Based on my look at “Gays passing as straight”, I offer the following bibliography. It is by no means complete, and I intend to continue my search and update it in the future.


Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: on the Discursive Limits of “Sex”. New York: Routledge, 1993.
---. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Duberman, Martin. Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey. New York: Plum, 1992

Hooker, Evelyn. “The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual,” Journal of Projective Techniques 21 (1957): 18-31.

Humphreys, Laud. Tearoom trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places. Hawthorne, New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1975.

Katz, Jonathan Ned. The Invention of Heterosexuality. New York: Plume,1996.

Kinsey, A. C.;Pomeroy, W. B.; & Martin, C. E.. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1948.

Kroeger, Brooke. Passing: When People Can’t be Who They Are. Cambridge: Perseus Books Group, 2003.

Savin-Williams, Ritch C. & Kenneth M. Cohen (eds.). The Lives of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996.

Roberts, Tara & Harris, E. Lynn, as told to Asha Bandele. “Passing for straight: brothers who secretly have sex with men explain the attraction plus, women talk about the price of loving a man on the down low” Essence Magazine, July 2004. In Look Smart, Find Articles on line, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1264/is_3_35/ai_n6100394. Saturday, March 10, 2007, 11:17 AM EST.

Tobias, Andrew. Psdnym., John Reid. The Best Little Boy in the World. New York: Ballantine, 1973.

Troiden, Richard R. “Self, Self-concept, identity, and homosexual identity: Constructs in need of definition and differentiation.” Journal of Homosexuality. 10 (1984-85) 97-109.