Sex Industry in New Orleans:

  • An Evening With Venus: Prostitution During the American Civil War by Dr. John Jackson Gaines

  • Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America by Leslie Zemeckis and Blaze Starr

  • Empire of Sin: Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle For Modern New Orleans by Gay Krist

  • Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans 1865-1920 by Alecia P Long

  • Guidebooks to Sin: The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans by Pamela D Arceneaux

  • Spectacular Wickedness: Sex Race and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans by Emily Epstein Landau

  • Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red Light District by Al Rose

  • The 'Baby Dolls': Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition by Kim Marie Vaz

  • The Last Madame: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz

Queer New Orleans History

  • In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Bar by Frank Perez

  • Let the Faggots Burn: The UpStairs Lounge Fire by Johnny Townsend

  • Men Like That: A Southern Queer History by John Howa

  • Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice by Clayton Delery

  • The Sons of Tennessee Williams, Film, Directed by Tim Wolf

General New Orleans History:

  • A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau by Carolyn Morrow Long

  • Bulbancha is Still a Place, Jeffrey Darrensbourg, Zine

  • Occupied women : gender, military occupation, and the American Civil War  by LeeAnn Whites

  • Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans by James Gill

  • The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction by Daniel Brook

  • The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N Powell

  • The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette

  • The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World  by Emily Clark

  • The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

  • The Magic of Marie Laveau: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans by Denise Alvarado and Carolyn Morrow Long

Broader History of Sexuality/Gender

  • American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era by E. Anthony Rotundo

  • Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton 

  • Caliban and the Witch by Sylvia Feddericci

  • Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II by Allan Berube and Victor Bevine

  • Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell

  • Gay New York by George Chauncey

  • Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin

  • Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock by Amy Werbel

  • Mob Queens, Podcast

  • Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott

  • Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

  • Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism by Deborah Lutz

  • Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality by Judith Giesberg

  • Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood by Cynthia Russett

  • Sultry Climates by Ian Littlewood

  • Transgender History by Susan Stryker

  • Unruly Desires: American Sailors and Homosexualities in the Age of Sail by William Benemann

  • Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

  • The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K Johnston

  • The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age by Amy Sohn

  • The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women by Scott W. Stern

Relevant US History:

  • Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist

  • Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement by Wendy L Rouse

  • Opium by John H Halpern

  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

  • The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture by Douglass Shand-Tucci

  • The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee