Just finished a new book Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World (Yale University Press) by Gregory Woods, professor emeritus at Nottingham Trent University.
A scholarly work (81 of its 421 pages are devoted to notes, bibliography and index), it's written in a breezy and entertaining style. It's a Tour de force of early gay travel destinations throughout southern Europe and north Africa. Born in Cairo, he has a keen appreciation of the usual places and rounds up the usual suspects, mostly noted authors and men and women of letters.
It also rewards the reader with a wealth of titles worth pursuing.
Have to confess that I picked it off the book rack primarily based on "Homintern," the handle of a once prolific poster on the Thai boards who may or may not still be with us.
Homintern
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Re: Homintern
On Wikipedia there is an interesting page on the term 'homintern'. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homintern
But 'our' Homintern lived on Sawatdee for years ... 'homintern' being his second incarnation, the first being 'The Colonel'. (I'm not sure if he ever posted on this message board, but he had a quite interesting blog which tended to be more along the serious and contemplative vein.)
As far as I'm concerned he died a number of years ago. Many, the vast majority in fact, totally disagree with that, but no actual proof one way or the other has ever cropped up.
But 'our' Homintern lived on Sawatdee for years ... 'homintern' being his second incarnation, the first being 'The Colonel'. (I'm not sure if he ever posted on this message board, but he had a quite interesting blog which tended to be more along the serious and contemplative vein.)
As far as I'm concerned he died a number of years ago. Many, the vast majority in fact, totally disagree with that, but no actual proof one way or the other has ever cropped up.