This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from all walks of life. It includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, activists and artists. Alongside such celebrated figures as Michelangelo, Frederick the Great and Harvey Milk are lesser-known but no less surprising individuals: Dong Xian and the Chinese emperor Ai, whose passion flourished in the 1st century BC; the unfortunate Robert De Péronne, first to be burned at the stake for sodomy; Katharine Philips, writing proto-lesbian poetry in seventeenth-century England; and 'Aimee' and 'Jaguar', whose love defied the death camps of wartime Germany. With many striking illustrations, Gay Life Stories will entertain, give pause for thought, and ultimately celebrate the diversity of human history.
- 336 pages
- English
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Gay Life Stories
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Other Titles of Interest
- Contents
- Preface to the New Edition
- Introduction
- 1. Ancient Ancestors
- 2. From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
- 3. Founding Fathers and Mothers
- 4. The Fin-De-Siècle and Belle Époque
- Plates Section One
- 5. Women Who Loved Women
- 6. Entanglements of Sex and Politics
- 7. Visions of Male Beauty
- 8. Love in the Levant
- 9. Japonisme
- 10. Diverse Callings
- Plates Section Two
- 11. Radicals and Activists
- 12. International Lives in the Modern Era
- Bibliography
- Sources of Illustrations
- Index
- Copyright
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