Books like The Temperamentals by Jon Marans

A two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner, exploring themes of AIDS, religion, and modern America through the lens of a gay romance story and the lives of gay and lesbian Mormons.

An anthology of pioneering scholarship that uncovers the histories of gay and lesbian lives across diverse cultures and eras—from ancient Athens to post–World War II San Francisco—examining identity, community, and resistance.

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

A 1968 American drama exploring interpersonal dynamics among gay men, staged by Theatre Four.

In 1969, police raids on New York’s Stonewall Inn sparked the riots that ignited the modern LGBTQ rights movement, reshaping society’s view of gay life.

Tom at the Farm follows grief-stricken ad executive Tom as he discovers his deceased partner’s secrets while navigating a dysfunctional rural family and confronting the tensions between truth and deception in a Canadian drama about gay love.

A riveting narrative of the pivotal moment that changed the face of LGBTQ history, 50 years after the Stonewall riots.

One-man play by Doug Wright that dramatizes the life of transvestite antiques dealer Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived Nazi and Communist Germany while living openly as a gay drag queen.

A satirical drama that exposes how public indifference to AIDS stems from hypocrisy among powerful leaders, many of whom conceal their homosexuality or live unconventional lives.

A tender collection of American lesbian dramas that follows two aging women as they humorously reflect on the joys and challenges of love with other women. A touching mix of laughter, memory, romance and insight.

Before Stonewall traces the early, pre‑1969 struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights in the United States through concise biographies of key activists such as Harry Hay, Del Martin, and Frank Kameny.

Bent is a powerful American drama by Martin Sherman that tells the story of two gay inmates in Dachau, whose love for one another becomes a quiet rebellion against the cruelty of the Nazi regime.

Coming Out! is a 1972 documentary play that explores gay and lesbian life and the gay liberation movement, produced by the New York Gay Activists Alliance in Soho's firehouse and directed by David Roggensack.

Since the June 1969 uprising at New York's Stonewall Inn, the very word "Stonewall" has become etched in the American psyche as a synonym for "liberation." Stonewall proved a cataclysmic marker in the lives of gay men and lesbians: it was the point after which gay people were no longer content to live in fearful silence as their most basic rights were trampled on or ignored. Stonewall happened because homosexuals of all races revolted against an act of official oppression. It was indeed a beginning, but it was also the culmination of a long struggle against the tyranny of socially regulated and defined speech about homosexuality. In this insightful and engaging analysis, Byrne R. S. Fone maps out one very significant road to Stonewall - the literary course of male homoerotic desire and the homophobia that has made so much of what homosexuals have written so passionate and moving. Most of the texts Fone analyzes presume that sexuality is the central aspect of identity. Whereas gay literature since 1969 has been a vocal and supporting partner to the activism that has characterized the movement for lesbian and gay rights, before 1969 there were few political initiatives and only a handful of organized groups: the text was dominant.