ABSTRACT

Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are:
* Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede
* Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde
* Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne.
Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.

part |32 pages

A

chapter |2 pages

Achilles

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Acosta, Mercedes de

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Acton, Harold

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Addams, Jane

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Adrian-Nilsson, Gösta

chapter |2 pages

Aelred of Rievaulx, St

chapter |2 pages

Aeneas

chapter |3 pages

Aeschines

chapter |2 pages

Agathon (and Pausanias)

chapter |2 pages

Aguiar, Asdrúbal António d’

chapter |2 pages

Alan of Lille

chapter |2 pages

Alcuin

chapter |2 pages

Aleramo, Sibilla

chapter |1 pages

Aletrino, Arnold

chapter |2 pages

Alexander the Great

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Algarotti, Francesco

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Alger, Jr, Horatio

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Andersen, Hans Christian

chapter |2 pages

Anderson, Margaret

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Andrade, Mario de

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Andræ, Poul (Georg)

chapter |2 pages

Anneke, Mathilde Franziska

chapter |2 pages

Anselm of Canterbury, St

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Anthony, Susan Brownell

chapter |1 pages

Antinous

chapter |2 pages

Aquinas, St Thomas

chapter |2 pages

Aristophanes

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Arondeus, Willem

chapter |3 pages

Astell, Mary

chapter |2 pages

Atherton, John

chapter |1 pages

Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh)

part |45 pages

B

chapter |2 pages

Bacon, Sir Francis

chapter |2 pages

Baden-Powell, Robert

chapter |1 pages

Balbi, Girolamo

chapter |3 pages

Bang, Herman

chapter |2 pages

Barnes, Djuna

chapter |3 pages

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Barnfield, Richard

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Barrie, J(ames) M(atthew)

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Beach, Sylvia

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Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Beauchamp, William Lygon, 7th Earl

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Beccuti, Francesco

chapter |2 pages

Beckford, William

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Behn, Aphra

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Benedict, Ruth F.

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Benson, E(dward) F(rederic)

chapter |2 pages

Bentham, Jeremy

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Berber, Anita

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Berni, Francesco

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Bernstein, Eduard

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Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne

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Blank, Klaas

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Blüher, Hans

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Bonfàdio, Jàcopo

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Bonheur, Marie Rosalie

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Borgatti, Renata

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Bosco, St Giovanni

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Botelho, Abel

chapter |3 pages

Botto, António

chapter |1 pages

Boye, Karin

chapter |2 pages

Bradford, Edwin Emmanuel

chapter |2 pages

Brand, Adolf

chapter |2 pages

Breker, Arno

chapter |1 pages

Brooke, Rupert

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Brooks, Romaine

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Bukh, Niels

chapter |2 pages

Buonaccorsi, Filippo

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Burra, Edward

chapter |1 pages

Burton, Sir Richard (Francis)

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Butler, Eleanor

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Butler, Samuel

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Byron, George Gordon, Lord

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C

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Caesar, Julius

chapter |2 pages

Cahun, Claude

chapter |3 pages

Caminha, Adolfo

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Campanella, Tommaso

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Campiglia, Maddalena

chapter |2 pages

Carafa, Carlo

chapter |2 pages

Carlier, Félix

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Carpenter, Edward

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Casement, Roger

chapter |3 pages

Cather, Willa

chapter |1 pages

Catullus

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Cavafy, Constantine

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Cellini, Benvenuto

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Charke, Charlotte

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Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Church, John

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Clap, Margaret

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Cocteau, Jean

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Copland, Aaron

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Còsmico, Niccolò

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Couperus, Louis

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Coward, Sir Noel

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Cowell, Henry

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Crane, Hart

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Crevel, René

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Cruz, Juana Inès de la

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Cukor, George

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Cullen, Countee

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Custine, Astolphe de

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Czechowicz, Józef

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D

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Damian, St Peter

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Damon and Pythias

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Dauthendey, Elisabeth

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David and Jonathan

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Day, F(red) Holland

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De Haan, Jacob Israël

chapter |2 pages

Della Casa, Giovanni

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Demuth, Charles

chapter |3 pages

De Pisis, Filippo

chapter |2 pages

Deschauffours, Étienne-Benjamin

chapter |1 pages

Diaghilev, Serge

chapter |2 pages

Dickinson, Emily

chapter |2 pages

Dickinson, G(oldsworthy) Lowes

chapter |2 pages

Dobell, Sir William

chapter |2 pages

Domitian

chapter |1 pages

Doolittle, Hilda

chapter |3 pages

Doone, Rupert

chapter |2 pages

Dorval, Marie

chapter |2 pages

Douglas, Lord Alfred (Bruce)

