★★★★★
352 pages • Bloomsbury • April 12, 2012 [PB]

Sad and fatalistic, yet ultimately satisfying and strangely comforting, the tragic love story of Achilles and Patroclus is in Madeline Miller’s hands a life-affirming one.

“When the long-postponed and hoped-for moment arrives, just after Achilles’ sixteenth birthday, the release of tension is palpable. But one is also acutely aware that this is to be a fateful moment, and that the die, once cast, will irrevocably shape the rest of their lives.”

Part 1: From The First Written Words About Homosexuality to Alexander the Great.

The first part of the series A Queer History that looks back to Early Greece and forward to the way we live now.

“In Early and Classical Greece, homosexuality was part of the culture. The following is a snapshot of that world, and a snapshot of the fragments that are left of it.”

Polari Facts looks at the idea of history.

To mark the end of LGBT History Month, Polari Facts looks at how Hollywood and history are more compatible than one may think.

History does not mean his story. The etymology, from the Ancient Greek, ἱστορία – hístōr – means inquiry, knowledge from inquiry, or judge. Ok, let’s just move on now, shall we?