BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY Compiled by Rictor Norton
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Updated 5 March 2005

Middle Eastern History

Daniel, Marc
"Arab civilisation and male love", trans. Winston Leyland, in Goldburg, Johnathon (ed.), Reclaiming Sodomy, London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 59-65. Originally published in Winston Leyland (ed.), Gay Roots (1991), pp. 33-75.
James, Liz (ed.)
Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium. Routledge, 1997.
Lacey, E. A. (translator)
The Delight of Hearts: Or, What You Will Not Find in Any Book. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1988.
Murray, Stephen O. and Roscoe, Will
Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature. New York University Press, 1997.
Roth, Norman
"Fawn of my delights - boy-love in Hebrew and Arabic verse", in Sex in the Middle Ages, New York, 1991, pp. 157-72.
Schmitt, Arno
Bio-Bibliography of Male-Male Sexuality and Eroticism in Muslim Societies. Berlin: Verlag Rosa Winkel, 1995.
Schmitt, Arno and Sofer, Yehoeda (eds)
Sexuality and Eroticism among Males in Moslem Societies. Haworth Press, 1991.
Murray, Stephen O. and Roscoe, Will (eds)
Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature. New York University Press, 1997.
Stern, Dr Bernhard
The Scented Garden, Anthropology of the Sex Life in the Levant, trans. David Berger. New York: American Ethnological Press, 1934. Information about the gay sultans.
Wright, J. W. and Rowson, Everett K. (eds)
Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature. Columbia University Press, 1997.

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