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A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today's varied gay culture. This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from all walks of life. It includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, activists and artists. Alongside such celebrated figures as Michelangelo, Frederick the Great and Harvey Milk are lesser-known but no less surprising individuals: Dong Xian and the Chinese emperor Ai, whose passion flourished in the 1st century BC; the unfortunate Robert De Peronne, first to be burned at the stake for sodomy; Katharine Philips, writing proto-lesbian poetry in seventeenth-century England; and 'Aimee' and 'Jaguar', whose love defied the death camps of wartime Germany. With many striking illustrations, Gay Life Stories will entertain, give pause for thought, and ultimately celebrate the diversity of human history

1. Homoeroticism and colonial visitors in the Victorian age -- 2. Spirituality, sex and scandals in turn-of-the-century Ceylon -- 3. The Count de Mauny and the Gardens of Taprobane -- 4. Modern art and the homoerotic photographs of Lionel Wendt -- 5. Bevis and Geoffrey Bawa, Donald Friend and their friends -- 6. Sojourners and the seduction of Ceylon -- 7. Painting men : three views -- 8. Gay Lanka?.

Rez.: Die mit vielen historischen Abbildungen attraktiv aufgemachte Darstellung der kolonialen Epoche versteht sich nicht als Nacherzählung von Faktenwissen, das in gewissem Umfang vorausgesetzt wird, sondern richtet den Blick auf die Auswirkung und Interpr