1857 TARDIEU, Auguste Ambroise (1818 – 1879)
Étude médico-légale sur les attentats aux moeurs.
“Extrait des Annales d’hygiène publique et de médicine légale, 2e série, tome VIII." Tardieu divided his book on "sexual crimes" into three parts: the first deals with indecent exposures, the second with rape, and the…
GMN 8891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11069
1869 WESTPHAL, Carl Friedrich Otto (1833 – 1890)
Die Konträre Sexualempfindung.
The first "scientific" paper on homosexuality. In this paper the psychiatrist Westphal described two cases at length: "The first was of a young woman who from her earliest years liked to dress as a boy and engage in b…
GMN 7076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9243
1886 KRAFFT-EBING, Richard Freiherr von (1840 – 1902)
Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.
Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…
GMN 4944 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6228
1896 ELLIS, Henry Havelock (1859 – 1939); SYMONDS, John Addington (1840 – 1893); KURELLA, Hans (1858 – 1916)
Das konträre Geschlechtsgefühl von Havelock Ellis und J. A. Symonds. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe Besorgt unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Hans Kurella.
This work, translated into English as Sexual inversion in 1897, became the first English language medical textbook on homosexuality. It was published as the second volume of Ellis's Studies in the psychology of sex. D…
GMN 9007 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11186
1899 –1933 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus (1868 – 1935)
Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. Edited by Magnus Hirschfeld.
"An annual publication of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), an early LGBT rights organization founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1897. The periodical featured articles on …
GMN 10848 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13044
1904 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus (1868 – 1935)
Berlins drittes Geschlecht.
"Third sex" was Hirschfeld's provisional term for gays and lesbians. Translated into English by James J. Conway as Berlin's third sex, Berlin: Rixdorf Editions, 2017.
GMN 13379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15650
1958 SAVITSCH, Eugene de (1902 – 1959)
Homosexuality, transvestism and change of sex.
Probably the first publication to illustrate the stages of surgical transition from male to female, and to discuss the risks then involved in the operations. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 14170 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16485
1971 WOLFF, Charlotte (1897 – 1986)
Love between women.
GMN 13395 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15666
1978 BENTHAM, Jeremy (1747 – 1832); CROMPTON, Louis (1925 – 2009)
Offenses against one's self. Edited by Louis Crompton.
This is the first publication of Jeremy Bentham's essay on "Paederasty," written about 1785. Bentham suppressed the essay during his lifetime, for fear of public outrage at his views on liberalizing the laws concernin…
GMN 10209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12398
1990 DYNES, Wayne R. (1934 – ); PERCY, William Armstrong III (1933 – ); JOHANSSON, Warren (1934 – 1994); DONALDSON, Stephen (1946 – 1996)
Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Edited by Wayne R. Dynes. Associate editors: Stephen Donaldson, Warren Johansson, and William A. Percy. 2 vols.
GMN 11448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13647
1994 LAURITSEN, John (1939 – ); THORSTAD, David (1941 – )
The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).
Revised edition, 1995.
GMN 10849 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13045
1996 BLEYS, Rudi C.
The geography of perversion: Male-To-male sexual behavior outside the West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918.
"Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of …
GMN 12748 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14994
1999 TERRY, Jennifer
An American Obsession: Science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society.
GMN 8069 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10245
2003 CROMPTON, Louis (1925 – 2009)
Homosexuality and civilization.
The history of homosexuality in Europe and parts of Asia from Homer to the 18th century.
GMN 10210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12399
2003 COCKS, Harry G. (1968 – )
Nameless offences: Homosexual desire in the nineteenth century.
GMN 10710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12904
2007 GERSTNER, David A.
Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture. Edited by David. A. Gerstner.
GMN 11357 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13555
2008 WEBER, Philippe
Der Trieb zum Erzählen: Sexualpathologie und Homosexualität, 1852-1914.
GMN 9006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11185
2010 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus (1868 – 1935); MANCINI, Elena
Magnus Hirschfeld and the quest for sexual freedom. A history of the first international sexual freedom movement
GMN 13377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15648
