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Gay Life Stories

A fascinating portrait of male lover men and women throughout time whose lives include influenced society at massive, as well as what we recognize as today’s varied gay culture. 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 romance defied the death camps of wartime Germany. With many striking illustrations, Queer Life Stories will entertain, give pause for mind, and ultimately celebrate the diversity of human history.

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  Peter Gay What does an historian's style reveal? In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great historians who were also great stylists--Peter Gay demonstrates that, style is an invaluable clue to the historian's intuition. Thus, for Peter Gay, style is the key to culture, and the "truth" of history--as it helps to define that culture--can only be fully understood through an objective and thorough analysis of all its elements. What does an historian's manner reveal? In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great histor

  
  

  Global Gay: How Gay Customs Is Changing the World

  A panoramic view of queer rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world. In Global Gay, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, customs warriors, and ordinary people are part of a movement. Martel interviews the proprietor of a `gay-friendly` café in Amman, Jordan; a Cuban-American television reporter in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; a South African jurist who worked with Nelson Mandela to enshrine homosexual rights in the country`s constitution; an American lawyer who worked on the campaign for marriage equality; an Egyptian man who fled his country after escaping a raid on a gay club; and many others. He tells us that in China, homosexuality is neither prohibited nor permitted, and that much Chinese gay being takes place on social media; that in Iran, because of the strict separation of the sexes, it seems almost easier to

  Peter Gay Gay's look for through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We explore the multiple ways in whi Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Homosexual woman and Gay Life

  Amy Gluckman, Betsy Reed Psychology Press, - Homo Economics is the first honest account of the tense relationship between gay people and the economy. This groundbreaking collection brings together a variety of voices from the worlds of journalism, protest, academia, the arts, and general policy to address issues including the recent economic history of the gay community, the community's response to its changing economic circumstances, and the risks characteristic in a narrow definition of liberation. Wyświetl podgląd książki »