A Queer Reader

by Gary Rolfe (Author), Lyn Gardner (Author), Ruth Davies (Author), Lyn Gardner (Author), Lyn Gardner (Author), Gary Rolfe (Author)

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  1993

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  The author of this book has divided the book into 20 chapters covering themes such as definitions, denial and exposure, camp, fantasy, school, causes, personality and partners, and prefaced them with a short introduction placing each theme in a wider context. The extracts that follow are often arranged to suggest a dialogue or debate, giving the reader the opportunity to enjoy gentle irony and humour arising from widely divergent opinions on this controversial subject. As well as representing all the great names in homosexual literature, Patrick Higgins has included many extracts from newspapers, magazines and scripts, giving the anthology unusual breadth.

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  The first anthology of its kind, this is a witty, candid and wide-ranging collection of writings about homosexuality - ranging from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. A collection of writings about male homosexuality: a celebration of the diversity of homosexual experience. Patrick Higgins has compiled an anthology which illustrates the changing and the unchanging aspects of homosexuality. He draws on a huge range of sources: from Plato's Symposium to Gay News from Michelangelo's Sonnets to a speech in the House of Lords, from graphic graffiti found in Pompeii to a poem by W. H. Auden. Higgins uses novels, biographies, autobiographies, histories and ephemera to trace the real history of the homosexual sensibility.