Gay Life in Other Cultures


Below is a selection of titles covering homosexual behaviours and identities outside the UK and US. 1st refers to first edition.


Books from other countries that have had significant impact on Anglo-Saxon thinking (eg by Magnus Hirschfeld) will be found in the Gay / Queer / Homosexual Studies section. Books with male homosexuality as a minor or secondary topic can be found in the sexuality section.


Gay Travel Guides can be found here.

For books in languages other than English, click on Other Languages in the left column.


AUTHOR TITLE EDITION PRICE
Peter AGGLETON (ed) Men Who Sell Sex
International Perspectives on Male Prostitution and AIDS		 1999 1st £30.00
Evelyn BLACKWOOD (ed) The Many Faces of Homosexuality
Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior		 1986  1st £12.50
Juan Jacobo HERNANDEZ (ed) Mexico Gay Agenda Cultural 1990
in Spanish / en castellano		 1990  1st £12.50
Hans LICHT Sexual Life in Ancient Greece 1933 £50.00
Stephen O MURRAY
& Will ROSCOE		 Islamic Homosexualities 1997  1st £12.00
Bernard SERGENT Homosexuality in Greek Myth 1986  1st Engl £17.50
James D STEAKLEY The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany 1975  1st Engl £90.00


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"Indeed, military outposts were recognized as environments so notorious for sodomy that this could be adduced as a motive for clemency: in 1440 the government justified canceling a convicted sodomite's fine because, among other reasons, when he committed sodomy 'he was at military service and frequented soldiers, who are commonly profligate in that vice'."

Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
Michael Rocke
Oxford University Press, 1996













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