From the epic of Gilgamesh. The coming of Enkidu ; The death of Enkidu ; The lament of Gilgamesh for Enkidu / English version by N.K. Sandars -- The friendship of David and Jonathan : I Samuel 17:55-58 and 18:1-4 -- David's lament for Jonathan : 2 Samuel 1:17-27.
From the Iliad, book 20 / Homer ; translated by E.V. Rieu -- From the Iliad, books 18 and 23. Achilles' lament and the funeral of Patroclus ; Achilles' dream / Homer ; translated by E.V. Rieu -- The history of Harmodius and Aristogeiton / Thucydides ; translated by Benjamin Jowett -- From Amores / Lucian ; translated by W.J. Baylis -- From the life of Pelopidas / Plutarch ; translated by Edward Carpenter -- From Symposium. The speech of Phaedrus ; The speech of Pausanias ; The speech of Aristophanes ; The dialogue of Socrates and Diotima / Plato ; translated by Walter Hamilton -- The love of boys / Solon ; translated by John Addington Symonds -- Fragment 17 / Anacreon of Teos ; translated by Eugene O'Connor -- Elegy 2 / Anacreon of Teos ; translated by Peter Bing and Rip Cohen -- Frament 360 / Anacreon of Teos ; translated by Alfred Corn -- from The "second books" of Theognis / Theognis ; translated by Peter Bing and Rip Cohen -- To Theoxenos / Pindar ; translated by John Addington Symonds -- Fragment 652 / Euripedes ; translated by John Addington Symonds -- Idyll / Theocritus ; translated by W. Douglas P. HIll -- From the Greek anthology / translated by Daryl Hine ; with additional versions by Byrne Fone -- From the Epistles. Letter 19 : to a boy who is a prostitute ; Letter 57 : to a boy / Philostratus ; translated by Allen Rogers Benner and Francis Forbes -- From the Ephesiaca. Hippothoos and Hyperanthes / Xenophon of Ephesus ; translated by Moses Hadas -- From affairs of the heart. The two types of love / (Pseudo) Lucian ; translated by M.D. McLeod -- From Dionysiaca. Dionysus and Ampelos ; Carpos and Calamos / Nonnus ; translated by W.H.D. Rouse.
To Aurelius and Furius (no. 16) / Catullus ; translated by Eugene O'Connor -- To Aurelius (no. 21) / Catullus ; translated by Eugene O'Connor -- To Juventius (no. 99) / Catullus ; translated by Frank O. Copley -- Eclogue 2 : the lament of Corydon for his faithless Alexis / Virgil ; English version by Byrne Fone -- from Metamorphoses. Zeus and Ganymede ; Apollo and Hyacinthus / Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries -- From The satyricon / Petronius ; translation attributed to Oscar Wilde -- Epigrams / Martial -- from Satire / Juvenal ; translated by Peter Green.
The story of Sodom : Genesis 18-19 -- The holiness code : Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13 -- from the Epistles of St. Paul. Romans 1:26-27 ; I Corinthians 6:9-10 -- from De Abrahamo / Philo Judaeus ; translated by F.H. Colson -- Clement of Alexandria -- The Theodosian code -- The code of Justinian. Novella 77 ; Novella 141 -- Henry I : Council of London -- Edward I : Britton.
To Ausonius / Paulinus of Nola ; translated by Jack Lindsay -- To Grimold, Abbot of St. Gall / Hrabanus Maurus ; translated by Helen Waddell -- Dearest, you come suddenly and suddenly you depart / Walafrid Strabo ; translated by John Boswell -- When the splendor of the moon / Walafrid Strabo ; translated by Helen Waddell -- The unyielding youth / Marbod of Rennes ; translated by John Boswell -- Your appearance is pleasing / Baudri of Bourgueil ; translated by Thomas Stehling -- To an English boy / Hilary ; translated by John Boswell -- Hebe and Ganymede / Ganymede ; translated by John Boswell -- from The Leiden manuscript. The wise rejoice with Ganymede / translated by John Boswell -- from Lancelot-Grail. Part II / translated by Carleton W. Carroll -- from Lancelot-Grail. Part III / translated by Samuel N. Rosenberg -- The story of Amis and Amile / translated by Walter Pater.
