The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present - Softcover

Russell, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0758201001 ISBN 13: 9780758201003

Publisher: Kensington, 2002

Synopsis

Covering 2,500 years and celebrating a diverse range of individuals, a fascinating volume selects and ranks a vast array of writers, thinkers, artists, musicians, military leaders, politicians, and gay rights activists who have had a lasting impact on how gay men and lesbians define themselves. Reprint.

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From Publishers Weekly:

From Socrates and Sappho to Madonna and activist/journalist Michelangelo Signorile, this listing profiles those who have profoundly shaped gay and lesbian culture-and culture in general: the Amazons, 14th-century Persian poet Hafiz, Proust, Michel Foucault, professional provocateur Quentin Crisp and so on. Aside from an equivocal portrait of Rock Hudson, Russell (The Salt Point) omits figures whose undeniable influence was less benign, a strategy that misfires. Sigmund Freud, who wrote extensively about sexuality, is out, but Magnus Hirschfeld and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, two obscure homophilic contemporaries of his, are in. Yet quibbling with the choices here-why Holly Near but not k.d. lang, the Patrons of Stonewall but not the Daughters of Bilitis?-is as pleasurable as reading Rusell's incisive essays. Photos not seen by PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kensington
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0758201001
• ISBN 13: 9780758201003
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386