Lgbt ww2 books

Titles are approximately chronological within time periods.  Note: This list includes Historical Fantasy but not Historical Romance or YA. 

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Female Protagonists

Antiquity

  • Alcestis by Katharine Beutner
  • The Palace of Eros by Caro de Robertis
  • Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
  • The Aven Cycle by Cass Morris

Medieval/Middle Ages

Pre-Columbian

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

  • The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (, Jamaica and London)
  • Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller (, NE US)
  • Bittersweetby Nevada Barr (US)
  • Devotion by Hannah Kent (, Prussia)
  • The Companion by Kim Taylor Blakemore (, New Hampshire)
  • The Prophetsby Robert Jones, Jr. (pre-Civil War, Profound US South)
  • Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis (, Paris)
  • Frog Music by Emma Donoghue (, San Francisco)
  • Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens (, Midwest US)
  • The Best BadThings and Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco (, Washington Territory)
  • Clio Rising by Paula Martinac (, NYC)
  • The Liar&#

    Luke Turner’s New Guide Explores Sex and Sexuality in World War Two

    TextTony Wilkes

    In March , Commando Micky Burn looked over his troop and had a “hideous shock”. He’d briefly caught sight of “Bill Gibson’s face”, he wrote in his memoir, and suddenly “knew he’d be killed”. The day before Operation Chariot, the most dangerous raid of the Second World War, Bill Gibson wrote to his father: “I can only wish that by laying down my life the generations to come might in some way retain us, and also benefit by what we have done.” Burn’s premonition was a true one. He was only 20 years old.

    It’s the way we’ve remembered, and what we forget, that Luke Turner investigates in his fresh book Men At War. Following his acclaimed debut memoir Out of the Woods (), Turner strips away the cardboard clichés of those who served in the Second World War to discover who these men actually were. What follows is a complex portrait of the adj and extraordinary, of cross-dressing soldiers and queer sexualities; of affairs in blacked-out hotel rooms; and how, as Quentin Crisp put it, London

    Media focused on World War II often focuses on the actual war years of , exploring in broad strokes the horrors of Nazi Germany at the zenith of its murderous regime. Less common are the interwar years, with the delayed burn, creeping terror of rising fascism, the people victimised in its stir, and the complicity of the populace along the way.

    Liebestrasse &#; literally “Love Street” &#; is one of those rarer tales, focusing on the romance between American Samuel and German Philip in the last days of the Weimar Republic. The graphic novel explores how the two men fall in love, navigating both their cultural differences and the Bohemian underworld of Berlin’s s art scene, and how the rise of the Nazis puts them and everyone they care about in danger.

    It will not surprise anyone with a modicum of historical knowledge that Liebestrasse does not have a content ending.

    Published digitally in , and now collected in produce by Dark Horse, Liebestrasse &#; written by Greg Lockard, with art by Tim Fish, colours by Hector Barros, and lettering by Lucas Gattoni &#; reads with the authen

    WWII-era queer and trans history inspired debut novel

    The Allied powers freed German concentration camps in — except for queer and trans prisoners. Survivors with pink or black triangles on their uniforms suffered the injustice of further imprisonment because the Allies upheld the Nazis’ harsher anti-LGBTQ+ laws. Author, educator and former Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow Milo Todd couldn’t accept this piece of history when he learned about it in But after he confirmed the truth and dove deeper into explore, this period of queer and trans history became the foundation for Todd’s debut novel “The Lilac People.”

    Told in dual timelines, “The Lilac People” is a story about the survival, resilience and enduring expect of two trans men and one queer woman before and after World War II. The novel opens two weeks after Germany surrendered with protagonist Bertie and his life partner Sofie finding Karl, an emaciated man who escaped the Dachau concentration camp fleeing from the Allies — not the Nazis. This news is an obscene betrayal of the country’s hard-won prewar LGBTQ+ rights.