Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2012 as
Gay Life Stories
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Copyright © 2012 Robert Aldrich

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On the cover: Annemarie Schwarzenbach in Malans, 1938. Photo Swiss National Library, Bern.

Title page: Alair Gomes, Opus 15, Sonatina, Four Feet, no. 42, c. 1977. (Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris)

Contents page: Suzuki Harunobu, ‘The Evening Bell of the Clock’, from Eight Views of the Parlour. Woodblock print, c. 1766.