Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity.
Discusses the themes of the male body, war, and homosexual love in poetry, and analyzes the poetry of D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, and Thom Gunn.
Obra polémica que estudia la literatura gay masculina desde la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días, incluyendo asismismo la visión que tienen de este mundo los escritores no homosexuales.