What to Read After The Celluloid Closet
Readers who loved The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Celluloid Closet 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 Celluloid Closet
The Mayor of Castro Street
Faggots
Christopher and his kind
Becoming a man
And the Band Played on
The pink triangle
Gay New York
Borrowed Time
The Naked Civil Servant
Männer mit dem rosa Winkel
Coming Out Under Fire
Hidden from History
Stonewall
City of night
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
Queen's Throat
The Lavender Scare
A queer history of the United States
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Homosexuality and Civilization
The monster show
Myra Breckinridge
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
From reverence to rape