Gay lives /
By: Aldrich, Robert.
Publisher: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2012Description: 304 pages : illustrations (some color), plates ; 27 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780500251904.Subject(s): Gays -- Biography | Lesbians -- Biography | Gay men -- Biography | Homosexuality -- HistoryDDC classification: 306.766092Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 306.766092 ALD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0082451 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-298) and index.
Ancient ancestors: Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum ; David and Jonathan ; Sappho ; Socrates ; Hadrian and Antinous ; Chen Weisong -- 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 -- Founding fathers and mothers: Walt Whitman ; Edward Carpenter ; André Gide ; E.M. Forster ; Radclyffe Hall ; Christopher Isherwood -- 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 -- 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 -- Entanglements of sex and politics: Richard Schultz ; Federico García Lorca ; Newton Arvin ; Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim -- Visions of male beauty: Eugène Jansson ; Magnus Enckell ; Donald Friend ; Alair Gomes ; Bhupen Khakhar -- Love in the Levant: Abu Nuwas ; Constantine Cavafy ; T.E. Lawrence ; Yannis Tsarouchis ; Ali al-Jabri -- Japonisme: Ihara Saikaku ; Nobuko Yoshiya ; William Plomer ; Yukio Mishima ; Tamotsu Yato -- Diverse callings: John Henry Newman ; Rosa Bonheur ; Hubert Lyautey ; Frieda Belinfante ; Ronnie Kray ; Yves Saint Laurent -- Radicals and activists: Magnus Hirschfeld ; Del Martin ; Harvey Milk ; Guy Hocquenghem ; Simon Nkoli -- International lives in the modern era: Maharaja of Chhatarpur ; Edmund Backhouse ; Claude McKay ; Lionel Wendt ; Xuan Dieu ; Jean Sénac ; Shi Pei Pu ; Reinaldo Arenas.
"A comprehensive biographical survey from ancient Chinese courtiers to pioneers of gay liberation in the twenty-first century, from the unknowable relationships of the distant past to the frankest affirmations of modern sexual. identity"--Publisher description.