The first full-scale account of gay male literature. Impressive in that it covers everything from the end of the twentieth century to the classics of ancient Greece. Since modernism and post-modernism have emerged, it is helpful to take a retrospective look at the body of work written by and about gay men. ( )

Comprehensive but muddled and his sweep too wide in some places. Good for peering into some abandoned closets in the male homosexual past, but surprisingly weak in its presentation and arguments. ( )