Gay and Lesbian Travel Books

Gay travel books are a genre in themselves with many published volumes in the past ten years. But books by gay authors on the road have been written for several generations, indeed for centuries. Listed here are just a few of these books. More will be added sooner or later. (Send us your suggestions)

See also our Gay Travel Guides and Gay Travel Writers pages.

Gay and Lesbian Travel Books

• In Patagonia  by Bruce Chatwin
• Anatomy of Restlessness by Bruce Chatwin
• Gay Travels: A Literary Companion by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
• Lesbian Travels: A Literary Companion by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
• Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing by Raphael Kadushin
• Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing by Raphael Kadushin
• Gay Travels in the Muslim World (Out in the World) by Michael Luongo
• Between the Palms: A Collection of Gay Travel Erotica by Michael Theodore Luongo
• You Can Run: Gay, Glam, and Gritty Travels in South America (Out in the World) by Jesse Archer
• Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East by Brian Whitaker
• Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies by Arno Schmitt
• Spartacus International Gay Guide 2009 by Briand
• Gay Travel Literature and Guides:  by Spartacus
• Damron Men’s Travel Guide by Gina M. Gatta
• The Gay Vacation Guide: The Best Trips and How to Plan Them by Mark Chesnut
• 50 Fabulous Gay-friendly Places to Live by Gregory A. Kompes
• Naked Places, A Guide for Gay Men to Nude Recreation and Travel, 5th edition by Michael Boyd
• Frommer’s Gay and Lesbian Europe, Third Edition by Andrusia, Barbree, Mroue, and Olson
• The Rough Guide to Gay & Lesbian Australia
• How to Say ‘Fabulous!’ in 8 Different Languages: A Travel Phrase Book by Gerard Mryglot and Ted Marks
• States of Desire: Travels in Gay America by Edmund White
• Gay Tourism: Culture And Context by Kevin Markwell and Gordon Waitt
• The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2005: True Stories from Around the World by Lucy McCauley
• Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles by Thomas Glave et.al.
• Outbound: Finding a Man, Sailing an Ocean (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies, Joan Larkin and David Bergman, Series Editors) by William Storandt
• Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920 by Edith Wharton and Sarah Bird Wright
• The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600 by Mary Baine Campbell
• Queer Japan: Personal Stories of Japanese LGBT by Summerhawk, McMahill and McDonald
• The Gay Travel Guide for Tops and Bottoms by Drew Blancs

Literary Studies – Homosexuality and Culture

Gay Life and Culture – A World History by Robert Aldrich (ed)
Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton

Africa

• Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities by Roscoe and Murray
• Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective by Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio
• Africa After Gender? by Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher
• From Social Silence to Social Science Same-sex sexuality, HIV & AIDS and Gender in South Africa
  Vasu Reddy, Theo Sandfort & Laetitia Rispel (eds)

Asia

• The Sambia: Ritual, Sexuality, and Change in Papua New Guinea by Gilbert Herdt
• Sambia Sexual Culture by Gilbert Herdt
• Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Perverse Modernities) by Martin F. Manalansan IV
• Intimate Communications by Gilbert Herdt and Robert J. Stoller
• Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies by Gilbert H (Editor), and Leavitt, Stephen C (Editor) Herdt
• Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology) by Gilbert H. Herdt
• Angkor Life by Stephen O. Murray
• Pacific Homosexualities by Stephen O Murray
• Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality In Thailand by Peter A Jackson
• Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand by Peter A. Jackson and Nerida M. Cook
• Gay and Lesbian Asia: Culture, Identity, Community by Gerard Sullivan and Peter Jackson
• Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homos’ in Thailand by Sullivan and Jackson
• Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives by Gerard Sullivan and Peter Jackson
• AsiaPacific Queer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities by Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Mark McLelland and Audrey Yue
• How the Tsunami Affected the Lives of a Thai Money Boy and Two American Professors by Mark V. Rose
• The Men of Viet Nam: A Travel Guide to Gay Viet Nam by Douglas Thompson

Americas

• Gay Culture In America by Gilbert H. Herdt
• Heterogender Homosexuality in Honduras by Stephen O. Murray and Manuel Fernández-Alemany
• Latin American Male Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray
• Male Homosexuality in Central and South America by Stephen O Murray
• American Gay (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) by Stephen O. Murray

Europe

• Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent by Dan Healey
• Homosexuality in French History and Culture by Jeffery Merrick and Michael Sibalis
• Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence by Michael Rocke
• Homosexualities and French Literature: Cultural Contexts, Critical Texts by George Stambolian
• Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures by Sahar Amer
• One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love by David Halperin
• Homosexuality in Renaissance England by Alan Bray
• Homosexualities in the English Theatre: From Lyly to Wilde by John Franceschina
• Sexual Heretics Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850-1900 by Brian Reade
• The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna

Cross-Cultural

• Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History by Gilbert Herdt
• Social Theory, Homosexual Realities by Stephen O. Murray
• Global Sex by Dennis Altman
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault and Robert Hurley
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self by Michel Foucault and Robert Hurley
• Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language by William L. Leap and Tom Boellstorff