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
Gay New York
The Pink Triangle
Borrowed Time
The Naked Civil Servant
The Men with the Pink Triangle
Hidden from History
Coming Out Under Fire
Stonewall
City of Night
The Monster Show
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Out of the Past
From Reverence to Rape
The Lavender Scare
Myra Breckinridge
Between Men
Behind the Screen
Conduct Unbecoming