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Queer City
- Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
Engelsk Paperback
Queer City
- Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
Engelsk Paperback

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‘Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts’ Simon Callow, Guardian

In this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way – through the history and experiences of its gay population.

In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria (‘wolf dens’ or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the 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.

Today, we live in an era of openness and tolerance and Queer London has become part of the new norm. Ackroyd tells us the hidden story of how it got there, celebrating its diversity, thrills and energy on the one hand; but reminding us of its very real terrors, dangers and risks on the other.









Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780099592945
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0099592940
Udg. Dato:
24 maj 2018
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
138mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
24 maj 2018
Forfatter(e):
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