Contents
Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum • David and Jonathan • Sappho • Socrates • Hadrian and Antinous • Chen Weisong
2 FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Saints Sergius and Bacchus • Aelred of Rievaulx • Michelangelo Buonarroti • Michel de Montaigne • Antonio Rocco • Benedetta Carlini • Michael Sweerts • Katherine Philips • Frederick the Great • Chevalier d’Eon
3 FOUNDING FATHERS AND MOTHERS
Walt Whitman • Edward Carpenter • André Gide • E. M. Forster • Radclyffe Hall • Christopher Isherwood
4 THE FIN-DE-SIÈCLE AND BELLE ÉPOQUE
Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen and Alessandro Panizzardi • Oscar Wilde • Wilhelm von Gloeden • Sergei Diaghilev • Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen • Karol Szymanowski
Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby • Anne Lister • Eva Gore-Booth • Sylvia Townsend Warner • Claude Cahun • Suzy Solidor • Annemarie Schwarzenbach • Carson McCullers
6 ENTANGLEMENTS OF SEX AND POLITICS
Richard Schultz • Federico García Lorca • Newton Arvin • Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim
Eugène Jansson • Magnus Enckell • Donald Friend • Alair Gomes • Bhupen Khakhar
Abu Nuwas • Constantine Cavafy • T. E. Lawrence • Yannis Tsarouchis • Ali al-Jabri
Ihara Saikaku • Nobuko Yoshiya • William Plomer • Yukio Mishima • Tamotsu Yato
John Henry Newman • Rosa Bonheur • Hubert Lyautey • Frieda Belinfante • Ronnie Kray • Yves Saint Laurent
Magnus Hirschfeld • Del Martin • Harvey Milk • Guy Hocquenghem • Simon Nkoli
12 INTERNATIONAL LIVES IN THE MODERN ERA
Maharaja of Chhatarpur • Edmund Backhouse • Claude McKay • Lionel Wendt • Xuan Dieu • Jean Sénac • Shi Pei Pu • Reinaldo Arenas