Homophobia : a history
Traces the history of religious, legal, and social persecution of homosexuals, exploring the references as found in the Bible, punishment of homosexuals in ancient Greece, and attitudes reflected in modern literature, media, and hate crimes
History
xi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780312420307, 0312420307
738756066
Introduction : the last acceptable prejudice
Before Homophobia? : "homosexuality" and "homophobia" in antiquity
Inventing Sodom : sodom and homosexual behavior in the old and new testaments
A Thousand Years of Sodomy : defining sodomy, 500-1400
Lighting Bonfires : sodomy and anxiety in the renaissance
Sodomy and the Enlightenment : unmasking and punishing sodomites, 1700-1860
Victorian Secrets : uranians, inverts, perverts, and homosexuals, 1850-1910
New World Homophobia : sodomy and persecution in america, 1500-1900
Normal Homosexuals : homophobia and resistance in the twentieth century
Epilogue : the last acceptable prejudice
"A Metropolitan book."