The History of Sexuality & Gender History Research: A Chronology

1811-1818: Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie Against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon.  NY: Arno Press, 1975. Edition belonged to Lord Meadowbanks, one of the judges, and reproduces his copious annotations on the margins of the pages. Trial; record said to have inspired Lillian Helman’s 1934 play The Children’s Hour. 

1837: M. H. E. Meier, "Paederastie," in Ersch and Gruber, eds. Encyclopedie (Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1837).

1873: John Addington Symonds, A Problem in Greek Ethics. Written and privately circulated: 1873. Ten copies printed by Symonds: 1883. Published without attribution to Symonds in Havelock Ellis's Sexual Inversion (1897). Reprinted 1908.

1881: Dr. H—. "Gynomania—A curious case of masturbation." The Medical Record. N.Y. 19:336

1882: William Hammond, "The disease of the Scythians (morbus feminarum)," American Journal of Neurology 1:339-55.

1883: John Addington Symonds, A Problem in Greek Ethics. Written and privately circulated: 1873. Ten copies printed by Symonds: 1883.

1886: Richard Burton, Terminal Essay. Appended to Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights, 1886.

1894:
Edward Carpenter. Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society (Manchester, [England], The Labour Press Society, 1914.

1894: Edward Carpenter. Sex-Love and Its Place in a Free Society. Manchester, [England], The Labour Press Societ. Second Edition. Manchester, [England], The Labour Press Society, 1914.

1894: Havelock Ellis: Man and Woman: A Study of Secondary and Tertiary Sexual Characteristics (1894; revised 1929)

1896: John Addington Symonds, A Problem in Modern Ethics Being An Inquiry Into The Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion. Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists. London: no publisher listed [privately printed by Symonds], 1896. 

1897: Havelock Ellis. Sexual Inversion. 1897.

1902: C. G. Seligman, C. G. 1902. "Sexual inversion among primitive races." Alienist and Neurologist 23: 11-15.

1904: The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti Now for the First Time Translated Into Rhymed English by John Addington Symonds. Cornell University Library. London, Smith, Elder, & Co.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons, Second Edition, 1904).

1905, July: R.W. Shufeldt, M.D., “The Medico-Legal Consideration of Perverts and Inverts,” Pacific Medical Journal 48 (July 1905): 385-393.

1905, November: William Lee Howard, M.D. "Two Souls in One Body: A Realistic But Scientific Account of a True Psychological," The Arena; Nov 1905; 24, no. 192, pp. 476-479.

1906: J. Richardson Parke, Human Sexuality: A Medico-Literary Treatise on the History and Pathology of the Sex Instinct for the Use of Physicians and Jurists. First edition 1906. Fourth revised edition 4th rev. ed. 1909. 

1908: John Addington Symonds, A Problem in Greek Ethics Being An Inquiry Into The Phenomena Of Sexual Inversion Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists. 1908.

1914: Edward Carpenter, Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk: A Study in Social Evolution. 

1918, October. Werther, Ralph--Jennie June. "The Fairie Boy. An Autobiographical Sketch." American Journal of Urology and Sexology (October 1918) v. 14, n. 10: 433-37. Two photos of author between pages 434 and 435. The American Journal was edited by William J. Robinson, M.D.

1918, November: Werther, Ralph--Jennie June. "The Girl-Boy's Suicide." American Journal of Urology and Sexology 14, n. 11 (November 1918): 495-99.

1922: Werther, Ralph - Jennie June ("Earl Lind"). The Female-Impersonators; a Sequel to the Autobiography of an Androgyne and an Account of Some of the Author's Experiences During his Six Years' Career as Instinctive Female-impersonator in New York's Underworld. Introduction and Edited by Alfred Waldemar Horzog (1866-1933), NY: Medico-Legal Journal, 1922. Photographic reprint: NY: Arno Press, 1975. 

1919, January: Werther, Ralph. Autobiography of an Androgyne. NY: Medico-Legal Press, 1918. Werther says Autobiography was published January 1919. (Female Impersonators, 3).

1964: Phyllis GrosskurthJohn Addington Symonds: A Biography. 1964.

