Publisher's Synopsis
A Queer Readeris a rich and provocative collection of writings about male homosexuality-a gay version ofBartlett's Quotations, with authors ranging from Plato to Andy Warhol. Arranging entries chronologically and drawing on sources from theSatyricontoGay News, from Michelangelo&squo;s sonnets to a speech in the House of Lords, from sexually explicit graffiti found in Pompeii to aPlayboyinterview with David Bowie, Patrick Higgins uses novels, biographies, autobiographies, histories, and ephemera to present gay history as never before.
