Gay Life Stories

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A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today’s varied gay culture

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ISBN: 9780500292310 Category:

Robert Aldrich

Description

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.

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Weight 487 g
Dimensions 13.1 x 19.7 cm
Publisher name Thames and Hudson Ltd
Publication date 1 February 2016
Number of pages 304
Format Paperback / softback
Dimensions 13.1 x 19.7 cm
Weight 487 g

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Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Seduction of the Mediterranean, The Age of Empires and Colonialism and Homosexuality, and the editor of Gay Life and Culture: A World History.

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