By B. R. Burg. In Ancient Greece and Rome, in Crusader campaigns and pirate adventures, same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. From the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War, from Achilles to Lawrence of Arabia, gays have played a crucial but often hidden role in military campaigns. Burg has recovered important documents and assembled an anthology on these often invisible gay and lesbian warriors
By Matt Cook. Cook explores the relationship between London and homosexuality during a time marked by intensification in concern about male-male relationships and also by the emergence of an embryonic homosexual rights movement. Cook combines his coverage of London’s homosexual subculture and various major and minor scandals with a detailed examination of representations in the press, science and literature.
By B. R. Burg. Historian B. R. Burg investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare. What, he asks, did these men, often on the high seas for years at a time, do for sexual fulfilment?
By James Davidson. James Davidson asks us to forget everything we thought we knew about the intimate culture of the Ancient Greeks and start again from scratch. The result is an engrossingly rich and diverse picture of Greek love which takes in bizarre Spartan sex-acts, recently discovered paintings and fragments of broken text, and throws new light on Greek civilization as a whole.
This book is Gore Vidal's visual memoir of his remarkable and famously well-lived life. In this collection of photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other selections from Vidal's vast personal archives, readers are now escorted by one of America's wittiest insiders into the Kennedys' Camelot, as well as onto the set of Ben Hur, and into the private lives of Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, and Tennessee Williams, to name just a few.
By David L. Chapman and Brett Josef Grubisic. American Hunks is a fascinating collection of images (many in full colour) depicting the muscular American male as documented in popular culture from 1860 to 1970. The book, divided into specific historic eras, includes such personalities as bodybuilder Charles Atlas; pioneer weightlifter Eugene Sandow; movie stars like Steve "Hercules" Reeves and Johnny "Tarzan" Weismuller; and publications such as the 1920s-era magazine Physical Culture and the 1950s-era comic book Mr. Muscles. It also touches on the use of masculine, homoerotic imagery...
By Mikey Walsh. Walsh's un-put-downable memoir about growing up in trailers, moving between camping sites across the country and pulling scams with his family. Fifty pages in and all romanticism is abruptly stripped away with some shocking descriptions of systematic abuse. Growing up in the shadow of a renowned gypsy prize-fighter, Walsh is subjected to daily beatings in order to toughen him up to follow in his father's footsteps. Alienated by his inability to live up to his father's expectations and the secret knowledge that he is gay he finds himself trapped in a cycle of violence and oppression.
By Tom Ambrose. Looks at gay exile through the experiences of some of the most eminent homosexual men and women in history, including artists such as thewild living Benvenuto Cellini and poets and writers such as poets such as Thomas Gray, W. H. Auden and Henry James. Some like William Beckford, Lord Byron or Oscar Wilde, had tragic experiences; others were triumphant in exile, such as the Ladies of Llangollen who became the most famous lesbians in Europe.
By Sean Brady. This important book is part of a new generation of historical research that challenges prevailing arguments for the medical and legal construction of homosexual identities in late 19th century Britain. Sean Brady demonstrates that British society could not tolerate the discussion necessary to form medical or legal concepts of "the homosexual". The development of masculinity as a social status is examined, for its influence in shaping societal attitudes towards sex and sexuality between men and fostering resistance to any kind of recognition of these phenomena.
By H. C. Cocks. Homosexuality was at the core of Victorian social and cultural history. Nameless Offences shows how the homosexual ‘closet’ was created and yet was both hidden and rejected by English sources for long periods of the 19th century. It was not just by the operation of the law and increasing police enforcement, but also by the efforts of successive governments, politicians and journalists to marginalize homosexuality in civil...
