- Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994 / Elizabeth A. Armstrong. (Chicago : University of Chicago, 2002)
- Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area / Susan Stryker and Jim Van Buskirk; foreword by Armistead Maupin. (San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1996).
- Gay and Lesbian San Francisco / Dr. William Lipsky (Chicago, IL: Arcadia, 2006)
- Out in the Castro: Desire, Promise, Activism / edited by Winston Leyland. (San Francisco : Leyland Publications, 2002)
- La Société Invertie: ou, Les Gais de San Francisco / A. E. Dreuilhe. (Montreal, Quebec : Flammarion, c1979).
- San Francisco’s Castro/ Strange De Jim (Chicago, IL: Arcadia, 2003)
- Wide-Open Town: a history of Queer San Francisco to 1965/ Nan Alamilla Boyd. (Berkeley : University of California, 2003)
GLBT San Francisco: Essays in Anthologies
- "The Castro" pp.25-119. Cities on a Hill: a Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures/ Frances FitzGerald. Simon and Schuster, c1986.
- "The Catacombs: A Temple of the Butthole," by Gayle Rubin. pp.119-141 in Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice / edited by Mark Thompson. Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2001. 10th anniversary edition.
- "Cultural Identity, Sexual Liberation, and Urban Structure: The Gay Community in San Francisco," pp 138-170 in The City and the Grassroots: a Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements / Manuel Castells. University of California Press, c1983.
- "The Development of the Homosexual Bar as an Institution," by Nancy Achilles. pp 228-244 in Sexual Deviance / ed. by John H. Gagnon & William Simon. Harper & Row, 1969.
- "Elegy for the Valley of Kings: AIDS and the Leather Community in San Francisco," 1981-1996, by Gayle S. Rubin. pp. 101-144 in In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS / edited by Martin P. Levine, Peter M. Nardi, John H. Gagnon. University of Chicago Press, c1997.
- "Ethnography of the Bay Area Homosexual Scene" pp. 233-263. Homosexualities: a study of diversity among men and women / Alan P. Bell, Martin S. Weinberg. Simon and Schuster, c1978.
- "Gay Politics and Community in San Francisco Since World War II," by John D'Emilio, pp. 456-473 in Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past / edited by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr. New American Library, c1989.
- "The History of Gay Bathhouses by Allan Berube," pp. 187-220 in Policing Public Sex: Queer Poltiics and the Future of AIDS Activism / edited by Dangerous Bedfellows. (Boston, MA : South End Press, c1996).
- "'Homos Invade S.F.!' San Francisco's History as a Wide-Open Town." Nan Alamilla Boyd pp. 73-95 in Creating a Place for Ourselves : Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories / edited by Brett Beemyn. (New York : Routledge, 1997).
- "The Miracle Mile: South of Market and Gay Male Leather," 1962-1997. Gayle S. Rubin pp. 247-272 in Reclaiming San Francisco : History, Politics, Culture : a City Lights Anthology / edited by James Brook, Chris Carlsson, and Nancy J. Peters. (San Francisco : City Lights, 1998).
- "The Movement and the Subculture Converge: San Francisco During the Early 1960s" pp 176-195 in Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: the Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 / by John D'Emilio. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1983).
- "Postwar Nonconformists: Beats, Hippies, & Gays," pp. 113-123 in Neighborhoods in Transition: the Making of San Francisco's Ethnic and Nonconformist Communities / by Brian J. Godfrey. (Berkeley : University of California Press, c1988).
- "San Francisco." Les Wright pp. 164-189 in Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories Since 1600 / edited by David Higgs. (London ; New York : Routledge, 1999).
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