Homophobia: A History

Type

Book

Authors

Fone, Byrne

ISBN 10

0312420307

ISBN 13

9780312420307

Tags

History, Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Greece, Homophobia, Gay, LGBT Studies, North American

Description

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.

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