A Queer Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565842103 ISBN 13: 9781565842106

Publisher: The New Press, 1994

Synopsis

A Queer Reader is a rich and provocative collection of writings about male homosexuality—a gay version of Bartlett’s Quotations, with authors ranging from Plato to Andy Warhol. Arranging entries chronologically and drawing on sources from the Satyricon to Gay News, from Michelangelo&squo;s sonnets to a speech in the House of Lords, from sexually explicit graffiti found in Pompeii to a Playboy interview with David Bowie, Patrick Higgins uses novels, biographies, autobiographies, histories, and ephemera to present gay history as never before.

About this title

About the Author:

Patrick Higgins lectures in history at New Hall, Cambridge.

Review:

A fine and useful volume, and one which makes compulsive reading. . . A bedside, loosed, pulsed book, yet a profound one. -- The Times [London]

A most quotable history of homosexuality. . . Higgins has plucked the pithy and profound from the likes of Wilde, Warhol, Aristophanes, and Isherwood. -- New York Magazine

A wonderful example of the kind of old-fashioned anthology they used to call 'a treasury.' Certainly it's the perfect gift for any gay man--but give it to yourself first. -- Genre

Destined for the reading lists of gay studies courses everywhere. . . A topic that, even after 2500 years, continues to be endlessly fascinating. -- Echo

Highly readable, this is a fascinating volume. . . The literary equivalent of going on a Gay Pride march. -- Capital Gay Community News

Thoughtful, touching, and endearing. . . [with] huge laughs along the way. -- The Observer [London]

Unprecedented. . . A rich collection. -- A Different Light Review

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1565842103
• ISBN 13: 9781565842106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Higgins Patrick