Homophobia: a history

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Traces the history of religious, legal, and social persecution of homosexuals, exploring the references as found in the Bible, punishment of homosexuals in ancient Greece, and attitudes reflected in modern literature, media, and hate crimes.

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Full title :Homophobia : a history / Byrne Fone.

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Publication Date:2001.
Edition:1st Picador USA ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Picador USA
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

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"A Metropolitan book."

Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2000.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 480 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0312420307, 9780312420307, 9780805045598, 0805045597
oclc:ocm47746400
LC Classification:HQ76.25
Dewey Decimal:306.76609

Introduction : the last acceptable prejudice -- Before Homophobia? : "homosexuality" and "homophobia" in antiquity -- Inventing Sodom : sodom and homosexual behavior in the old and new testaments -- A Thousand Years of Sodomy : defining sodomy, 500-1400 -- Lighting Bonfires : sodomy and anxiety in the renaissance -- Sodomy and the Enlightenment : unmasking and punishing sodomites, 1700-1860 -- Victorian Secrets : uranians, inverts, perverts, and homosexuals, 1850-1910 -- New World Homophobia : sodomy and persecution in america, 1500-1900 -- Normal Homosexuals : homophobia and resistance in the twentieth century -- Epilogue : the last acceptable prejudice.