Kitharèdes : traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec. (A. Lemerre, 1904), by Renée Vivien (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1994), by Teresa De Lauretis (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.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)

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

• The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Matt Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by LaMonda Horton-Stallings (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Lisa L. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• 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 (1908), by Edward Carpenter (HTML at Fordham)
• The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women (London: G. Allen and Unwin, reprinted 1921), by Edward Carpenter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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; US access only)
• They walk in shadow : a study of sexual variations, with emphasis on the ambisexual and homosexual components and our contemporary sex laws (New York : Comet Press Books, [1959], 1959), by J. D. Mercer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homosexuals today; a handbook of organizations & publications. (Publications Division of One, inc., 1956), by Inc One and Marvin Cutler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• Die Liebe Platons im Lichte der modernen Biologie : gesammelte kleinere Schriften / von Benedict Friedlaender. (B. Zack, 1909), by Benedict Friedlaender (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les homosexuels de Berlin (J. Rousset, 1908), by Magnus Hirschfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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)
• Die deutsche Wandervogelbewegung als erotisches Phänomen : ein Beitrag zur Erkenntnis der sexuellen Inversion (Druck: F. Ruhland, 1912), by Hans Blüher (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; US access only)
• "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; US access only)
• Psychologie homosexuelle ... (Delamain et Boutelleau, 1929), by A. Hesnard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• Is homosexuality a menace? (McBride, 1957), by Arthur Guy Mathews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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)
• Die verkehrte Geschlechtsempfindung, oder, die mannmännliche und weibweibliche liebe (M. Spohr, 1900), by Norbert Grabowsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Tod in Venedig : Novelle (S. Fischer, 1924), by Thomas Mann (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)
• Hermaphrodisie en Uranisme (in Dutch), by Arnold Aletrino (Gutenberg ebook)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.