What to Read After The Mayor of Castro Street
Readers who loved The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Mayor of Castro Street is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Mayor of Castro Street
The Celluloid Closet
Becoming a man
Borrowed Time
Christopher and His Kind
Stonewall
The meaning of Matthew
The Pink Triangle
The Naked Civil Servant
The Men with the Pink Triangle
Coming Out Under Fire
Prayers for Bobby
Gay New York
Making Gay History
Tales of the City
Homosexuality and Civilization
Out of the Past
Strangers
The Lavender Scare
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Faggots
Dancer from the Dance
The Lost Language of Cranes
A Boy's Own Story
This Side of Paradise