A revealing history of one of the world's oldest and most persistent prejudices begins with the Greeks and winds its way through the biblical world, Elizabethan poetry, the Victorian novel, the French Revolution, and the Moral Majority to land in the present, tracing attitudes toward homosexuality through the centuries. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Traces the thread of gay literature throughout Western tradition through the writings of such authors as Plato, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Wilde, Proust, and Whitman (view table of contents)

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