GAY LIFE STORIES

This book includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, activists and artists. Alongside such celebrated figures as Michelangel o, Frederick the Great and Harvey Milk are lesser-known but no less surprising individuals: Dong Xian and the Chinese emperor Ai, wh ose passion flourished in the 1st century BC/ the unfortunate Robert de Peronne, first to be burned at the stake for sodomy/ Kathari ne Philips, writing proto-lesbian poetry in 17th-century England/ and 'Aimee' and 'Jaguar', whose love defied the death camps of war time Ger...[Read more]