The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted (legal, literary, theological, artistic, and scientific) make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. The product of ten years of research and analysis of records in a dozen languages, this book opens up a new area of historical inquiry and helps elucidate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.

    Joanna Russ's On Strike Against God is remarkable for its deft intertwining of many themes: not only the overt one of coming out, but many intricately (and inevitably) interlaced stories of alienation, a search for community and rebellion against how our society defines women.

    

    

    

    

    Here, as a boy, Michael had to learn survival...and submission to a new way of life, the life of a painted slave in a perfumed palace for soldiers. Now, as a man, he must learn to face his past, to remember the bullets and the pain...and the surprising tenderness he found at the hands of the enigmatic Herr Lorken, the magnificent lord of the fantastic Glass Arcade.

    

    The most complete, correct astrological guide for gay men of the 1990s.

    It publishes provocative articles, interviews and cartoons, poetry and storiesby well-known authors and promising new ones. Aphrodesiac contains the very best of the frankly and affirmatively gay fiction that appeared first in its pages.