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A
Abbott, Sidney 23
Abu Nuwas 182–85, 282
Ackerley, J. R. 260–63
Ackland, Valentine 130–31, 133–34
Adelswärd-Fersen, Jacques d’ 107, 113–16
Aelred 11, 41–43
Ai, Emperor 34, 35
Aladrén, Emilio 158
al-Amin 184
al-Aswany, Alaa 199
Alcibiades 26–27, 68, 115, 212
Aleixandre, Vicente 156, 159
Algarotti, Francesco 68
al-Jabri, Ali 197–99
Allington, Lord 118
Almodóvar, Pedro 159
al-Tifashi, Ahmad 184–85
Amies, Sir Hardy 239
Andreadis, Harriette 64–65
Antinous 27–31, 116, 118, 154, 155, 172, 214
Arenas, Reinaldo 286–89
Arondeus, Willem 232
Arunachalam, Ponnabalam 79–80
Arvin, Newton 150, 159–62
Asher, Michael 192
Athanasius, St 30
Aubrey, Mary 64
Auden, W. H. 92, 95, 105
B
Bacchus, St 36–39
Bachardy, Don 95
Backhouse, Edmund 263–67
Baden-Powell, Lord 229
Baldwin, James 155, 270
Bankert, Albert 62
Barbezat, Maurice 140
Barney, Natalie Clifford 90
Barthé, Richmond 270
Bartholoni, Daisy 140, 143
Bartók, Béla 272
Bashō, Matsuo 202
Bataille, Georges 136
Batista, Fulgencio 287
Batten, Mabel 89–90, 92
Baudelaire, Charles 278
Baudri of Bourgueil 42
Beckford, William 73
Belcombe, Anne 124, 126
Belifante, Frieda 230–32
Benkov, Edith 57
Bentley, Gladys 270
Bergé, Pierre 238–39
Bernard of Clairvaux, St 41
Binding, Paul 156
Blacker, Carlos 99
Blanshard, Alastair 23, 26
Bloch, Vitale 62
Bonheur, Rosa 11, 222–26
Boothby, Baron 235–36
Bosmans, Henriëtte 230
Boswell, John 36, 39
Boursicot, Bernard 283–84, 286
Bowles, Paul 150, 185, 272
Boyle, Ernest 267
Brand, Adolf 154–55, 242
Bray, Alan 50
Brecht, Bertold 144
Bremond d’Ars, Yvonne de 139–40
Breton, André 136
Bretonne, Restif de la 52
Briggs, John 251
Britten, Benjamin 210, 229
Brown, Judith C. 54
Bruce, John 192–93
Bryant, Anita 251
Bucini, Pancrazio see Moro, Il
Buckingham, Bob 87
Buckley, William F. 162
Buñuel, Luis 158
Burke, Edmund 122
Burton, Richard 51
Butler, Eleanor 13, 120–23
Byron, Lord 122
C
Cahun, Claude 135–39
Camus, Albert 280
Capote, Truman 151, 161, 162
Carlini, Benedetta 54–58
Carpenter, Edward 13, 52, 74, 79–81, 85, 204, 240, 269, 270, 272
Cartier-Bresson, Henri 176
Casement, Sir Roger 128
Cassia 266–67
Cavafy, Constantine 186–89, 197
Cavalieri, Tommaso de’ 43, 45, 47
Cellini, Benvenuto 119
Cernuda, Luis 156
Cesarini, Nino 114–16
Cézanne, Paul 225
Charmides 26–27
Chen Weisong 12, 31–35
Chhatarpur, Maharaja of 260–63
Cicero 42, 48
Cixi, Empress 264, 266
Clarac, Claude Achille 145
Clark, Anna 127
Clarke, Arthur C. 272
Clemenceau, Georges 228
Cocteau, Jean 109, 110, 112, 140, 229
Colette 116
Colonna, Vittoria 43
Comisso, Giovanni 264
Confucius 34
Cooper, Wayne F. 269
Copeland, Aaron 150
Corneille, Pierre 64
Cornwell, John 218, 220
Cotterell, Sir Charles 65
Crevel, René 136
Crivelli, Bartolomea 54, 56–58
Cullen, Countee 270
Cydias 26
D
Dahoum 190–91, 193
Dalí, Salvador 158
Darwin, Charles 262
David 17–19, 42, 103, 220
Davidson, James 23, 26
Debussy, Claude 272
Deleuze, Gilles 254
Demuth, Charles 229
Denis, Claire 229
Diaghilev, Sergei 109–13, 118, 169
Diamond, David 148
Dior, Christian 236, 238
