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.
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.
Books featured on the display above, from left to right:
Before we were trans by Kit Heyam ; In her hands by Emma Day ; Haunted Bauhaus by Elizabeth Otto ; Queer Georgians by Anthony Delaney ; A black queer history of the United States by C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost ; Lesbian intimacies and family life by Rebecca Jennings ; Histories of the transgender child by Jules Gill-Peterson ; Public faces, secret lives by Wendy L. Rouse ; Queen James by Gareth Russell ; The straight state by Margot Canaday.
Accessing the e-resource materials below 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.)
![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)
