Book
Gay lives
Publication Information
New York : Thames & Hudson, c2012.
Physical Description
304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary
"A comprehensive biographical survey from ancient Chinese courtiers to pioneers of gay liberation in the twenty-first century, from the unknowable relationships of the distant past to the frankest affirmations of modern sexual identity"--Publisher description.
Contents
- Ancient ancestors
- From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
- Founding fathers and mothers
- The fin-de-siècle and Belle Époque
- Women who loved women
- Entanglements of sex and politics
- Visions of male beauty
- Love in the Levant
- Japonisme
- Diverse callings
- Radicals and activists
- International lives in the modern era.