For LGBT history month gut blogger Prof Lloyd Llewellyn-Jon (Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff Universy) asks: 'Alexanr the Great or Alexanr the Gay?' before his talk this week.
Contents:
- ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?
- 19 - ALEXANR THE GAY AND THE GLORYHOLE THAT WAS GREECE
- ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?
- ALEXANR THE GREAT’S GAY LOVERS
ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?
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19 - ALEXANR THE GAY AND THE GLORYHOLE THAT WAS GREECE
Summary Wh ntemporary Wtern gay muni, Alexanr the Great is often champned as a hero and an spiratnal figure – the ultimate high-stat homosexual.
ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?
This chapter explor the var ways which he has been visualised wh the gay muny and s wir – more closeted – muny.
The darker, anti-gay, readg of Alexanr is also explored the ntext of right-wg natnalism and the ary.
ALEXANR THE GREAT’S GAY LOVERS
(1999) Somethg for the Boys: Mil Theater and Gay Culture. (1995) Cassell’s Queer Compann: A Dictnary of Lbian and Gay Life and Culture.