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