Full name: Homophobia: A History

Author: Byrne Fone Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780312420307 0312420307

In this tour de force of historical and literary research, Fone, an acclaimed expert on gay and lesbian history and professor emeritus at the City University of New York, chronicles the evolution of homophobia through the centuries. Delving into literary sources as diverse as Greek philosophy, Elizabethan poetry, the Bible, and the Victorian novel, as well as historical texts and propaganda ranging from the French Revolution to the Moral Majority to the transcripts of current TV talk shows, Fone reveals how and why same-sex desire has long been the object of legal, social, religious, and political persecution. Similar books: Hidden from History by Martin Duberman Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton Strangers by Graham Robb Homosexuality in Renaissance England by Alan Bray Gay American History by Jonathan Ned Katz Making Gay History by Eric Marcus Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer Catastrophe by David Keys The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities by John D'emilio Civilization by Roger Osborne The Other Side of Silence by John Loughery Stonewall by Martin Duberman