Ditsie, Beverly 258
Dolben, Digby 221
Dolin, Anton 112, 113
Dong Xian 34
Douglas, Lord Alfred 99, 100, 116, 266
Downes, Stephen 119
Doyle, Peter 78
Dreyfus Affair 96, 98–99, 135
Driberg, Tom 236
Dubois, W. E. B. 269
Durrell, Lawrence 186
Duse, Eleanora 105
E
Eakins, Thomas 172
Eekhoud, Georges 116
Einstein, Albert 144
el-Adl, Mohammed 86–87
Ellis, Havelock 81, 89, 136, 204, 240, 242
Enckell, Magnus 169–72
Eon, Chevalier d’ 68–73
Epprecht, Marc 257
Erdmann, Charles 210
Essebac, Achille 116
Euripides 119
F
Fassianos, Alekos 189
Faulkner, William 151
Fearnehough, Albert 79
Feltkamp, Johan 230
Fersen see Adelswärd-Fersen, Jacques d’
Filosofov, Dmitry 110
Fischer, Erica 163
Flandrin, Hippolyte 107
Fleming, Ian 209
Ford, Tom 239
Forrer, Anita 147
Forster, E. M. 12, 81, 84–88, 186, 193, 207, 260
Foujita, Léonard 140
Franco, Francisco 156, 159
Frangoes, Jennifer 127
Frederick the Great 65–68
Freud, Sigmund 240
Friedländer, Benedict 242
Friend, Donald 13, 172–75, 272
Froude, Richard Hurrell 220
Fukuzawa, Morito 209, 210
G
Galdi, Vincenzo 107
Galliano, John 239
Garbo, Greta 148
Garland, Judy 234
Gaultier, Jean-Paul 239
Genet, Jean 155, 185, 229
Gernreich, Rudi 239
Ghandour, Amal 198
Gibson, Ian 156
Gide, André 52, 77, 81–84, 100, 144, 155, 185, 193
Giese, Karl 243
Ginsberg, Allen 288
Gloeden, Wilhelm von 12, 100, 104–8, 114, 196
Gomes, Alari 176–78
Gore-Booth, Eva 127–30
Grant, Duncan 86, 112
Graves, Robert 191
Greer, Germaine 54
Guattari, Félix 254
Guevara, Che 282, 288
Gury, Christian 228
H
Hadrian 27–31, 172
Hafiz 117, 185
Haggerty, George 50
Hahn, Reynaldo 112
Haire, Norman 242
Hall, Radclyffe 12, 85, 88–92, 246
Halpern, David 26
Hammill, Graham 65
Hartnell, Sir Norman 239
Harun al-Rashid 182, 184
Haug, Hans 155
Hawthorn, Nathaniel 159
Hay, Harry 239
Haylock, John 210
Healey, Chris 99
Hervey, Lord John 68
Hilary the Englishman 42
Hildegard of Bingen 57–58
Hinsch, Brett 34
Hirschfeld, Magnus 11, 52, 93, 154, 240–45
Hockney, David 169, 189
Hocquenghem, Guy 11, 252–56
Holcombe, Alec 279
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 221
Hössli, Heinrich 240
Housman, A. E. 108
Hughes, Langston 270
Hughes, Robert 174
Hugo, Victor 113
Hurston, Zora Neale 270
Huxley, Aldous 144, 262
Huy Can 279–80
Huynh Sanh Thong 278
Huysmans, Joris-Karl 214
Hwang, David Henry 283, 286
I
Innocent X, Pope 58
Isherwood, Christopher 86, 92–95, 150, 154
Iwaskiewicz, Jaroslaw 119
J
Jacobs, Marc 239
Jansson, Eugène 12, 166–69
Jekyll, Walter 267, 269
John, St 19, 68
Jonathan 17–19, 42, 103, 220
K
Kangxi, Emperor 32
Karlha, Harri 170
Kates, Gary 72–73
Katte, Hans von 66, 68
Keene, Donald 210
Keith, Peter 66
Kenny, Sir Anthony 220
Kessler, Count Harry 110
Keynes, John Maynard 86, 110
Keyt, George 272
Khakhar, Bhupen 178–81
Khalthoum, Um 199
Khnumhotep 14–16
Kirkup, James 210
Kitchener, Lord 229
Klumpke, Anna Elizabeth 226
Kochno, Boris 110, 118–19
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von 240
Kray, Ronnie 233–36
Krupp, Friedrich 82, 107
Kūkai 202
Kuzmin, Mikhail 110
L
La Boétie, Étienne de 47–48, 50
Ladye see Batten, Mabel
