A review by winterlelie
A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Around the World by R.B. Parkinson

3.0

The book is a nice introduction to a queer interpretation of art, but that bothered me as well about it: the niceness. The book works so hard not to offend anyone by almost apologising for the subject matter. Writing about queer art is to take a stand: we queer people have always been here, despite the collective effort to erase us from the history books and museums. A book trying to right this wrong shouldn't be apologetic about it.