The Rainbow History Project has the following texts in its collection.

Abbot, Sidney and Love, Barabara, Sappho Was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism, 1973.  The first book-length statement on the relationship of lesbianism to feminism.

Anderson, Jervis, Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen, 1998

Beam, Joseph, ed., In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology, 1986.  An anthology edited by Baltimore resident Joseph Beam, a close friend of DC's Essex Hemphill.

Beemyn, Brett, Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories, 1997.  Includes Beemyn’s essay on Washington, DC, A Queer Capital.

Boggan, E Carrington, Haft, Marilyn, Lister, Charles, and Rupp, John, The Rights of Gay People: An American Civil Liberties Union Handbook, 1975. A handbook surveying rights and regulations pertaining to homosexuals in the mid-Seventies.

Brinkley, Sidney, Ed., Blacklight, Dec 1980/Jan 1981.

Brinkley, Sidney, Ed., Blacklight, Sept 1982.

Brown, Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle, 1973.

Bull, Chris, ed., Witness to Revolution: The Advocate Reports on Gay and Lesbian Politics, 1967 – 1999, 1999.  Including an article by local activist David Aiken, who worked as Washington correspondent for The Advocate.

Bullough, Vern L., Before Stonewall, 2002.  Biographical essays on nearly fifty activists for gay and lesbian rights, including DC’s Franklin Kameny, Lige Clark and Jack Nichols.

Bunch, Charlotte & Myron, Nancy, Lesbianism and the Women's Movement, 1975.  Articles from The Furies, the newspaper of DC's lesbian feminist collective.

Bunch, Charlotte & Myron, Nancy, Class & Feminism, 1974.

Clendinen, Dudley & Nagourney, Adam, Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America, 1999.

Clarke, Lige and Nichols, Jack, Roommates Can't Always Be Lovers, 1974.

Clarke, Lige and Nichols, Jack, I Have More Fun with You Than Anybody, 1972.

Cory, Donald Webster (pseudonym of Edward Sagarin), The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach, 1951.  The first work asserting the normality of homosexuality.

D’Emilio, John, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970, 1983.

Downton, Joseph, Detour's Washington, DC, 1993.  With foreword by Franklin E. Kameny.

Duberman, Martin, Stonewall, 1993.

Fairchild, Betty, and Hayward, Nancy. Now That You Know:  What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality, 1979.  The basic text in parental support of gay and lesbian youth.

The Furies, 1972-73.   click here for issues available.

The Gay Blade/The Blade   click here for issues available

Gayellow Pages: Northeast Edition, #1, 1979.

Gifford, James, Dayneford’s Library: American Homosexual Writing 1900 – 1913, 1995.

Hall Carpenter Archives (Lesbian Oral History Group), Inventing Ourselves: Lesbian Life Stories, 1989.  British lesbian narratives.

Hemphill, Essex, Conditions, 1986. Poems by noted DC writer and performer on living ‘in the life’ as a gay African-American.

Hemphill, Essex, Ceremonies, 1992. Prose and poetry.

Hunter, John Francis, The Gay Insider USA, 1972.  With an account of Washington DC circa 1971 involving Kameny, Jack Nichols, Lige Clark, and Perrin Shafer.

Jay, Karla, and Young, Allen, Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation, 1972.   Basic documents of the early gay activist movement with a decided New York City inclination.

Jay, Karla, and Young Allen, Lavender Culture,  1978.  Another, later, compendium of articles by Jay and Young, focusing on gay culture rather than politics: sex, music and dance, literature, theatre, gay youth.

Johnson, Phylis A. & Keith, Michael C., Queer Airwaves: The Story of Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting, 2001.  Includes a fleeting reference to DC’s Friends radio program.

Johnston, Jill, Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution, 1973.  A major statement on the position of lesbians within the women's movement.

Kramer, Larry, Reports from the Holocaust: the Making of an AIDS Activist, 1981.

Lorde, Audre, The Cancer Journals, 1980.

Masters, William H., and JOhnson, Virginia E., Homosexuality in Perspective, 1979.  One of the basic research texts on homosexuality.

Newton, Esther, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America, 1972.

Richards, Dell, Lesbian Lists, 1990.  Exactly what it says: lists of lesbian holidays, lesbian couploes buried together, and more.

Roscoe, Will, The Zuni Man-Woman, 1991.  An account of the Zuni berdache, We’wha who lieved in DC in 1885 at the home of Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1913 N St. NW).

Sears, James T., Lonely Hunters: An Oralh History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948 – 1968, 1997.

Shilts, Randy, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 1987.

Shilts, Randy, Conduct Unbecoming:  Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military, 1993.

Stearns, Jess, The Grapevine, 1964.  An early encounter with and explanation of lesbianism.

Teal, Donn, The Gay Militants, 1971.

Tobin, Kay & Wicker, Randy, The Gay Crusaders, 1972.  Including a biography of Dr. Franklin E. Kameny.

Weinberg, Dr. George, Society and the Healthy Homosexual, 1972.

Weltge, Ralph W., The Same Sex: An Appraisal of Homosexuality, 1969.  Includes Dr. Kameny's article Gay Is Good.