The gay 100
What do William Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and Oscar Wilde have in common? For one thing, each of their works is most likely being dramatized somewhere in the world at any given moment. But there is a lesser known, far more significant common denominator: Shakespeare, Williams, and Wilde--arguably three of the greatest playwrights who ever lived--were gay. They join ninety-seven other entrants on an esteemed ranking of men and women who--by action or example--have allowed homosexuals to take their place in the world. Encompassing 2500 years and a profusion of professions, some were married with children, closeted until the day they died; others freely acknowledged their sexuality--and more than a few suffered for it. At once uplifting and heartwrenching, these one hundred portraits capture the real people behind the legends and affirm that gay men and lesbians have been an integral part of history from ancient times through the present day--ensuring that those who will follow in their footsteps face a future that is brighter than ever before
Print Book, English, 2002
Kensington ; Mallard, New York, Southampton, 2002
386 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780758201003, 0758201001
1043707822
Socrates
Sappho
Oscar Wilde
Magnus Hirschfeld
Patrons of the Stonewall Inn
Walt Whitman
Gertrude Stein
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Edward Carpenter
J.A. Symonds
Mary Wollstonecraft
Susan B. Anthony
Virginia Woolf
Alexander the Great
Hadrian
St. Augustine
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Leonardo da Vinci
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Harrv Hav