The Resource Queer city : gay London from the Romans to the present day, Peter Ackroyd
Queer city : gay London from the Romans to the present day, Peter Ackroyd
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The item Queer city : gay London from the Romans to the present day, Peter Ackroyd represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
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- Summary
- Peter Ackroyd is our preeminent chronicler of London. In Queer City, he looks at the metropolis in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the penis was worshipped and homosexuality was considered admirable. 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 and clergy, monks and missionaries. His rule was accompanied by the first laws against queer practices. What followed was an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure, from the notorious Normans, whose military might depended on masculine loyalty, and the fashionable female transvestism of the 1620s; to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early 1800s and the 'gay plague' in the 1980s. Ackroyd takes us right into this hidden city, celebrating its diversity, thrills and energy on the one hand; but reminding us of its very real terrors, dangers and risks on the other. In a city of superlatives, it is perhaps this endless sexual fluidity and resilience that epitomise the real triumph of London
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- What's in a name?
- A red and savage tongue
- A military lay
- The friend
- No cunt
- Bring on the dancing boys
- Soft and slippery
- The rubsters
- Suck thy master
- Arsey-versy
- Continually wet
- Good golly Miss Molly
- Flats
- Tiddy dolls
- Rump riders
- Omi-palone
- Damned and done for
- Howl
- Isbn
- 9781419730993
- Label
- Queer city : gay London from the Romans to the present day
- Title
- Queer city
- Title remainder
- gay London from the Romans to the present day
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Ackroyd
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Peter Ackroyd is our preeminent chronicler of London. In Queer City, he looks at the metropolis in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the penis was worshipped and homosexuality was considered admirable. 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 and clergy, monks and missionaries. His rule was accompanied by the first laws against queer practices. What followed was an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure, from the notorious Normans, whose military might depended on masculine loyalty, and the fashionable female transvestism of the 1620s; to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early 1800s and the 'gay plague' in the 1980s. Ackroyd takes us right into this hidden city, celebrating its diversity, thrills and energy on the one hand; but reminding us of its very real terrors, dangers and risks on the other. In a city of superlatives, it is perhaps this endless sexual fluidity and resilience that epitomise the real triumph of London
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Dewey number
- 306.76/609421
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ76.3.G72
- LC item number
- L652 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gays
- Gays
- Homosexuality
- Label
- Queer city : gay London from the Romans to the present day, Peter Ackroyd
- Bar code
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- 31223134120170
- 31223134120139
- 31223134120162
- 31223125609280
- 31223125609306
- 31223125609298
- 31223134120154
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- What's in a name? -- A red and savage tongue -- A military lay -- The friend -- No cunt -- Bring on the dancing boys -- Soft and slippery -- The rubsters -- Suck thy master -- Arsey-versy -- Continually wet -- Good golly Miss Molly -- Flats -- Tiddy dolls -- Rump riders -- Omi-palone -- Damned and done for -- Howl
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- ix, 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781419730993
- Lccn
- 2017949745
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), color maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1000583197
- Label
- Queer city : gay London from the Romans to the present day, Peter Ackroyd
- Bar code
-
- 31223134120170
- 31223134120139
- 31223134120162
- 31223125609280
- 31223125609306
- 31223125609298
- 31223134120154
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- What's in a name? -- A red and savage tongue -- A military lay -- The friend -- No cunt -- Bring on the dancing boys -- Soft and slippery -- The rubsters -- Suck thy master -- Arsey-versy -- Continually wet -- Good golly Miss Molly -- Flats -- Tiddy dolls -- Rump riders -- Omi-palone -- Damned and done for -- Howl
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- ix, 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781419730993
- Lccn
- 2017949745
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), color maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1000583197
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