An Incomplete List of Sources Used to Build This Tour
Books I recommend starting with are listed in bold
A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau by Carolyn Morrow Long
American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era by E. Anthony Rotundo
An Evening With Venus: Prostitution During the American Civil War by Dr. John Jackson Gaines
Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn
Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America by Leslie Zemeckis and Blaze Starr
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
Bulbancha is Still a Place, Jeffrey Darrensbourg, Zine
Caliban and the Witch by Sylvia Feddericci
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell
Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War ll by Allan Berube and Victor Bevine
Empire of Sin: Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle For Modern New Orleans by Gay Krist
Gay New York by George Chauncey
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
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
In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Bar by Frank Perez
Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin
Let the Faggots Burn: The UpStairs Lounge Fire by Johnny Townsend
Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans by James Gill
Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock by Amy Werbel
Men Like That: A Southern Queer History by John Howard
Mob Queens, Podcast
Occupied women : gender, military occupation, and the American Civil War by LeeAnn Whites
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
Opium by John H Halpern
Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice by Clayton Delery
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
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott
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
Sultry Climates by Ian Littlewood
The 'Baby Dolls': Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition by Kim Marie Vaz
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 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 Last Madame: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K Johnston
The Magic of Marie Laveau: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans by Denise Alvarado and Carolyn Morrow Long
The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age by Amy Sohn
The Sons of Tennessee Williams, Film, Directed by Tim Wolf
The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World by Emily Clark
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women by Scott W. Stern
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette
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