How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization: The Time and Heroic Story of How Gay Men Shaped the Modern World

by Cathy Crimmins

Overview

A cultural history of the customs, fashions, and figures of gay life in the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries-and how they have changed us for the better.

How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization presents a broad yet incisive look at how an unusual "immigrant" group, homosexual men, has influenced mainstream American society and has, in many ways, become mainstream itself. From the way camp, irony, and the gay aesthetic have become part of our national sensibility to the undeniable effect the gay cognoscenti have had on media and the arts, Cathy Crimmins examines how gay men have changed the concepts of community, family, sex, and fashion.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101143698
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/02/2005
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	267 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Cathy Crimmins is the author of Where Is the Mango Princess?