Books

 

Allured, Janet. Remapping Second-Wave Feminism the Long Womens Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997. <> University of Georgia Press, 2018.

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Bailey, Marlon M. Butch Queens up in Pumps. Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit. University of Michigan Press, 2013.

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Butler, Judith. Imitation and Gender Insubordination. 1991.

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Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Castiglia, C., and C. Reed. If Memory Serves: Gay Men, Aids, and the Promise of the Queer Past. University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

 

Cixous Hélène. Laugh of the Medusa.

 

Delery-Edwards, Clayton. The Up Stairs Lounge Arson Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014.

 

Downs, Jim. Stand by Me the Forgotten History of Gay Liberation. The University of Georgia Press, 2020.

 

Echols, Alice. Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. W.W. Norton, 2011.

 

EDELMAN, Lee. Homographesis. Routledge, 1994.

 

Fieseler, Robert W. Tinderbox: the Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

 

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume I: an Introduction. Random House, 1990.

 

Hallas, Roger. Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image. Duke University Press, 2009.

 

Howard, John. Carryin on in the Lesbian and Gay South. New York U.P., 1998.

 

Howard, John. Men like That a Southern Queer History. University of Chicago Press, 2001.

 

Inrig, Stephen. North Carolina & the Problem of AIDS: Advocacy, Politics, & Race in the South. University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

 

Intimate Matters: a History of Sexuality in America. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

 

Irigaray, Luce. Speculum of the Other Woman. Cornell Univ. Press, 2010.

 

Johnson, David K. The Lavender Scare: Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Civil Service, 1945-1975. 2000.

 

Johnson, E. Patrick., et al. Blacktino Queer Performance. Duke University Press, 2016.

 

Kepner, Jim. Rough News, Daring Views: 1950s Pioneer Gay Press Journalism. Haworth, 1998.

 

Lawrence, Tim. Love Saves the Day: a History of American Dance Music Culture ; 1970-1979. Duke Univ. Press, 2006.

 

Lawrence, Tim. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983. Duke University Press, 2016.

 

Long, Alecia P. "The Great Southern Babylon": Sexuality, Race, and Reform in New Orleans, 1865-1920. 2001.

 

Mackenzie, Sonja. Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic. 2014.

 

Morley, Paul. Grace Jones: Ill Never Write My Memoirs. Gallery Books, 2015.

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Mulvey, Laura, and Rajinder Dudrah. Visual and Other Pleasures. Routledge, 1989.

 

Mulvey, Laura. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. 1999.

 

Muñoz José E. Disidentifications. 1994.

 

Musser, Amber Jamilla. Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance. New York University Press, 2018.

 

Muñoz, José Esteban, et al. Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York University Press, 2019.

 

Newton, Esther. Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America ;Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001.

 

Perez, Frank, and Jeffrey Palmquist. In Exile: the History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar. LL-Publications, 2012.

 

Perez, Frank, and Jeffrey Palmquist. My Gay New Orleans: 28 Personal Reminiscences on LGBT Life in New Orleans. LL-Publication, 2016.

 

Royster, Francesca T. Sounding like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era. University of Michigan Press, 2013.

 

Sears, James T. Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South. Rutgers University Press, 2001.

 

Sedgwick, Eve. Epistemology of the Closet. University of California Press, 2008.

 

Smith, Howard Philips. Unveiling the Muse: the Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans. University Press of Mississippi, 2017.

 

Smith, Howard Philips, and Frank Perez. Southern Decadence in New Orleans. Louisiana State University Press, 2018.

 

Townsend, Johnny. Let the Faggots Burn: the Upstairs Lounge Fire. BookLocker.com, Inc, 2011.​

 

Oral Histories

 

Altman, Lisa. “Lisa Altman: Gender Performance During AIDS in New Orleans.” By Emily Pauly, 2021-02-21. “LSU Oral History Archives”.

 

Foxx, Teryl Lynn. “Teryl Lynn Foxx: Gender Performance During AIDS in New Orleans.” By Emily Pauly, 2021-02-08. “LSU Oral History Archives”.

 

Lee, Stephanie. “Stephanie Lee: Gender Performance During AIDS in New Orleans.” By Emily Pauly, 2021-02-02. “LSU Oral History Archives”.

 

Severio, Arthur. “Arthur Severio: Gender Performance During AIDS in New Orleans.” By Emily Pauly, 2021-02-09. “LSU Oral History Archives”.

 

Essays

 

Jeffrey Bennett & Isaac West (2009) “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”: AIDS, Armorettes, and the Tactical Repertoires of Drag,

Southern Communication Journal, 74:3, 300-313, DOI: 10.1080/10417940903060914

 

Poucher, Judith G. “The Johns Committee: A Historiographic Essay.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 93, no. 1, 2014, pp. 74–83. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43487655. Accessed 26 May 2021.

