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Gay lives

Call Number

  • 306.766 A3654 (CEN)

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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.

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