David M Halperin: 3 books

Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the...

"¿Por qué no intentas tratarme con el respeto con que merezco que me trates?" Espeta Joan Crawford (interpretada por Faye Dunaway) a su hija adoptiva antes de abalanzarse sobre ella hecha una furia. A través del estudio de este y otros momentos del acervo gay, Halperin presenta en este...

A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes—aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers—and in the social meaning of style.