Lai Nguyen An 279
Lamartine, Alphonse de 278
Latimer, Tirza True 143
Lawrence, T. E. 189–93, 199
Lawton, Charles 124
Lazzarini, Elena 47
Leaena 22
Léger, Fernand 179
Lempicka, Tamara de 140
Leo XIII, Pope 221
Lewis, Gifford 130
Lezama Lima, José 287–89
Li Shiu Tong 243, 245
Lifar, Serge 110
Limbert, Claudia A. 64
Lincolm, Abraham 78
Ling of Wei, Duke 34, 35
Lira, Jack 252
Lister, Anne 124–27
Llangollen, Ladies of see Butler, Eleanor; Ponsonby, Sarah
Lloyd, Constance 100
Locke, Alain 270
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 162
Lopokova, Lydia 112
Lorca, Federico García 156–59, 282
Lorenzetti, Ambrogio 179
Loti, Pierre 229, 263
Louÿs, Pierre 245
Love, Barbara 23
Lvov, Prince Pavel 110
Lyautey, Hubert 226–29
Lyon, Phyllis 245, 246–47, 249
M
McCarthy, Joseph 12, 246
McCullers, Carson 147, 148–51, 161
Macdonald, Sir Hector 82, 229
McKay, Claude 267–70
McPhee, Colin 150, 174
Maillart, Ella 146–48
Malherbe, Suzanne Alberte Eugénie 135–36, 139
Mandela, Nelson 257
Mangeot, André 92
Mann, Erika 144, 147
Mann, Klaus 144
Mann, Thomas 108, 144
Manvendra, Prince 263
Mantegazza, Paolo 240
Marbod of Rennes 42
Margueritte, Victor 140
Marie-Antoinette, Queen 113
Markevitch, Igor 112
Markievicz, Constance 128
Martin, Del 245–49
Martin du Gard, Roger 147
Masood, Syed Ross 86–87
Massine, Léonide 110, 113
Maupin, Armistead 249
Mavrin, Aleksei 110
Mbeki, Thabo 257
Mehmet V 197
Melville, Herman 161, 229
Meredith, Hugh 86
Mermoz, Jean 140
Merrill, George 80–81
Micas, Nathalie 225–26
Michaux, Henri 136
Michelangelo 11, 19, 43–47, 103
Miel, Jacques 282
Milk, Harvey 249–52
Mishima, Yukio 77, 104, 210–14, 215–17
Mizi Xia 34
Moffatt, Wendy 86
Monma, Chiyo 206–7
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley 68
Montaigne, Michel de 11, 47–50
Monteil, Vincent-Mansour 184
Moore, Marcel see Malherbe, Suzanne Alberte Eugénie
Mori, Katsue 209, 210
Moro, Il 106, 108
Morris, William 81
Moscone, George 251–52
Müller, Klaus 232
N
Neddermeyer, Heinz 93, 95
Neruda, Pablo 272
Newman, John Henry 218–22
Niankhkhnum 14–16
Nietzsche, Friedrich 119
Nijinsky, Vaslav 110, 112–13, 169
Nkoli, Simon 256–59
Noailles, Anna de 109
Norcliffe, Isabella (‘Tib’) 124, 126
Nugent, Richard Bruce 270
Nujoma, Sam 259
O
O’Connor, Flannery 151
O’Leary, Laurie 234–25
Opel, Margot von 147
Orton, Joe 185
Østermark-Johansen, Lene 43
Owen, Anne 62, 64–65
P
Pallu, Bishop 58, 60
Panizzardi, Alessandro 96–99
Parker, Peter 262
Parkinson, R. B. 16
Pasolini, Pier Paolo 197, 199
Pater, Walter 100, 106, 119, 212
Paul, St 19
Pearson, John 234
Pessoa, Fernand 31
Peyrefitte, Roger 116
Philips, Katherine 62–65
Picasso, Pablo 109, 110
Piñera, Virgilio 287–89
Plato 24, 26, 52, 103
Plomer, William 85, 86, 207–10
Plugfelder, Gregory 203
Plüschow, Guglielmo 107
Plutarch 22
Ponsonby, Sarah 13, 120–23
Porch, Douglas 229
Porter, Cole 110
Porter, Katherine Anne 150
Post, Laurens van der 209
Poulenc, Francis 272
Prabhavananda, Swami 95
Prados, Emilio 156
Prokosch, Frederic 264
Proust, Marcel 228, 272
Puccini, Giacomo 263, 286
Purple Clouds 32–33, 35
Q
