Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
by:
Peter Ackroyd (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780701188818 (0701188812)
Publish date: 2017
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Pages no: 262
Edition language: English
Peter Ackroyd has written many books about London and knows his city. In this he keeps himself at arms length except where he's describing the experience of AIDS and then I discovered (and wasn't surprised) that he nursed his own partner through it . This book explores mostly the past but the consta...
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley One of my closest friends is a gay man who is twenty plus years older than me. Most days, we take a walk though the local cemetery, The Woodlands (where Eakins and Stockton are buried among others). Early on in our ritual, we noticed a headstone for ...