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Douglas, Norman

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Druskowitz, Helene von

chapter |2 pages

Dumont, Franciscus

chapter |2 pages

Duse, Eleonora

part |17 pages

E

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Eakins, Thomas

chapter |2 pages

Edward II

chapter |2 pages

Edwards, Albert Augustine

chapter |2 pages

Eekhoud, Georges

chapter |2 pages

Eisenstein, Sergei (Mikhailovich)

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Elagabalus

chapter |2 pages

Elbe, Lili

chapter |2 pages

Ellis, Havelock

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Enckell, (Knut) Magnus

chapter |1 pages

Endymion

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Enrique IV de Castilla

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Eon de Beaumont, Chevalier d’

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Erauso, Catalina de

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Erté

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Eulenburg, Philipp zu

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Evans, Edward De Lacy

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F

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Falleni, Eugenia

chapter |1 pages

Farinacci, Prospero

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Farnese, Pier Luigi

chapter |3 pages

Ficino, Marsilio

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Field, Michael

chapter |2 pages

Fiévée, Joseph

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Firbank, Ronald

chapter |1 pages

FitzGerald, Edward

chapter |2 pages

Flandrin, Hippolyte

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Foresythe, Reginald

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Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

chapter |1 pages

Fowler, John Beresford

chapter |2 pages

François, Joannes Henri

chapter |2 pages

Frederick II

chapter |3 pages

Freud, Sigmund

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Friedländer, Benedict

chapter |2 pages

Fullerton, Mary Eliza

chapter |2 pages

Fuseli, Henry

part |21 pages

G

chapter |2 pages

Ganymede

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Garbo, Greta

chapter |2 pages

Gémito, Vincenzo

chapter |3 pages

George, Stefan

chapter |1 pages

Gerhard, Karl

chapter |1 pages

Ghislandi, Vittore

chapter |3 pages

Gide, André

chapter |1 pages

Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis

chapter |2 pages

Glassco, John

chapter |2 pages

Gloeden, Baron Wilhelm von

chapter |2 pages

Gluck

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Gogol, Nikolai

chapter |1 pages

Goodsir, Agnes Noyes

chapter |3 pages

Gorani, Count Giuseppe

chapter |2 pages

Gosse, Edmund

chapter |1 pages

Grant, Duncan

chapter |2 pages

Gray, Eileen

chapter |2 pages

Gray, John

chapter |2 pages

Grimké, Angelina Weld

chapter |2 pages

Grove, Frederick Philip

chapter |1 pages

Guez de Balzac, Jean-Louis

chapter |1 pages

Gustav III

part |27 pages

H

chapter |1 pages

Hadrian

chapter |2 pages

Hāfīz

chapter |2 pages

Haijby, Kurt

chapter |2 pages

Hall, Radclyffe

chapter |2 pages

Hamilton, Alexander

chapter |1 pages

Harford, Lesbia

chapter |2 pages

Harmodius and Aristogiton

chapter |2 pages

Hartley, L(eslie) P(oles)

