{"product_id":"9780099592945","title":"Queer City : Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Ackroyd, Peter \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 24\/05\/2018,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 272 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099592945,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts’ Simon Callow, GuardianIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way – through the history and experiences of its gay population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAckroyd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697720590380,"sku":"9780099592945","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780099592945.jpg?v=1722600734","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/9780099592945","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}