Books like The Wilde century by Alan Sinfield

Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In her preface to this updated edition Sedgwick places the book both personally and historically, looking specifically at the horror of the first wave of the AIDS epidemic and its influence on the text.

Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece examines how institutionalized pederastic relationships shaped education, citizenship, and the rise of Greek culture, arguing the practice began after 650 B.C. to address class overpopulation and foster elite development.

Walter L. Williams explores the historic and contemporary roles of Two‑Spirit and other gender‑variant peoples among Native American societies, examining social status, customs, and the impact of European attitudes on sexual diversity.

A scholarly study of love, sex, and gender in ancient Greece, revealing a distinct set of attitudes, behaviors, institutions, and social practices surrounding male homosexuality.

In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earlier formulations like "sexual inversion" and "sodomy"? What part does literature play in the development of such categories, or in a culture's resistance to them? And what are the implications for the creation and maintenance of the presumed "natural" male heterosexual subject? How has male heterosexual subjectivity been established as a bulwark against the attractions of a homosexual desire that is repeatedly incited by the very culture that condemns it? Craft examines the discourses of nineteenth-century psychiatry and sexology; some of Freud's central writings; and Tennyson's In Memoriam, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Stoker's Dracula, and Lawrence's Women In Love.

David F. Greenberg traces the historical construction of male homosexuality from ancient civilizations through the Middle Ages to modern times, examining cultural, religious, and artistic attitudes that have shaped societal norms.