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Who's who in contemporary gay and lesbian history : from World War II to the present day / edited by Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon.
LIBRA HQ75.2 .W46 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people--Biography.
- Gay people.
- Lesbians--Biography.
- Lesbians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 460 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
- Summary:
- "Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day"provides a comprehensive modern biographical survey of homosexuality in the Western world. Entries cover the less well-known and cult icons; gay and lesbian activists to homophobics; classical composers to rock musicians; novelists and poets to queer theorists and Nobel Prize winners and Olympic athletes. Among those included are controversial political activists such as Peter Tatchell, pop icon David Bowie, creators of groundbreaking work in literature and the arts such as Jeanette Winterson and intellectuals such as Susan Sontag.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 041522974X
- OCLC:
- 45306558
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