from Commentarium in Platonis convivium. Comentary on Plato's symposium / Marsilio Ficino ; translated by Sears Jayne -- from Letters to Giovanni Cavalcanti written between 1474 and 1492 / Marsilio Ficino ; translated by members of the Language Department of the School of Economics and Science, London -- Lanza / Filippo Scarlatti ; translated by James J. Wilhelm -- Greek epigrams / Angelo Poliziano ; translated by James J. Wilhelm -- from Favola di Orfeo / Angelo Poliziano ; translated by Elizabeth Basset Welles -- Three poems / Cecco Nuccoli ; translated by Jill Claretta Robbins -- Two poems / Marino Ceccoli ; translated by Jill Claretta Robbins -- Advice to Paulinus ; A love song for Marcus ; On happiness / Pacifico Massimi ; translated by James J. Wilhelm -- Early poems / Michelangelo Buonarroti ; translated by James M. Saslow -- Letter to Tommaso de'Cavalieri / Michelangelo Buonarroti ; translated by John Addington Symonds -- Poems to Tommaso de'Cavalieri / Michelangelo Buonarroti ; translated by James M. Saslow -- [Untitled poem] / Benedetto Varchi ; translated by James J. Wilhelm -- Two letters to Luca Scalabrino / Torquato Tasso ; translated by Jill Claretta Robbins -- [Untitled poem] / Roman Pasquinades ; translated by James J. Wilhelm -- from L'Alcibiade fanciullo a scola. Alcibiades in school / Antonio Rocco ; translated by Michael Taylor -- from L'Alcibiade fanciullo a scola / Antonio Rocco ; translated by Jill Claretta Robbins.
The law of 25 / Henry VIII -- from The shepheardes calendar / Edmund Spenser -- "Glosse" on Hobbinol by E.K. / Edmund Spenser -- The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser -- from Piers Gaveston / Michael Drayton -- from Dido, Queen of Carthage ; from Edward II ; from Hero and Leander / Christopher Marlowe -- from The affectionate shephearde ; from Cynthia, with certaine sonnets / Richard Barnfeld -- from Sonnets (1609) / William Shakespeare.
from The third part of the Institutes of the laws of England (1628). The law of buggery, or sodomy / Sir Edward Coke -- from Fire and brimstone, or, The destruction of Sodom / George Lesly -- from Roderick random / Tobias Smollett -- from Memoirs of a woman of pleasure / John Cleland -- from A complete and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster / Ned Ward -- from The trying and pillorying of the Vere Street Club.
from On paederasty / Jeremy Bentham -- The Cornelian ; To Thyrza ; One struggle more, and I am free ; If sometimes in the haunts of men ; On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year ; Love and death ; Last words on Greece / George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- from Don Leon / Anonymous.
from La philosophie dans le boudoir. Manners / Donatien Alphonse François Sade, Comte de Sade (Marquis de Sade) ; translated by Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver -- from Les enfans de Sodome á l'Assemblée Nationale. Sodom / Anonymous ; translated by Gina Fisch-Freedman.
from Der eros. Eros, or On love / Heinrich Zschokke ; translated by Carl Skoggaard -- from Eros : Die Mannerliebe der Griechen = The manly love of the greeks / Heinrich Hoessli ; translated by Carl Skoggaard-- from Forschungen über das Rätsel der mannmännlichen Liebe / Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ; translated by Michael A. Lombardi-Nash -- Homosexuality / K.M. Kertbeny ; translated by Michael Lombardi-Nash.
The law (1861) : 24 and 25 Victoria, C. 100 -- from In memoriam A.H.H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- from Ionica. Desiderato ; Deteriora ; Parting / William Johnson Cory -- What cannot be / John Addington Symonds -- from Eudiades / John Addington Symonds -- from Love and death : a symphony / John Addington Symonds -- Midnight at Baiae / John Addington Symonds -- Epithalamion / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- from Towards democracy. Through the long night ; To a stranger ; Summer heat / Edward Carpenter -- A Palaestral study ; An idler listening to Socrates discussing philosophy with his boy-friends / Edward Cracroft Lefroy -- from In fancy dress. Rose leaves when the rose is dead ; The world well lost IV ; The world well lost XVIII / Marc André Raffalovich -- from It is thyself. Sonnet CXX / Marc André Raffalovich -- Two loves / Lord Alfred Douglas -- from A book of chains. With whom, then, should I sleep? / George Ives -- from White stains. Dedicace ; A ballad of passive paederasty ; Go into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in ; Rondels / Aleister Crowley.
from A problem in modern ethics / John Addington Symonds -- from Homogenic love / Edward Carpenter -- Teleny / attributed to Oscar Wilde and others -- from The priest and the acolyte / John Francis Bloxam -- from Sexual inversion / Havelock Ellis ; John Addington Symonds.
The law : the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 -- Wasted days / Oscar Wilde -- from Eleutheria. Helas ; from Rosa mystica. Vita Nuova / Oscar Wilde -- Letters from Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas / Oscar Wilde -- A defense of Uranian love : from the transcripts of the second trial / Oscar Wilde -- De profundis / Oscar Wilde.
from A Shropshire lad. Look not in my eyes ; If truth in hearts that perish ; Shot? so quick / A.E. Housman -- from Last poems. The laws of God / A.E. Housman -- from More poems : 1936, posthumous. Shake hands, we never shall be friends ; Because I liked you better / A.E. Housman -- from Additional poems : included in Collected poems, 1940. He would not stay for me ; Oh who is that young sinner / A.E. Housman -- from My father and myself / J.R. Ackerley -- from Maurice ; from Forster's terminal note to Maurice / E.M. Forster -- To Eros ; Music ; Anthem for a doomed youth ; To my friend : with an identity disc / Wifrid Owen -- Prologue to Women in love / D.H. Lawrence -- from Christopher and his kind / Christopher Isherwood -- Abrupt and charming mover ; To T.A.R.H. / Stephen Spender -- from Songs of mankind. Song of my soul / Ralph Nicholas Chubb -- from The heavenly cupid. Transfiguration / Ralph Nicholas Chubb -- Legend ; Song IX : funeral blues ; from Three posthumous poems. Glad ; Aubade ; Minnelied / W.H. Auden.
from Les Stupra. Our assholes are different = Nos fesses ne son pas les leurs / Arthur Rimbaud ; translated by Paul Schmidt -- Sonnet to the asshole = Le sonnet du trou du cul ; from Hombres. Balanide II ; Mille e tre / Paul Verlaine ; translated by Alan Stone -- from À la recherche du temps perdu / Marcel Proust -- from Sodome et Gomorrhe I / Marcel Proust ; translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin -- from Corydon / André Gide ; translated by Richard Howard -- from The journals / André Gide ; translated by Justin O'Brien -- Nighttime / René Crevel ; translated by Michael Taylor -- from Le livre blanc / Jean Cocteau ; translated by Margaret Crosland -- The man condemned to death = Le condammé à mort / Jean Genet ; translated by David Fisher and Guy Wernham -- from Our lady of the flowers = Notre-dame des fleurs / Jean Genet ; translated by Bernard Frechtman.
from The ethical-political significance of Lieblingminne / Elisar von Kupffer ; translated by Hubert Kennedy -- Into the future / Gotamo ; translated by Hubert Kennedy -- The nameless love ; Tomorrow ; The nameless love : a creed / John Henry Mackay ; translated by Hubert Kennedy -- from Memoir for the friends and contributors of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in the name of the Secession of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee / Benedict Friedlander ; translated by Hubert Kennedy.
Imitation of the Arabic ; On the statue of a player at Svaika / Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin ; translated by Michael Green -- The fourth Rome / Nikolay Klyuev ; translated by Simon Karlinsky -- Yesterday's rain ; from Prayers for the dead. Esenin's suicide note / Sergei Esenin ; translated by Simion Karlinsky -- from Alexandrian songs / Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin ; translated by Michael Green -- from Nets. Ah, those lips, kissed by so many ; At the party / Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin ; translated by Simon Karlinsky -- from Clay doves. Nine delightful birthmarks / Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin ; translated by Simon Karlinsky.
At the cafe door ; One night ; When they come alive ; In the street ; Passing through ; Comes to rest ; Their beginning ; In despair / Constantine Cavafy ; translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.
Seven poems / Sandro Penna ; translated by John McRae.
Nine poems / Luis Cernuda ; translated by Rick Lipinski -- from The young sailor and other poems. I'll tell you how you were born ; The shadow / Luis Cernuda -- from The chimera's wasteland. For two voices ; That which is enough for love / Luis Cernuda -- from Poems for a body. The lover digresses / Luis Cernuda -- from Where oblivion dwells. Four poems / Luis Cernuda -- from Sonetos del amor oscuro. Night of sleepless love ; Sonnet of sweet weeping ; The poet asks his love to write to him ; The poet speaks with love by telephone ; The poet asks his love about the enchanted city of Cuenca ; Untitled : Ah secret voice of dark love ; The poet speaks the truth / Federico García Lorca ; translated by David William Foster.
from O Bom-Crioulo / Adolfo Caminha ; translated by Arhtur Hughes -- from Song of an impossible blue. Song of the fleeting day / Porfirio Barba-Jacob ; translated by Jeff Bingham and Juan Antonio Serna Servin -- Two poems. They and I ; Nocturnal sea / Xavier Villaurrutia ; translated by Fanny Arango-Ramos and William Keeth -- from A sinner's guidebook = Guia de pecadores / Eduardo Gudino Keifer ; translated by Ronald Christ and Gregory Kolovakos -- El amante de las torturas = The torture lover / Julian del Casal ; translated by David William Foster -- Two poems. Nocturne and elegy ; Of another fashion / Emilio Ballagas ; translated by Fanny Arango-Ramos and William Keeth -- from Paradiso / José Lezama Lima ; translated by Gregory Rabassa.