Queensberry, Marquess of 100, 103
R
Rapún, Rafael Rodríguez 158–59
Rashid O. 185
Ravel, Maurice 112
Reeder, Greg 16
Reni, Guido 210
Rhodes, Cecil 209
Richardis of Stade 57–58
Richie, Donald 210, 213, 214, 217
Rimbaud, Arthur 278, 282
Robertson, Jennifer 206
Rocco, Antonio 51–54
Rocke, Michael 43
Röhm, Ernst 154
Roper, Esther 127–28, 130
Röske, Thomas 62
Ross, Robert 100, 104
Rossetti, Christina 276
Rouart, Eugène 82, 84
Rousseau, Henri (‘Le Douanier’) 179
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 73
Rowbotham, Sheila 79
Ruan Ji 35
Rubinstein, Arthur 117–18
Rumi 117, 185
Rupp, Leila 22, 124
S
Sade, Marquis de 52
Sahuquillo, Angel 156
Saikaku, Ihara 200–203
Saint Laurent, Yves 236–39
Sappho 20–23, 116, 139, 206, 245
Sartre, Jean-Paul 254
Saslow, John 45
Satie, Erik 110
Saul 17–19
Schalow, Paul Gordon 202
Schragenheim, Felice 163–65
Schultz, Richard 152–55
Schwartzkoppen, Maximilian von 96–99
Schwarzenbach, Annemarie 12, 144–48, 150, 151
Scott, Sir Walter 122–23
Sebastian, St 31, 116, 157, 210, 217
Sénac, Jean 199, 280–83
Sergius, St 36–39
Shakespeare, William 103
Shi Du Du 284, 286
Shi Pei Pu 283–86
Shilts, Randy 252
Smith, Scott 250
Smyth, Ethel 90
Socrates 23–27, 51, 68, 212
Solidor, Suzy 139–43
Soukaz, Lionel 254
Souline, Evguenia 90
Spann, Hans 155
Spender, Stephen 93, 207
Spiess, Walter 174
St John, Ambrose 218, 220–21
Stiebel, Arlene 65
Strachey, Lytton 86
Strauss, Richard 105
Stravinsky, Igor 109, 110
Sun Yat-sen 35
Suzuki, Michiko 205–6
Sweerts, Michael 58–62
Symonds, John Addington 31, 81, 108, 240
Szymanowski, Karol 110, 117–19
T
Tardieu, Ambroise 240
Taylor, Margot 90
Theseus 68
Thomé, Verner 172
Tiernan, Sonja 130
Tihinen, Juha-Heikki 169
To Hoai 279
Toulet, Thierry 284, 286
Trask, Spencer and Katrina 161
Trevor-Roper, Hugh 264, 266
Troubridge, Lady Una 90, 92
Tsarouchis, Yannis 193–97, 229
U
Ugra 104, 263
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich 51, 240
Uniloswki, Zbigniew 118
V
Valdivieso, Eduardo Rodríguez 158
Van Dongen, Kees 140
Van Vechten, Carl 270
Verlaine, Paul 157, 278
Versace, Gianni 239
Vicinus, Martha 123, 126
Voltaire 23, 66
W
Walker, Anne 126
Warner, Sylvia Townsend 130–34
Washington, Booker T. 269
Weatherby, Meredith 217
Wellington, Duke of 122
Wendt, Lionel 272–77
White, Dan 251–52
White, Elizabeth Wade 134
Whitman, Walt 9, 74–78, 79, 81, 82, 100, 157, 159, 269, 280
Wightman, Alistair 118
Wilde, Oscar 23–24, 52, 74, 79, 82, 84, 85, 99, 100–104, 105, 109, 110, 116, 214, 229, 263, 267, 269, 282
William the Conqueror 41
Williams, Tennessee 150
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim 30–31, 105, 212
Wolf, Inge 163
Wolf, Rudi 154
Wollstonecraft, Mary 73
Woolf, Virginia 86, 207
Wordsworth, William 120
Wright, Barbara 147
Wright, Basil 275
Wright, Richard 150
Wu Cuncun 32–33, 35
Wu Qing 33
Wust, Lilly 163–65
X
Xanthippe 24
Xu Ziyun see Purple Clouds
Xuan Dieu 277–80
Y
Yato, Tamotsu 215–17
Yeats, William Butler 127
Yoshida, Hanbei 202
Yoshida, Kenkō 202
Yoshiya, Nobuko 204–7
Yourcenar, Marguerite 31
Z
Zeffirelli, Franco 194
Zola, Émile 99