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020			_a978-0-09-959294-5
100			_aAckroyd, Peter _4aut
245			_aQueer City _bGay London from the Romans to the present day
264			_aLondon _bVintage _c2018
300			_a272 Seiten
520			_aIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way – through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria (‘wolf dens’ or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure. Ackroyd takes us right into the hidden history of the city; from the notorious Normans to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early nineteenth century. He journeys through the coffee bars of sixties Soho to Gay Liberation, disco music and the horror of AIDS. Today, we live in an era of openness and tolerance and Queer London has become part of the new norm. Ackroyd tells us the hidden story of how it got there, celebrating its diversity, thrills and energy on the one hand; but reminding us of its very real terrors, dangers and risks on the other. After his mammoth, shamanic aria London: the Biography, the remarkable writer Peter Ackroyd has produced a nimble, uproarious pocket history of sex in his beloved metropolis Alasdair Lees Independent.
650			_aHomosexualität
650			_aSchwul
650			_aGeschichte
650			_aQueer
653			_aAIDS
700			_aPeter Ackroyd
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999			_c969 _d969