“The nineteenth century had been a golden age for those of you people understood variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals. A long time before Stonewall and Gay Pride, there is this type of plain thing as homosexual tradition, plus it ended up being recognized throughout European countries and America. Graham Robb, brilliant biographer of Balzac, Hugo, and Rimbaud, examines exactly exactly just how homosexuals were addressed by culture and discovers an account of astonishing threshold. He defines the life of homosexual women and men: the way they discovered their sex and accepted or disguised it; the way they arrived on the scene; the way they made contact with like people that are minded. ”
The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark reputation for Gay lifetime in the usa by Charles Kaiser
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