“The nineteenth century had been a golden age for all those people understood variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals. Well before Stonewall and Gay Pride, there was clearly this kind of thing as homosexual tradition, plus it ended up being recognized throughout European countries and America. Graham Robb, brilliant biographer of Balzac, Hugo, and Rimbaud, examines exactly just how homosexuals had been addressed by culture and discovers an account of astonishing tolerance. He defines the everyday lives of homosexual women and men: how they discovered their sex and accepted or disguised it; the way they arrived; the way they made contact with like minded people. ”
The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark reputation for Gay lifetime in the us by Charles Kaiser
“New York occasions Notable Book of the season and champion of a Lambda Literary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a landmark saga of challenge and triumph which was immediately thought to be the absolute most respected and significant work of the sort. Nastavi čitati “Strangers: Homosexual appreciate into the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb”