Gay life and culture : a world history / edited by Robert Aldrich.
Publisher: New York, NY : Universe, 2006.
ISBN: 0789315114
9780789315113
Description: 384 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Subject: Homosexuality, Male. History.
Lesbianism History.
Gay men History.
Lesbians History.
Gay men Social life and customs.
Lesbians Social life and customs.
Gay men in art.
Lesbians in art.
Contents: Gay and lesbian history / Robert Aldrich -- Homosexuality in Greece and Rome / Charles Hupperts -- The Middle Ages / Bernd-Ulrich Hergemòˆller -- Early modern Europe, 1400-1700 / Helmut Puff -- Male homosexuality in the age of enlightenment and revolution, 1680-1850 / Michael Sibalis -- Lesbians and their like in early modern Europe, 1500-1800 / Laura Gowing -- The Americas : from colonial times to the 20th century / Brett Genny Beemyn -- The homosexual age, 1870-1940 / Florence Tamagne -- Public spheres and gay politics since the second World War / Domenico Rizzo -- Loving women in the modern world / Leila J. Rupp -- Discovering homosexuality : cross-cultural comparison and the history of sexuality / Lee Wallace -- Homosexuality in the Middle East and North Africa / Vincenzo Patanè€ -- Desire and same-sex intimacies in Asia / Adrian Carton -- The gay world : 1980 to the present / Gert Hekma.