Homophobia
Subtitle: a history
By: Byrne Fone.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Homophobia; Homosexuality -- History
Description: "Byrne Fone chronicles the evolution of homophobia through the centuries. Delving into literary sources as diverse as Greek philosophy, Elizabethan poetry, the Bible, and the Victorian novel, as well as historical texts and propaganda from the French Revolution to the Moral Majority, Fone finds that same-sex desire has always been the object of legal, social, and religious persecution."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.