What to Read After The Lavender Scare
Readers who loved The Lavender Scare by David K. Johnson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Lavender Scare 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 Lavender Scare
Gay New York
Straight State
Behind the Screen
Making Gay History
God Believes in Love
Gay Revolution
The Pink Triangle
Homosexuality and Civilization
Conduct Unbecoming
Out of the Past
A queer history of the United States
Stonewall
Queer (In)justice
The Celluloid Closet
Stonewall
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
How Sex Changed
Secret Historian
The Men with the Pink Triangle
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold
The Mayor of Castro Street
Strangers
Coming Out Under Fire
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe