num_pages: 288
description: Dear Boy is an anthology of gay love letters between illustrious men for almost 2,000 years. Correspondents include Marcus Aurelius, St. Anselm, Erasmus, Calvacanti, Michelangelo, Sir Phillip Sydney, King James I &amp; VI, Thomas Gray, von Kleist, Byron, Hans Christian Andersen, Melville, Whitman, Tchaikovsky, Wilde, Henry James, Frederick Wm Rolfe, Wilfred Owen, Hart Crane, T. E. Lawrence, Cocteau, Auden, Pasolini, Allen Ginsberg, Wm Burroughs, among others.
language: English
title: My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries
titlecomplete: My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries
genres: Historical, Queer, LGBT, Anthologies, Nonfiction, Gay, History
ratings_count: 38
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Anthologies/Nonfiction
publisher: Leyland Pubns