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Who's a Pretty Boy Then?: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Gay Life in Pictures (Hardcover)

by James Gardiner (Author) "Leotard, of the Cirque Parisien, wearing the garment named after him, 1851 ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Serpent's Tail (15 Dec 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 185242513X
ISBN-13: 978-1852425135
Product Dimensions: 31 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 781,376 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This work comprises one man's personal and highly idiosyncratic view of gay history since the invention of the camera. Alongside the famous and infamous are images of "ordinary" gay men, taken at times that only friends and lovers would bother to record.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Uncovers decades of gay lives and loves, 24 Jul 2005

By	Mr. R. J. MacRae "jayhawk2000" (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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A lovely book, part history lesson and part scrapbook, which gathers together photos and clippings from 150 years of gay life. Some photos are only of anonymous men in intimate portraits, some are muscle mag fodder, whilst others are prime examples of Victorian erotica. As you finger through you see gay men like Alan Turing, Ivor Novello, Kenneth Williams, Anthony Perkins and Divine. Sprinkled in are icons like Judy Garland, Princess Di and Bette Davis though there is a definite British bias to the material. More often than not each photo only has the briefest identifying caption, though there are longer passages about landmark legal cases, plays and movies plus examples of polari. It is thorough (Quentin Crisp, Tom of Finland, Dirk Bogarde and even Soldiers in Skirts all make appearances) and will expose you to some new faces, but ultimately it's little more than a scrapbook. Lots of pretty pictures and the occasional caption means it's lovely to look at, but to really learn anything about the people featured here you'll have to do your research elsewhere.

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