 

Cohen, Cathy J. “Punks, Bulldaggers, And Welfare Queens:” Sexual Identities, Queer Politics, 1997, doi:10.2307/j.ctv19fvxz3.12.

 

Graves, Karen. “Presidential Address: Political Pawns in an Educational Endgame: Reflections on Bryant, Briggs, and Some Twentieth-Century School Questions.” History of Education Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1–20., doi:10.1111/hoeq.12000.

 

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Impact Magazine

 

Horner, Tom. "Fifty Reasons Not to Have Gay Sex Tonight." Impact, April 1983: 22.

 

"Trial and Triumph of a P.W.A.: An Interview with Skip Kibodeaux." Impact, August 9, 1985: 4, 6, 8.

 

"Update: Skip Kibodeaux." Impact, September 6, 1985: 4.

 

"AIDS Research Form Negotiated." Impact, October 5, 1984: 1.

 

 "AIDS Task Force Meets." Impact, June 14, 1985: 1.

 

"New Orleans AIDS Task Force Future Plans & Present Actions." Impact, March 2, 1984: 32.

 

"NO/AIDS Task Force: An Update." Impact, February 3, 1983: 1-2.

 

"The AAPHR Statement on AIDS and Healthful Male Sexual Activity." Impact, May 1983: 6.

 

"Local Gay Community Views on AIDS." Impact, February 17, 1984: 1-2.​

 

Videos

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crashcourse. YouTube, YouTube, 13 Nov. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=CquRz_cceH8&t=441s.

 

thephilosophytube. YouTube, YouTube, 29 Apr. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=seUVb7gbrTY.

 

LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana. YouTube, YouTube, 30 June 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S8iucG34pU.

Films

 

Upstairs Inferno. Directed by Robert Camina, 2015.

 

The Upstairs Lounge Fire. Royd Angerson, 2013.

 

The Sons of Tennessee Williams. Tim Wolff, 2010.

 

Theses

 

​Bartlett, Thomasine Marion. “Vintage Drag: Female Impersonators Performing Resistance in Cold War New Orleans.”

 

Byrd, Robert D. “When the Pretending Stopped?: AIDS Coverage in New Orleans Mainstream, Gay, and Alternative Presses from 1981-1991.”

 

David, Bryan M. “‘The Only Safe Closet Is the Voting Booth’: the Gay Rights Movement in Louisiana.”

 

Davis, Thomas B. “Perceptions and Experiences of Growing up Gay in Rural Louisiana: a Reflexive Ethnography of Six Gay Men.”

 

Davis, Thomas B. “Perceptions and Experiences of Growing up Gay in Rural Louisiana: a Reflexive Ethnography of Six Gay Men.”

 

Griffin, Gareth F. “Flames of Hate: the New Orleans Upstairs Lounge Fire, 24 June 1973.”

 

Knopp, Lawrence M. “Gentrification and Gay Community Development in a New Orleans Neighborhood.”

 

Kulkin, Heidi S. “A Qualitative Retrospective Study of Lesbian Youth: The Journey toward the Resilient Self.”  Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University, 2001.

 

Manuel, Daniel C. II. “‘We Are Able to Find Pride and Dignity in Being Gay’: Culture, Resistance, and Development of a Visible Gay Community in Lafayette, Louisiana, 1968-1989.”

 

Olsson, Caroline. “Not All That Easy: Survival Strategies in Lesbian Bar Life in New Orleans, 1950-1970.”

 

OPry, Rachel. “Louisiana Social Workers: a Study on Attitudes toward LGBT Youth.” 2012.

 

Prechter, Ryan. “Gay New Orleans: A History.” Thesis / Dissertation ETD, 2017.

 

Stuart, Mary Elaine. “An Examination of Tolerance in New Orleans: Voter Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gays.”  M.A. thesis, University of New Orleans, 1992.

 

Thompson, Jelisa, and Andrew P. Haley. “You Make Me Feel: a Study of the Gay Rights Movement in New Orleans.” 2011.

 

Websites

 

“Defining LGBTQ.” The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, gaycenter.org/about/lgbtq/#queer.

 

“LGBTQIA Resource Center Glossary.” LGBTQIA Resource Center, UC Davis, 14 Jan. 2020, lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/educated/glossary.

 

Parenthood, Planned. “What Does Queer Mean?” Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood, www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/teens/sexual-orientation/what-does-queer-mean.

 

Parenthood, Planned. “What Causes Sexual Orientation?” Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood, www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/sexual-orientation/sexual-orientation/what-causes-sexual-orientation.