This Pride month, the History Faculty Library has arranged a display commemorating the history of LGBT+ communities throughout the world. This display aims to address diverse experiences throughout the LGBT+ spectrum, as well as across many different cultures and time periods. The display can be browsed in the Upper Gladstone Link of the Radcliffe Camera, in addition to the collection of e-books which can be accessed by clicking on the book cover pictures further below.
Explore the activism of black members of the LGBT+ community and their relations to the civil rights movements post-WW2 with Jennifer Dominique Jones’ book “Ambivalent affinities,” featured in the on-shelf display or read analysis about the desires between ancient women of the greek and roman worlds with Sandra Boehringer’s book on the e-book display below, plus many more.
Check out the events that are being held by Oxford University for pride by clicking here and scrolling to the second sub-section, or head to Oxford Pride to see the itinerary of events throughout Oxford and how to get involved.
![photograph of a display of 14 books along with 2 posters promoting the e-books linked further down in this article.
The books, from the top left are:
1) As good as marriage : the Anne Lister diaries, 1836-38 / [edited by] Jill Liddington.
2) Unmaking sex : the gender outlaws of nineteenth-century France / Anne E. Linton.
3)The Stonewall Riots : a documentary history / Marc Stein.
4)LGBT Victorians : sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives / Simon Joyce.
5)Unsuitable : a history of lesbian fashion / Eleanor Medhurst.
6) Ambivalent affinities : a political history of Blackness and homosexuality after World War II / Jennifer Dominique Jones.
7) Surpassing the love of men : romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present / Lillian Faderman.
8) On queer street : a social history of British homosexuality, 1895-1995 / Hugh David.
9) No bath but plenty of bubbles : an oral history of the gay liberation front, 1970-73 / Lisa Power
10) Not a passing phase : reclaiming lesbians in history 1840-1985 / Lesbian History Group
11) James VI and I and the history of homosexuality / Michael B. Young.
12) Ambiguous gender in early modern Spain and Portugal : inquisitors, doctors and the transgression of gender norms / François Soyer.
13) Same-sex sexuality in later medieval English culture / Tom Linkinen.
14) Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800 / Khaled El-Rouayheb.](https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/wp-content/uploads/sites/118/2025/06/p-1.jpg)
Accessing these e-resource materials will require a Single-Sign-On Login for Oxford University members. External readers will need to log in with their Bodleian accounts while using the Bodleian libraries network (either the Bodleian Libraries Wi-fi network or using the reader PCs within the library.)
