The Nineteenth Century was a golden age for those people known variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals.
Finally, Strangers addresses crucial questions of gay culture, including the riddle of its relationship to religion: Why were homosexuals created with feelings that the Creator supposedly condemns? This is a landmark work, full of tolerant wisdom, fresh research, and surprises..
Edgar Hoover).
He also includes a fascinating investigation of the encrypted homosexuality of such famous nineteenth-Century sleuths as Edgar Allan Poe\'s Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes himself (with glances forward in time to Batman and J.
He describes the lives of gay men and women: how they discovered their sexuality and accepted or disguised it; how they came out; how they made contact with like-minded people.
Graham Robb, brilliant biographer of Balzac, Hugo, and Rimbaud, examines how homosexuals were treated by society and finds a tale of surprising tolerance.
Long before Stonewall and Gay Pride, there was such a thing as gay culture, and it was recognized throughout Europe and America.
The Nineteenth Century was a golden age for those people known variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals
