Research Catalog

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Description

1. xxii, 386 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

1. Gay men and lesbians can claim a rich history. But how is that varied and evolving culture defined? What individuals, both past and present, have helped shape gay and lesbian identity as we currently understand it? Who, exactly, are the homosexual men and women who have paved the way for gay men and lesbians to be who and where they are today? Spanning 2400 years of history - from Socrates and Sappho to Michelangelo Signorile and Madonna, from Oscar Wilde and Radclyffe Hall to Rock Hudson and Martina Navratilova, from Leonardo da Vinci and Alexander the Great to Liberace and Larry Kramer - The Gay 100 charts the range, diversity, and possibilities of gay and lesbian life. Paul Russell has selected and then ranked the 100 individuals - writers, thinkers, artists, musicians, military leaders, politicians, those active in the gay rights movement - who have had the greatest effect on that collective life. In evaluating their contributions and weighing their influence - how each affected both history in general and gay/lesbian identity in particular - he has constructed a lens through which we can trace the evolution of gay consciousness and the quest for real equality and visibility. Uncensored, celebratory, and intelligently subjective, this book recovers the lives of men and women whose contributions may have outlived their names, documents the long shadows cast by certain courageous and exemplary figures, and restores to the biographies of influential gay men and lesbians the all-too-often suppressed story of their sexuality. The Gay 100 is certain to vex, enlighten, and entertain readers with who's on, who's off, and who's where on the list. It is sure to take its place as one of the most important, debated, and frequently sought books about the gay and lesbian experience. -- from dust jacket.

Alternative title

1. Gay one hundred

Subject

1. Gay men > Biography
2. Lesbians > Biography
3. Homosexuality > History
4. Gay people > Biography
5. Gay people > History
6. Homosexuality, Female > history
7. Homosexuality, Male > history
8. Personnes homosexuelles > Biographies
9. Personnes homosexuelles > Histoire
10. Homosexuels masculins > Biographies
11. Lesbiennes > Biographies
12. Homosexualité > Histoire
13. Gay men
14. Homosexuality
15. Lesbians

Genre/Form

1. Biography
2. Biography.
3. Biographies
4. History
5. Biographies.

Contents

1. Socrates -- Sappho -- Oscar Wilde -- Magnus Hirschfeld -- The 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 Bounarroti -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Johann Joachim Windkelmann -- Harry Hay -- Harvey Milk -- Queen Christina of Sweden -- Edward II -- Jane Addams -- Emily Dickinson -- Radclyffe Hall -- Peter Ilyick Tchaikovsky -- Andre Gide -- Marcel Proust -- Michel Foucault -- Andy Warhol -- John Cage -- Ruth Benedict -- James Baldwin -- Hafiz -- Byron -- The Ladies of Llangollen -- David and Jonathan -- Petronius -- The Amazons -- Natalie Barney -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Jean Genet -- Sergey Diaghilev/Vaslav Nijinsky -- Adrienne Rich -- Larry Kramer -- Tennessee Williams -- Rosa Bonheur -- Arthur Rimbaud/Paul Verlaine -- Audre Lorde -- We'wha -- Florence Nightingale -- Willa Cather -- Barney Frank -- Bayard Rustin -- E.M. Forster -- Martha Carey Thomas -- Christopher Isherwood -- Pier Paolo Pasolini -- Yukio Mishima -- Rock Hudson -- Sir Harold Nicolson/Vita Sackville-West -- Elsie de Wolfe -- Liberace -- Allen Ginsberg -- Marlene Dietrich -- Quentin Crisp -- H.D. -- Dr. S. Josephine Baker -- Romaine Brooks -- Benjamin Britten -- Rita Mae Brown -- Kate Millett -- Martina Navratilova -- Barbara Gittings -- Martin Duberman -- Gloria Anzaldua/Cherrie Moraga -- Mary Renault -- Francis Bacon -- Derek Jarman -- Alan Turing -- Roy Cohn -- Anna Freud -- Entertainers of Harlem: Gladys Bentley/Ma Rainey/Bessie Smith -- Dr. Tom Waddell -- Holly Near -- Rudolf Nureyev -- Freddie Mercury -- Judy Grahn -- Edmund White -- Katherine Philips -- Ethel Smyth -- Halston -- Samuel Delaney -- Ian McKellen -- James Merrill -- Madonna -- Michelangelo Signorile.

Note

1. "A Citadel Press book."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-378) and index.