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Wh many strikg illtratns, Gay Life Stori will enterta, give pse for thought, and ultimately celebrate the diversy of human history. Gay Tim.
'Engagg … a betiful book, and a wele addn to what some ll “gay studi” and others simply see as a celebratn of human sexualy all s diversy'. He is the thor of The Sctn of the Mederranean, The Age of Empir and Colonialism and Homosexualy, and the edor of Gay Life and Culture: A World History. There are way more cis men than any kd women and my spir sense tects a whiff of misogyny on ocsn, wh female acquatanc and lovers of “gay” (I'd say: bi) men not mentned by name or given any pth.
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However, suffered om a certa whe-cis-gay-man bias, and tend to ignore or mimise genr variance or bisexualy those featur. ), his reluctance to engage wh the spectre of pedophilia more pth adds up to a book which implicly aggrandis some, not uniquely but notably, heo people, whether gay or not. Owned-books54 reviewsJune 18, 2022An absolutely fascatg read about people who lived liv ‘openly’ gay om ancient history to the 20th century.
Most characters are vered only a few pag and there is normally a photograph of the dividual wh their limed thor ma his selectn based on rmatn available and generally of tert at the time and chose the tle Gay Life Stori as that is what the book vers. November 11, 2016Intertg to read about the liv of gay people who fed their sexual inty when this was still a rather new ncept. Reviewed the Uned Kgdom on 27 September 2013Verified PurchaseThis llectn of short bgraphil says on proment figur gay history is a cross between a cultural survey (which the thor has already eded for Tham and Hudson, the excellent 'Gay Life and Culture: A World History') and an encyclopaedia of homosexualy, embellished by some well-chosen illtratns and photographs to acpany each entry.
It tak an eclectic, multatnal view of the subject which, for me at least, troduced many figur I had not heard of, though I nsired myself que well-rmed this area, and giv good weightg to the female as well as male experience of gay life too. The choice of subjects is perhaps a ltle arbrary: we have the ual gay ins like Wil and Diaghilev, but many of them are missg too: Alexanr the Great, for stance, or Gilgamh, or our prent day, the many wrers and artist who have traced the gay experience, such as Ge, Ban and Isherwood, who might only get passg referenc. There's also the qutn of what happened to gay people the 17th-18th centuri: were gay voic so silenced then that ltle surviv today?
GAY LIFE STORITHAM AND HUDSONPAPERBACK£12.99RELEASED 22/03/2023CATALOGUE NUMBER9780500297032USUALLY DISPATCHED 5-10 DAYS ROBERT ALDRICHGAY LIFE STORI
Reviewed the Uned Kgdom on 4 October 2012Verified PurchaseI bought this book, part bee I was drawn by s ver, and expected to fd a faiar acunt of ement gay liv.