ABSTRACT
Henning Bech is Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Among
his English language publications are When Men Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity (1997:
Cambridge: Polity Press; and Chicago: University of Chicago Press) and ‘‘Report From A
Rotten State: ‘Marriage’ and ‘Homosexuality’ in ‘Denmark’’’, in K. Plummer (ed.), Modern
Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences (1992: London and New York:
Routledge).
