num_pages: 384
description: A Queer Reader is a rich and provocative collection of writings about male homosexualitya gay version of Bartletts Quotations  with authors ranging from Plato to Andy Warhol. Arranging entries chronologically and drawing on sources from the Satyricon to Gay News  from Michelangelo&amp;squo;s sonnets to a speech in the House of Lords from sexually explicit graffiti found in Pompeii to a Playboy interview with David Bowie Patrick Higgins uses novels biographies autobiographies histories and ephemera to present gay history as never before.
language: English
title: A Queer Reader
publisher: The New Press