Sympathy / Henry David Thoreau -- Friendship ; from Friendship / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from Notebook / Walt Whitman -- Leaves of grass. from Song of myself ; from Notebook. Notebooks : adhesiveness / Walt Whitman -- Leaves of grass. Organic equality : from a letter from Whitman to Emerson / Walt Whitman -- from Poem of the road ; from Notebooks. Live-oak with moss / Walt Whitman -- Leaves of grass. from Proto-leaf ; from Calamus ; from Drum-taps / Walt Whitman -- Leaves of grass. Calamus 5 ; from Democratic vistas ; from Preface to Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman.
from Hylas ; from Poems of the Orient. A paean to the dawn ; To a Persian boy in the bazaar at Smyrna ; from The poet's journal. On the headland ; Love returned / Bayard Taylor -- Correspondence between Taylor and Walt Whitman -- from Joseph and his friend / Bayard Taylor -- Correspondence between Stoddard and Walt Whitman ; from South Sea Idyls / Charles Warren Stoddard -- from A letter to Havelock Ellis / Professr X [James mills Peirce] -- from Imre ; from The intersexes / Xavier Mayne [Edward Prime-Stevenson].
from Autobiography of an androgyne ; from The female impersonators / Earl Lind (Ralph Werther / Jennie June) -- Miss Knight / Robert McAlmon -- Smoke, lilies and jade / Bruce Nugent -- from A scarlet pansy / Robert Scully -- from The young and the evil / Charle Henri Ford and Parker Tyler.
Morn's recompense / Clement Andrews -- The mess boy / Sydney Wilmer -- De puerorum osculis / Giles de Gillies -- Manly love / Donald Malloch -- C33 ; Modern craft ; Episode of hands ; Voyages / Hart Crane -- from Early poems. I am a most fleshly man ; from The opening of the field. This place rumord to have been Sodom ; from Bending the bow. The torso / Robert Duncan -- Pages from an abandoned journal / Gore Vidal -- from The homosexual in America / Donald Webster Cory [Edward Sagarin] -- Lebanon ; Homosexuality / Fran O'Hara -- A supermarket in California ; Chances R ; Please master / Allen Ginsberg -- A poem for cocksuckers / John Wieners -- from Naked lunch / William Burroughs -- from City of night / John Rechy -- Pornographic poem / John Giorno -- Faint honey ; Do you wonder why I am sleepy ; From rivers, and from the earth itself / James Purdy.
Gay love and the movies / Ralph Pomeroy -- The gay poet ; Explanation / William Barber -- Only silly faggots know ; I have this vision of madness / Perry Brass -- I'm not a man / Harold Norse -- Street instructions at the crotch / Edward Field -- Surgery / Kenneth Pitchford -- After hearing heterosexual poets in October 1974 : what it seems like to write a male homosexual love poem now / Joseph Cady -- I remember / Joe Brainard.
Here is the queen-- / Adrian Brooks -- The fairies are dancing all over the world / Michael Rumaker -- Billie's blues ; To Hermes / Alfred Corn -- Fag art ; Last night at the Flamingo / John Iozia -- from Dancer from the dance / Andrew Holleran -- Getting your rocks off / Melvin Dixon -- Christopher Street 1979 / Walter Holland.
Power of one ; Some of us wear pink triangles / Walta Borawski -- The political vocabulary of homosexulaity / Edmund White -- Dream of the artfairy / Carl Morse -- Curing homosexuality / Jim Everhard -- Guilt, desire and love / James Baldwin.
Lament ; Terminal ; The missing ; In the post office / Thom Gunn -- A journal of the plague years / Walter Holland -- How to watch your brother die / Michael Lassell -- Apart from you / Daryl Hine.
Better days ; Cordon Negro / Essex Hemphill -- Talking to Jim / Walta Borawski -- The worst of it / Craig Reynolds -- Hometown / Salih Michael Fisher -- Names and sorrows / D. Rubin Green -- Prescription ; Waiting / Donald Woods -- Heart & soul / Assotto Saint -- There isn't any death / Perry Brass.
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