Heroes And Exiles - Gay Icons Through The Ages

Tom Abrose

New Holland

2010

224 páginas

7h 28m

ISBN-13: 9781847734686

Revered in Ancient Greece and Rome and demonized in many cultures since then, homosexuals and lesbians have led extremely turbulent lives over the centuries. Many were forced into exile or went into voluntary exile from their homelands to escape persecution or, in some cases, death. Even in the 20th century, gay people were often viewed as sexually deviant by many governments, consigned in their tens of thousands to exile in Siberia or to the Nazi death camps in the 1930s and 40s. Heroes and Exiles looks at gay exile through the experience of some of the most eminent homosexuals and lesbians in history, including artist such as the wild living Benvenuto Cellini and poets and writers such as Thomas Gray, W.H. Auden and Henry James. Some, like William Beckford, Lord Byron or Oscar Wilde, had tragic experiences; others were triumphant in exile, such as the Ladies of Llangollen who became the most famous lesbians in Europe.

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EXCLUDED HEROES

In this book, you'll see a lot of people that fought against their time where they couldn't even be themselves and their independence where target of the stupid society.