<div><i>A Queer Reader</i> is a rich and provocative collection of writings about male homosexuality--a gay version of <i>Bartlett's Quotations</i>, with authors ranging from Plato to Andy Warhol. Arranging entries chronologically and drawing on sources from the <i>Satyricon</i> to <i>Gay News</i>, from Michelangelo&amp;squo;s sonnets to a speech in the House of Lords, from sexually explicit graffiti found in Pompeii to a <i>Playboy</i> interview with David Bowie, Patrick Higgins uses novels, biographies, autobiographies, histories, and ephemera to present gay history as never before.</div>