Books

An asterisk (*) indicates an entry that includes an image of a book cover.

Design, general

• Behind the Zines: Self-Publishing Culture, Sonja Commentz
• Fanzines, Teal Triggs

Design, typography

• Letraset and Stencil Cutting, Mark Batty et al.
• Letraset: The DIY Typography Revolution, eds. Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy
• Queer × Design, Andy Campbell (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2019)

Illustration and photography

• Adventure Time, Stephen (Etienne/Dom Orejudos), 1981
• AllTogether: A group exhibition from the collection of Tom of Finland Foundation, ed. Annabel Fernandes (Tom of Finland Foundation, The Community, Diesel, 2022)
• American Photography of the Male Nude 1940–1970: Vol. VII, Bob Mizer/Athletic Model Guild
• AMG 1000 Model Directory, Dian Hanson
• Band of Bikers, Scott Zieher
• Boys Boys Boys, Ghislain Pascal, ed. (teNeues/Mendo, 2020)
• Brave: Men and Fetish, ed. Stephan Niederwieser
• By the Skin of My Teeth, Steven Harwick [see Bound Leather]
• California Boys, Mel Roberts
• Circus of Books, Billy Miller, ed. (Straight to Hell Editions)
• City of Wounded Boys & Sexual Warriors, Mark I. Chester
• Cock,Paper, Scissors, David Evans Frantz, Lucas Hilderbrand, Kayleigh Perkov, eds. (ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archies at USC Libraries, 2016)
• Diary of a Thought Criminal, Mark I. Chester
• Fotografie, 1996, Marco Silombria
• James Bidgood, Bruce Benderson
• Jimmy DeSana: Submission, Drew Sawyer (Brooklyn Museum, DelMonico Books, 2022)
• Leonard Fink Coming Out: Photographs of Gay Liberation and the New York Waterfont, Jonathan Weinberg, Richard C. Wandel, Thomas Schoenberger
• The Male Nude, David Leddick
• Male Physique Omnibus, (WWMC)
• The Official Cockettes Paper Doll Book, John Flowers and Clay Geerdes (Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1971)
• Photographs: Together & Alone, Karhlheinz Weinberger; Ben Estes, ed.
• Pictures & Words, Scott Ewald (Straight to Hell Editions)
• The Piers, Alvin Baltrop
• Swiss Rebels, Karlheinz Weinberger
• Tom House: Tom of Finland in Los Angeles, Michael Reynolds
• Tom of Finland: retrospective, Tom of Finland, 1988
• Tom of Finland: retrospective II, Tom of Finland, 1991

Queer culture and history

• Bad Gays: A Homosexual History, Huw Lemmey, Ben Miller (Verso, 2022)
• Beefcake, F. Valentine Hooven, III
• The Beginner’s Guide to Cruising (reprint)
• Berlin von Hinten (Bruno Gmünder Verlag, August 1985)
• The Black Leather Jacket, Mick Farren (Abbeville Press, 1985)
• Bob's World, Dian Hanson
• Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement, David K. Johnson
• Chapters from an Autobiography, Samuel M. Steward (Grey Fox Press, 1980)
• The Complete Reprint of Physique Pictorial (Taschen, 1997)
• The Complete Kake Comics, Tom of Finland, ed. Dian Hansen
• The Deviant’s War, Eric Cervini (Picador, 2021)
• Don We Now Our Gay Apparel, Shaun Cole (Berg, 2000)
• Dressing for Pleasure: The Best of AtomAge 1972–1980, Jonny Trunk
• The Everyday Experiment: Sampling the Design, the Queer and the Politics in the Everyday, Andrew Slatter, ed.
• Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen: Men in Community Queering the Masculine, Peter Hennen
• Fantabulosa: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language,. Paul Baker (Reaction Books Ltd, 2019)
• Gay Pioneers: How Drummer Shaped Gay Popular Culture, 1965–1999, Jack Fritscher
• Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer, Jack Fritscher
• Gay Semiotics: a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men, Hal Fischer (Cherry and Martin, 2015)
• Halsted Plays Himself (Expanded Edition), William E. Jones (Semiotext(e), 2011, 2022)
• Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall, Thomas Waugh (Columbia University Press, 1996)
• Heavy Traffic, ed. Stephan Niederwieser
• Homoculture, vol. one, ed. Rupert Mellor
• Kink Is, ed. Race Bannon, Patrick Davis, Jörg Fockele, Silke Niggemeier, Adam Ouderkirk, Beatrice Stonebanks (Unbound Edition Press, 2024)
• Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice, Mark Thompson, Dorothy Allison
• Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow, Tracy Baim, Owen Keehnen
• The Leatherman's Handbook, Larry Townsend
• The Leatherman's Handbook II, Larry Townsend
• Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly, ed. Sam Ashby (SPBH Editions, 2024)
• More Heavy Traffic, ed. Mischa Gawronski
• Mr. Madam, Kenneth Marlowe
• Physique: The Life of John S Barrington, Rupert Smith (Serpent’s Tail, 1997)
• Queer Between the Covers, eds., Leila Kassir and Richard Espley (University of London Press, 2021)
• Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day, Peter Ackroyd
• Queer Print in Europe, eds., Glynn Davis and Laura Guy (Bloomsbury, 2022)
• Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places & Stories, eds., Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell (RIBA Publishing, 2022)
• Queer Zines, eds. AA Bronson and Phillip Aarons
• Queer Zines 2, eds. AA Bronson and Phillip Aarons
• Safer Sexy, Peter Tatchell
• Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, Justin Spring
• Sexplorers: the guide to doing it on the road, edited by Scott O'Hara
• Sir Gay, Ronald Wright (Revelation Press, 2012)
• Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Representation, Earl Jackson, Jr. (Indiana University Press, 1995)
• Tom of Finland: His Life and Times, F. Valentine Hooven III
• Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America", Rodger Streitmatter (Faber and Faber, 1995)
• Urban Aboriginals: A Celebration of Leathersexuality, Geoff Mains

Queer erotica, fiction, and novelty

• Ask Ol’ Buddy, David Griffon (Surrey House,1973)
• ‘’The Boy Peddler’’, Patrick Doyle (Greenleaf Classics, 1973)
• The Butch Manual, Clark Henley (New American Library, 1982)
• Cockfighters, Rich Cummings (Surrey House, 1973)
• A Crack in the Wall, Classics of the Homosexual Underground (Guild Press, 1969)
• Cruising, Gerald Walker (Fawcett Crest, with permission of Stein and Day, 1970)
• East Ardmore, Classics of the Homosexual Underground (Guild Press, date unknown)
• Gay Talk: A (sometimes outrageous) dictionary of gay slang, Bruce Rodgers (Paragon Books, 1972)
• Hard Corps: Studies in Leather & Sadomasochism, Text by Michael Grumley, Photogaphs by Ed Gallucci (E.P. Dutton, 1977)
• His Lover, author unknown (Hot Rod, 1992)
• Mister Benson, John Preston (Alternate Publishing, 1980)
• One Man's Meat, Classics of the Homosexual Underground (Guild Press, 1969)
• Run No More, Larry Townsend (1972)*
• The Story of ‘O’, Robert Payne (1977)
• $tud, Phil Andros (Guild Press, 1966)
• Three Bulls Meet the Rubbermaster part 1 and part 2, RFM (RFM Products, 1966)*
• Toy, vol. 1: Boots and Breeches (Gay Pubs, 1988)
• Toy, vol. 2: The Name of the Game (Gay Pubs, 1989)
• Toy, vol. 3: Lust in Leather (Gay Pubs, 1989)