Gay Life and Culture is a comprehensive, global account of gay history – spectacularly illustrated throughout.

From Theocritus’ verses to Queer as Folk, from the berdaches of North America to the boy-wives of Aboriginal Australia, this extraordinarily wide-ranging book illustrates both the commonality of love and lust, and the various ways in which such desires have been constructed through the ages.

A fully illustrated account of gay and lesbian culture’s contribution to the story of humanity and the world.
Robert Aldrich and fourteen leading historians from ten countries reveal the intriguing variety of their subject matter across the globe and through the millennia, in Europe, the Americas, the Islamic world, Asia and Africa.
From homoerotic Persian poetry to tales of cross-dressing women in 18th-century italy, from the wild, hedonistic delights of between-the-wars Berlin to concepts of a third gender in Asia and Native North America – all are discussed and recounted from memoirs, letters, archives, and works of art and literature.

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Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of
Sydney, and is the author of The Seduction of the Mediterranean, Colonialism and Homosexuality and The Age of Empires.