Books like American Honor Killings by David McConnell

John le Carré’s third George Smiley novel follows the former chief of Britain’s MI6 as he attempts to revive the agency, cleanse it of the mole Bill Haydon, and confront his enigmatic adversary Karla.

A novel in verse, October Mourning is a powerful tribute to Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was murdered in 1998. The author uses poetic imagination to create fictitious monologues from various points of view, including the fence where Shepard was tied to death. The novel is a memorial for readers too young to remember the tragic events of that day.

Seventeen‑year‑old Maggie Thrash spends her summer at Camp Bellflower for Girls, a historic Appalachian camp where a chance encounter sparks a forbidden love with counselor Erin, challenging the camp’s conservative environment and Maggie’s own quiet life.

A dramatic play based on interviews conducted after the murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.

In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of racial and sexual hysteria, but the case against the suspects was scant and the trial ended in a hung jury. Outraged, Thalia’s socialite mother arranged the kidnapping and murder of one of the suspects. In the spectacularly publicized trial that followed, Clarence Darrow came to Hawai’i to defend Thalia’s mother, a sorry epitaph to a noble career.It is one of the most sensational criminal cases in American history, Stannard has rendered more than a lurid tale. One hundred and fifty years of oppression came to a head in those sweltering courtrooms. In the face of overwhelming intimidation from a cabal of corrupt military leaders and businessmen, various people involved with the case—the judge, the defense team, the jurors, a newspaper editor, and the accused themselves—refused to be cowed. Their moral courage united the disparate elements of the non-white community and galvanized Hawai’i’s rapid transformation from an oppressive white-run oligarchy to the harmonic, multicultural American state it became. Honor Killing is a great true crime story worthy of Dominick Dunne—both a sensational read and an important work of social history

Neil Miller’s investigative history uncovers how a 1954 child‑murder case in Sioux City, Iowa, triggered the arrest, institutionalization, and stigmatization of 20 gay men during a period of widespread anti‑homosexual hysteria.

True‑crime account of the 1986 murders of a 15‑year‑old girl and a 3‑year‑old boy in a St. Louis suburb, and the five‑year pursuit that led to their killer’s life sentence.

A photographic journey through late‑1980s America that captures the varied lives of gay and lesbian communities, illustrating their efforts to form families, reconcile faith, and confront both racism and homophobia.

A groundbreaking book that reveals the shocking problem of anti-gay/lesbian violence.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues concerning gender and sexual nonconformity in the United States. Part One, which covers the years from the post-Civil War period to the 1980s, is a history of state efforts to discipline and punish the behavior of homosexuals and other people considered to be deviant. During this period such people could get by only at the cost of suppressing their most basic feelings and emotions. Part Two addresses contemporary issues. Although it is no longer illegal to be openly gay in America, homosexuals still suffer from state discrimination in the military and in other realms, and private discrimination and violence against gays is prevalent. William Eskridge presents a rigorously argued case for the "sexualization" of the First Amendment, showing why, for example, same-sex ceremonies and intimacy should be considered "expressive conduct" deserving the protection of the courts. The author draws on legal reasoning, sociological studies, and history to develop an effective response to the arguments made in defense of the military ban. The concluding part of the book locates the author's legal arguments within the larger currents of liberal theory and integrates them into a general stance toward freedom, gender equality, and religious pluralism.

Doug Meyer’s sociological study reveals how race, class, and gender shape the experience and perception of violence against lesbians, gay men, and transgender people, challenging the media’s focus on white, middle‑class victims.