A bold and beautifully written quest for the queer in antiquity.

Tom Holland

This book is brilliant and mind-bending... My god, this book is needed. History has never seemed more alive, more vital, more dangerous, and more wonderful.

Russell T Davies

Illuminating and timely.

The Reverend Richard Coles

"An extremely compelling proposition which asks, with personal urgency, how a religion of love can also - somehow - end up as a religion of pain.”

Alain de Botton

This scintillating history shows how economic crises have led ancient and modern societies to demonize queer love. It could not be more timely.

Orlando Reade, author of What Is In Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost

Learned, nuanced, intelligent and fascinating, this is a vital new work of queer scholarship.

Patrick Ness, author of Release and The Rest of Us Just Live Here