In this vastly ambitious study, which crosses continents, languages, and nearly an entire century, Gregory Woods reveals the astonishing role that homosexuality has played in shaping Western culture.

Stretching from the trial of Oscar Wilde at the close of the nineteenth century to the birth of gay liberation in the wake of the 1969 Stonewall riots, this book encompasses the revolutionary shift from ‘homosexuality’ as a psychological condition to ‘gayness’ understood as a sexual identity.

Gregory Woods has been Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies at Nottingham Trent University since 1998, when he was the first to receive such an appointment in the UK. He is the author of two previous critical books and six collections of poetry.

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