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• BOOK: ‘GAY LIV’ CHRONICL PASSN AND PERSECUTN THE LGBTQ MUNY THROUGHOUT HISTORY
• GAY LIV PAPERBACK – 16 MAY 2023
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• GAY LIV BY ROBERT ALDRICH
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BOOK: ‘GAY LIV’ CHRONICL PASSN AND PERSECUTN THE LGBTQ MUNY THROUGHOUT HISTORY

Gay Pri events are always about expect next month’s activi to have a note of brave fiance, ’s bee, after years of legal victori, LGBQT+ people face severe challeng and creased attacks. New laws are phg them, and their stori, out of librari, out of classrooms, and even out of public Liv, by Robert Aldrich (Courty of Tham & Hudson) As “Gay Liv” by Robert Aldrich prov, we’ve seen this sort of erasure tried before. Aldrich, a veteran historian, profil more than 80 gay, lbian, and trans people om antiquy to the morn age.

“Gay life stori … offer fascatg rerds of dividuals whose liv are fun, movg, spirg troublg, utnary and ocsnally exasperatg or tragic, ” he wr.

Gays, he wr, don’t “always follow the straight and narrow … There are homosexual dsters, thiev, brigands, and serial killers. ”But most of the people featured here led far more admirable Harvey Milk, the San Francis activist and pneerg polician who fought for everythg om gay rights to a pooper-soper ordance, and was assassated by a right-wg lleague 1977. Aldrich is also reful to save room for two great gay wrers, Walt Whman and Osr Whman, c.

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Perhaps that was also bee, Aldrich not, “the more nservative of his admirers refully bowdlerized sexual passag his wrg, and passed over his homosexualy as they christened streets, schools and other public stutns his memory.

Although he was married wh two young sons, the novelist and playwright had an entirely separate semi-public life as a gay man, fdg love wh rough laborers and posh aristocrats. When, 1895, the tled father of one of Wil’s lovers nounced him as a homosexual, Wil’s rponse, disastroly, was to not only lost but was charged wh sodomy, which rulted two years prison of hard labor. ”Today, wh their book bans and “don’t-say-gay” curriculum l, many people wish the LGBTQ+ muny would return to that life of month, Gay Pri marchers are sure to give their rponse.

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Gay Liv Paperback – 16 May 2023. Gay Liv giv a voice to more than eighty people om all over the world and om all walks of life. GayLiv will enterta, give pse for thought, and celebrate the diversy of human history.

Gay history book that needs to be read. 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.

An Enlighteng Browse through Gay History. Reviewed the Uned Stat on 27 June 2012Verified PurchaseI'm a gay man who only recently cid to e out of the closet his late forti.

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I'm ashamed to adm how long took me to break through all of my own prejudic agast the gay muny.

But for me, and I thk for some other closeted gay people, we hate to e out bee we have allowed the straight world's prejudic to lor our own view of gay people.

My life began to change when I me to know wonrful, supportive people the gay muny who loved and accepted me.

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"Gay Liv" is a wonrful, troductn to a wi palate of Gay men and women om throughout human history. In addn, the book giv Gay people a good reason to feel proud. The world which we live is a better, brighter, and livelier place bee of the Gay Liv scribed here!

Essential gay readg. Reviewed the Uned Stat on 27 January 2013Verified PurchaseWonrful to be able to read about all the gay people om the past, some of whom have been fotten.

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Gay Liv|Robert Aldr. 527 reviews1, 311 followersOctober 21, 2012There's almost 4:1 gay men:lbian bgraphi this llectn...

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Where dividuals have been nsired signifint the velopment of Gay sensibili (on any of a number of levels) that ntributn is duly noted.

Gays, apparently, have been, are, and prumably will ntue to be found everywhere!

Aldrich his troductn refers to ‘gay men and women’ and briefly discs the simplified termology he adopts. Increasgly the term ‘gay’ is beg more and more intified wh the male versn, and the female versn as ‘lbian’ — but here Aldrich also wish to rporate a wir nsiratn; whether all the persons clud this survey actually n be nsired as participatg actively homosexual acts is not always clear (pecially some of the more ancient texts); but same-sex sire is most fely there. While this book will not necsarily wow homosexuals, is a eful and pals way to troduce non-homosexuals to a better unrstandg of what some of the bravt homosexuals have had to put up wh om an tolerant and (let’s face ) ignorant sectn of humany, and how they tried to fd their proper place (not always succsfully, but always termedly) society.

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His approach is not one of simply tracg all known homosexual men and women om as far back as we have rerd history: there have been many books that provi that rmatn. Its purpose is not to offer a pendium of the liv of the 'greatt gays', not to provi an encyclopedic survey of the different sexual typ intified by historians, anthropologists and other specialists. It reprents, rather, a richly diverse ngregatn of figur, whose liv pot up the different personal and social experienc of homosexualy through the ag.

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Other figur - a nun, a prit, a ary officer, a crimal - were chosen to show homosexual people a variety of profsnal llgs.

Grady Harp32 reviewsAugt 1, 2018Robert Aldrich's "Gay Liv" is a fascatg view to the many facets of queer life. To beg, the volume spans lennia, reprentg gay life om 2400 BCE to 2009. As such, lettg the thor have the fal say would be ntrast to the book's ncln, Aldrich's "Gay Liv" provis a brilliant and perhaps all-enpassg (or at least as close as n be attaed) view of homosexualy human entire review has been hidn bee of spoilers.

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Queer44 reviewsJuly 5, 2019This is a wonrful book that giv mi bgraphi on some famo and not-so-famo homosexuals throughout history. It was fascatg to disver how some of the figur impacted gay life ways that are still beg felt today. Highly remend to anyone terted explorg homosexual history and those who want to know more about some lser-known but important figur.

731 reviews6 followersDecember 27, 2022While sometim the stori zig and zag around and some stori are qutnable wh their cln, ’s hard not to get wrapped up the short vigt of the liv of gays and lbians over history.