A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity acR. B. Parkinson, Kate Smith
A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity acR. B. Parkinson, Kate Smith How old is the oldest chat-up line between men? Were ancient Greek men who had sex together necessarily gay? Who was the first…
Specifikacia A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity acR. B. Parkinson, Kate Smith
A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity acR. B. Parkinson, Kate Smith
How old is the oldest chat-up line between men? Were ancient Greek men who had sex together necessarily gay? Who was the first lesbian?
A Little Gay History takes objects ranging from Ancient Egyptian papyri and the erotic scenes on the Roman Warren Cup to images by modern artists including David Hockney and Bhupen Khakhar to consider questions such as these. And what did Shakespeare think about cross-dressing? Explored are the issues behind forty artefacts from ancient times to the present, and from cultures across the world, to ask a question that concerns us all: how easily can we recognize love in history?