Gay Lives by Aldrich, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title page About the Author Other Titles of Interest Acknowledgments Contents Introduction 1 Ancient Ancestors

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

5 Women Who Loved Women

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

7 Visions of Male Beauty

Eugène Jansson Magnus Enckell Donald Friend Alair Gomes Bhupen Khakhar

8 Love in the Levant

Abu Nuwas Constantine Cavafy T. E. Lawrence Yannis Tsarouchis Ali al-Jabri

9 Japonisme

Ihara Saikaku Nobuko Yoshiya William Plomer Yukio Mishima Tamotsu Yato

10 Diverse Callings

John Henry Newman Rosa Bonheur Hubert Lyautey Frieda Belinfante Ronnie Kray Yves Saint Laurent

11 Radicals and Activists

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

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