Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

Peter Ackroyd

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Abrams
Country
United States
Published
14 May 2019
Pages
262
ISBN
9781419735141

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

Peter Ackroyd

In Queer City, the acclaimed Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way-through the complete history and experiences of its gay and lesbian population. In Roman Londinium, the city was dotted with lupanaria ( wolf dens or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels), and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks, and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure. Ackroyd takes us right into the hidden history of the city; from the notorious Normans to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early nineteenth century. He journeys through the coffee bars of sixties Soho to Gay Liberation, disco music, and the horror of AIDS. Ackroyd reveals the hidden story of London, with its diversity, thrills, and energy, as well as its terrors, dangers, and risks, and in doing so, explains the origins of all English-speaking gay culture.

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