Alexander the gay and the gloryhole that was Greece

Tougher, Shaun ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5261-4715 and Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-1964 2022. Alexander the gay and the gloryhole that was Greece. Stoneman, Richard, ed. A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture, Cambridge University Press, pp. 424-447. (10.1017/9781316711798.020)

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Abstract

Within contemporary Western gay communities, Alexander the Great is often championed as a hero and an inspirational figure – the ultimate high-status homosexual. This chapter explores the various ways in which he has been visualised within the gay community and its wider – more closeted – community. The chapter explores his literary image in the novels of Mary Renault, in stage musicals and pornography and in mainstream Hollywood cinema. The darker, anti-gay, reading of Alexander is also explored in the context of right-wing nationalism and the military.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	9781107167698
Last Modified:	30 Nov 2022 07:18
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/148477

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