Published Books
My Butch Career: a Memoir
Author, 2018
Margaret Mead Made me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas
Author, 2000
Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town
Author, 1993
Womenfriends
Co-author with Shirley Walton, 1976
Amazon Expedition: a Lesbian Feminist Anthology
Co-Editor, 1973
Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America
Author, 1972
Selected Articles
The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman in Signs (1984)
Academe's Homophobia: It Damages Careers and Ruins Lives in The Chronicle of Higher Education (1987)
My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology (1993)
’Dick(less) Tracy’ and the Homecoming Queen: Lesbian Power and Representation in Gay Male Cherry Grove in Inventing Lesbian Cultures (Ellen Lewin, editor, 1996)
Dirty Dancing belongs in the lesbian rom-com canon: Esther Newton Makes an Important Case excerpt from My Butch Career in LITHUB