Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality Format:Paperback A sweeping

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" --Jia Tolentino

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a tour de force about the collision between a coalescing 1980s 'Black lesbian and gay literary and poetic movement' in New York and the onslaught of AIDS

author of The Science of Desire and The God Gene

Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality Format:Paperback A sweepingIn Love Stories, Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men's intimacies with men during the nineteenth century including those of Abraham Lincoln drawing flesh and blood portraits of intimate friendships and the ways in which men struggled to name, define, and defend their sexual feelings for one another. In a world before gay and straight referred to sexuality, men like Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds created new ways to name and conceive of