chapter |2 pages

Hartley, Marsden

chapter |2 pages

Hartnell, Sir Norman

chapter |3 pages

Henri III de Valois

chapter |1 pages

Herbert, Robert George Wyndham

chapter |2 pages

Herod Atticus

chapter |2 pages

Hilary the Englishman

chapter |2 pages

Hiller, Kurt

chapter |3 pages

Hirschfeld, Magnus

chapter |1 pages

Hitchin, Charles

chapter |2 pages

Höch, Hannah

chapter |2 pages

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

chapter |3 pages

Hössli, Heinrich

chapter |1 pages

Houmark (Jens) Christian

chapter |2 pages

Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

chapter |2 pages

Hoyos y Vinent, Antonio de

chapter |2 pages

Huet, Pierre-Daniel

chapter |2 pages

Hunter, Alberta

part |3 pages

I

chapter |2 pages

Ives, George

chapter |2 pages

Iwaszkiewicz, Jarosław

part |11 pages

J

chapter |2 pages

Jahnn, Hans Henny

chapter |2 pages

James I and VI

chapter |2 pages

James, Henry

chapter |1 pages

Jansson, Eugène

chapter |1 pages

Jean II le Bon

chapter |2 pages

Jesus

chapter |2 pages

Jewett, Sarah Orne

chapter |2 pages

Joâo do Rio

chapter |1 pages

Jocelyn, Percy

chapter |1 pages

Johanson, Klara [K.J.]

chapter |2 pages

Jones, Captain Robert

chapter |1 pages

Jonsson, Tor

chapter |2 pages

Julius II

chapter |2 pages

Julius III

part |16 pages

K

chapter |1 pages

Käkikoski, Hilda Maria

chapter |2 pages

Karsch-Haack, Ferdinand

chapter |2 pages

Kejne, Karl-Erik

chapter |1 pages

Kertbeny, Károly Mária

chapter |2 pages

Keynes, John Maynard

chapter |2 pages

Kleist, Heinrich von

chapter |3 pages

Kobylians’ka, Ol’ha

chapter |1 pages

Kok, Martin

chapter |2 pages

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von

chapter |3 pages

Kristina

chapter |1 pages

Krupp, Friedrich

chapter |2 pages

Kupffer, Elisár von

part |31 pages

L

chapter |2 pages

Labouchere, Henry (Du Pre)

chapter |2 pages

Lagerlöf, Selma

chapter |2 pages

Larsen, Nella

chapter |2 pages

Last, Joseph C. F.

chapter |2 pages

Latini, Brunetto

chapter |2 pages

Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

chapter |2 pages

Lawrence, T(homas) E(dward)

chapter |1 pages

Leadbeater, Charles Webster

chapter |3 pages

Lechón, Jan

chapter |2 pages

Leduc, Violette

chapter |2 pages

Lee, Vernon

chapter |1 pages

Lempicka, Tamara de

chapter |2 pages

Leo X

chapter |3 pages

Leonardo da Vinci

chapter |3 pages

Leopardi, Giàcomo

chapter |2 pages

Lifar, Serge

chapter |2 pages

Linck, Catharina Margaretha

chapter |2 pages

Lister, Anne

chapter |3 pages

Lorca, Federico García

chapter |2 pages

Lorrain, Jean

chapter |2 pages

Lot

chapter |2 pages

Loti, Pierre

chapter |2 pages

Louis XVIII

chapter |2 pages

Louÿs, Pierre-Félix

chapter |1 pages

Lowell, Amy

chapter |2 pages

Ludwig II

chapter |2 pages

Lully, Jean-Baptiste

chapter |2 pages

Lynes, George Platt

part |39 pages

M

chapter |2 pages

McAlmon, Robert

chapter |2 pages

Macedo, Francisco Ferraz de

chapter |2 pages

McKay, Claude

chapter |2 pages

Mackay, John Henry

chapter |2 pages

Maecenas, Gaius

chapter |2 pages

Magnus Eriksson

chapter |2 pages

Malmberg, Aino Emma Wilhelmiina

chapter |1 pages

Mammen, Jeanne

chapter |2 pages

Mann, Erika

chapter |3 pages

Mann, Klaus

chapter |3 pages

Mann, Thomas

chapter |1 pages

Marbod of Rennes

chapter |1 pages

Marées, Hans von

chapter |2 pages

Margherita d’Austria

chapter |3 pages

Marlowe, Christopher

chapter |1 pages

Martial

chapter |2 pages

Martin du Gard, Roger

chapter |2 pages

Massimi

chapter |1 pages

Mathebula, Nongoloza

chapter |3 pages

Mayne, Xavier

chapter |1 pages

Mead, Margaret

chapter |2 pages

Meleager

chapter |2 pages

Melville, Herman

chapter |1 pages

Messel, Oliver

chapter |2 pages

Mew, Charlotte Mary

chapter |3 pages

Michelangelo (Buonarroti)