1968. John H. Gagnon and William Simon. "Sex Talk: Public and Private." ETC. A Review of General Semantics 25.

1968, Autumn. Mary McIntosh. "The Homosexual Role." Social Problems 16, no. 2,  pp. 182-192.

1969. John H. Gagnon and William Simon. "On Psychosexual Development. David A. Goslin, ed. Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research. New York, Rand McNally.

1971: David Beres, [review] The Letters of John Addington Symonds, ed. Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. PetersPsychoanalytic Quarterly 40 (1971), pp. 151-153.

1972, June. Jonathan Ned Katz, compiler, author, Coming Out! A Documentary Play About Gay and Lesbian Life and Liberation. Produced by the New York City Gay Activists Alliance, at its rented firehouse, 99 Wooster Street, NYC. A dramatic compilation of documents on LGBTQ US history with a section by Katz.

1972, December 10: Martin Duberman,"Homosexual Literature," New York Times, December 10, 1972.

1973. John H. Gagnon and William Simon. "The Social Origins of Sexual Development. Chapter 1 in Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co. [Revised combination of "Sex Talk: Public and Private" and "On Psychosexual Development."]

1975. Jonathan Ned Katz, compiler, author, Coming Out! A Documentary Play About Gay and Lesbian Life and Liberation (Arno Press/New York Times, 1975). 

1975: Jonathan Ned Katz, ed. Homosexuality: Arno Press/New York Times. 

1975. Ken Plummer. Sexual Stigma: An Interactionist Account. London: Routledge and Kegal Paul.

1975, Autumn. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century American. Signs 1, no. 1, pp. 1-29.

1976, December: Jonathan Ned Katz. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. New York: T. Y. Crowel.

1977, Autumn:  Blanche Wiesen Cook, "Female Support Networks and Political Activism: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, and Emma Goldman," Chrysalis, no. 3 (Autumn 1977), pp. 43-61. Reprinted, Out and Out Books, 1979, pamphlet.

1978: Judith Schwarz, “Living Herstory,” Off Our Backs, May 1978. Reprinted on OutHistory.org. 

1978, March: Smith, Barbara, "Towards a Black Feminist Criticism," The Radical Teacher 7 (March 1978), pp. 20-27.

1978, Winter: Robert F. Oaks, "Things Fearful to Name": Sodomy and Buggery in Seventeenth-Century New England, Journal of Social History 12, no. 2 (Winter 1978), pp. 268-281.

1979 ?: Blanche Wiesen Cook, [review] The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me: The Autobiography of a Lesbian by Kay Van Deurs. Photos by Diana Davies. Publisher: Katy Van Deurs, Box 199, Youngsville, NY 12791, 1978. Conditions: Four, pp. 151-154.

1979:
Nancy Sahli, “Smashing: Women’s Relations Before the Fall,” Chrysalis, no. 8, 1979, pp. 17–22.

1979: Judith Schwarz, "Questionnaire on Issues in Lesbian History," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 4, n. 3.

1979, Spring-Summer: Blanche Wiesen Cook, "The Historical Denial of Lesbianism," Radical History Review, Spring-Summer 1979, pp. 60-65.

1979, Summer: Blanche Wiesen Cook, "Women Alone Stir My Imagination": Lesbianism and the Cultural Tradition, Signs 4, no. 4, pp. 718-739.
1979, Autumn: Lisa Duggan, "Lesbianism and American History: A Brief Source Review," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 4, no. 3, pp. 80-83.
1979, November: Barbara Smith, Lorrain Bethel, eds. The Black Women's Issue, Conditions 5.
1980, Summer. Adrienne Rich. "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence. Signs 5, no. 4, "Women: Sex and Sexuality," pp. 631-660.

1980, Fall: Blanche Wiesen Cook, "A Review Essay, The Life of Lorena Hickok, ER's Friend by Doris Faber (NY: Morrow, 1980).

1981: Ken Plummer, ed. The Making of the Modern Homosexual. London: Hutchinson. [Edited collection with four contributions from Plummer.]

1982, February: Judith Schwarz, Radical Feminists of Heterodoxy: Greenwich Village: 1912-1940. New Victoria Publishers. Second edition: September 1986. 

1983: Barbara Smith, ed. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Kitchen Table Press, 1983).