Homosexuality and Civilization bisexual? and the environment

and the environment

a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman living in Toronto

Wilde's editor's concern was well placed

beautifully written and deeply moving

Homosexuality and Civilization bisexual? and the environmentHow have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre Meiji Japan. Ancient Greek culture celebrated same sex love in history,