chapter |3 pages

Mieli, Aldo

chapter |3 pages

Mistral, Gabriela

chapter |2 pages

Molina, Miguel de

chapter |2 pages

Montherlant, Henry de

chapter |1 pages

Moonlite, Captain

chapter |2 pages

Muret, Marc-Antoine

part |11 pages

N

chapter |1 pages

Nehemiah

chapter |2 pages

Nero

chapter |2 pages

Newman, John Henry

chapter |1 pages

Nichols, Beverley

chapter |2 pages

Nicolson, Sir Harold (George)

chapter |2 pages

Nietzsche, Friedrich

chapter |3 pages

Nijinsky, Vaslav

chapter |1 pages

Novello, Ivor

chapter |2 pages

Novo, Salvador

chapter |2 pages

Nugent, (Richard) Bruce

part |4 pages

O

chapter |1 pages

Ohlfsen, Dora

chapter |2 pages

Ottesen-Jensen, Elise

chapter |2 pages

Ovid

chapter |2 pages

Owen, Wilfred

part |25 pages

P

chapter |2 pages

Parnok, Sophia Yakovlevna

chapter |2 pages

Pater, Walter (Horatio)

chapter |2 pages

Paul, St

chapter |3 pages

Pessoa, Fernando

chapter |1 pages

Petersen, Clemens

chapter |2 pages

Petronius Arbiter

chapter |2 pages

Philippe IV le Bel

chapter |2 pages

Philips, Katherine

chapter |2 pages

Pico, Giovanni

chapter |3 pages

Platen, August Graf von

chapter |2 pages

Plato

chapter |1 pages

Plomer, William

chapter |2 pages

Pomponio-Leto, Giulio

chapter |3 pages

Porter, Cole

chapter |1 pages

Porter, William

chapter |2 pages

Powell (Brown), Evelyn

chapter |2 pages

Prados, Emilio

chapter |2 pages

Primavera, Giovan Leonardo

chapter |2 pages

Proust, Marcel

chapter |2 pages

Puttkamer, Marie Madeleine von

part |25 pages

R

chapter |2 pages

Rabelais, François

chapter |2 pages

Rapinett, Guglielmo

chapter |2 pages

‘Raucourt’

chapter |2 pages

Redl, Alfred Victor

chapter |2 pages

Reich, Wilhelm

chapter |2 pages

Reid, Forrest

chapter |2 pages

Reinhard, Joachim

chapter |2 pages

Rhodes, Cecil

chapter |2 pages

Ries, Leopold Abraham

chapter |2 pages

Rimbaud, Arthur

chapter |3 pages

Rocco, Antonio

chapter |1 pages

Roditi, Edouard

chapter |2 pages

Roellig, Ruth Margarete

chapter |3 pages

Röhm, Ernst

chapter |2 pages

Rolfe, Frederick William

chapter |2 pages

Roosevelt, Eleanor

chapter |2 pages

Rosai, Ottone

chapter |2 pages

Rosenmüller, Johann

chapter |1 pages

Ruth and Naomi

part |45 pages

S

chapter |2 pages

Sá-Carneiro, Mário de

chapter |2 pages

Sachs, Maurice

chapter |2 pages

Sackville-West, Vita

chapter |1 pages

Saint-Pavin, Denis Sanguin de

chapter |3 pages

Sappho of Lesbos

chapter |2 pages

Sargent, John Singer

chapter |1 pages

Sassoon, Siegfried (Louvain)

