Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

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Synopsis
In Queer City, the acclaimed Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way--through the complete history and experiences of its gay and lesbian population. In Roman Londinium, the city was dotted with qqlupannrin (“wolf dens” or public pleasure houses), qqforniees (brothels), and thermie (hot baths). Then came Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks, and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure. Ackroyd takes us right into the hidden history of the city, from the notorious Normans to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early nineteenth century. He journeys through the coffee bars of sixties Soho to Gay Liberation, disco music, and the horror of AIDS. Ackroyd reveals the hidden story of London, with its diversity, thrills, and energy, as well as its terrors, dangers, and risks, and in doing so, explains the origins of all English-speaking gay culture. At the end of the book is an extensive and up-to-date bibliography that enables the reader to delve more deeply into homosexuality from the renaissance to today in England and in Europe. Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet, and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed nonfiction best sellers London: The Biography, Thames, and London Under, biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multivolume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
278 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781419730993
Publisher:
Abrams, Inc.
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Peter Ackroyd
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Sociology
Submitted By:
Terry Gorman
Proofread By:
Terry Gorman
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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