chapter |2 pages

Schoondermark, Jacobus

chapter |2 pages

Schopenhauer, Arthur

chapter |2 pages

Schorer, Squire Jacob Anton

chapter |2 pages

Schouten, Hubertus Johannes

chapter |2 pages

Scott, Sarah

chapter |2 pages

Sebastian, St

chapter |1 pages

Seneca

chapter |2 pages

Serge and Bacchus, SS

chapter |2 pages

Settembrini, Luigi

chapter |2 pages

Sgricci, Tommaso

chapter |3 pages

Shakespeare, William

chapter |1 pages

Sitwell, Osbert

chapter |2 pages

Sixtus IV

chapter |2 pages

Smyth, Dame Ethel

chapter |3 pages

Socrates

chapter |2 pages

Södergran, Edith Irene

chapter |1 pages

Sodoma, Il

chapter |2 pages

Solomon, Simeon

chapter |2 pages

Solon

chapter |2 pages

Somerset, Lord Arthur

chapter |2 pages

Spender, Sir Stephen (Harold)

chapter |2 pages

Stanislaw August II

chapter |2 pages

Stanley, Sir Henry Morton

chapter |3 pages

Stein, Gertrude

chapter |2 pages

Stiller, Mauritz

chapter |2 pages

Stoddard, Charles Warren

chapter |2 pages

Strachey, Lytton

chapter |2 pages

Straton of Sardis

chapter |2 pages

Strayhorn, Billy

chapter |2 pages

Strindberg, August

chapter |2 pages

Stuart, Henry

chapter |1 pages

Suetonius

chapter |2 pages

Symonds, John Addington

chapter |2 pages

Szymanowski, Karol

part |19 pages

T

chapter |1 pages

Tallemant des Réaux, Gédéon

chapter |2 pages

Tardieu, Auguste-Ambroise

chapter |3 pages

Tasso, Torquato

chapter |1 pages

Taylor, Bayard

chapter |2 pages

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

chapter |2 pages

Tchelitchev, Pavel

chapter |2 pages

Tennyson, Alfred

chapter |1 pages

Thalbitzer, Sophus

chapter |3 pages

Theocritus

chapter |1 pages

Theognis

chapter |3 pages

Thomson, Virgil

chapter |1 pages

Thorsell, Eric

chapter |2 pages

Thurman, Wallace

chapter |2 pages

Tiberius

chapter |2 pages

Tilden, William Taten

chapter |2 pages

Toklas, Alice B(abette)

chapter |1 pages

Trefusis, Violet

chapter |3 pages

Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna

chapter |2 pages

Tuke, Henry Scott

chapter |2 pages

Turing, Alan Mathison

part |4 pages

U

chapter |2 pages

Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich

chapter |3 pages

Umberto II

part |17 pages

V

chapter |2 pages

Valentino, Rudolph

chapter |1 pages

Van Vechten, Carl

chapter |3 pages

Varchi, Benedetto

chapter |2 pages

Vaughan, Charles John

chapter |1 pages

Vendôme, Louis-Joseph

chapter |3 pages

Verlaine, Paul

chapter |2 pages

Viau, Théophile de

chapter |2 pages

Villaurrutia, Xavier

chapter |2 pages

Villon, François

chapter |2 pages

Virgil

chapter |2 pages

Vivien, Renée

chapter |2 pages

Vizzani, Catterina

chapter |2 pages

Vladislas III of Varna

chapter |1 pages

Vock, Anna

chapter |2 pages

Voltaire

part |24 pages

W

chapter |1 pages

Waters, Ethel

chapter |1 pages

Wedekind, Frank

chapter |2 pages

Weininger, Otto

chapter |2 pages

Weirauch, Anna Elisabet

chapter |2 pages

Weiwha

chapter |2 pages

Welch, Denton

chapter |3 pages

Westermarck, Edward

chapter |2 pages

Wetterhoff, Adolf Fredrik

chapter |1 pages

Whale, James

chapter |3 pages

Whitman, Walt

chapter |2 pages

Wikner, Carl Pontus

chapter |3 pages

Wilde, Oscar

chapter |2 pages

William III

chapter |2 pages

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim

chapter |2 pages

Winsloe, Christa

chapter |2 pages

Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy

chapter |2 pages

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

chapter |2 pages

Woolf, Virginia

part |2 pages

X

chapter |2 pages

Xenophon

part |2 pages

Y

chapter |2 pages

Yourcenar, Marguerite

part |3 pages

Z

chapter |2 pages

Zahle, Vilhelmine