Historia de la homosexualidad masculina en Occidente

There is no unitary and, therefore, universal history of homosexuality. This history has been built from an "integrationist" approach, which follows the vicissitudes of homosexuality by inserting them into the great processes of social and political history, combining in a balanced way the analysis of practices, representations and discourses, intersecting multiple sources and alternating geographic and historical-ethnographic explorations and the history of concepts (theological-moral, philosophical, scientific) and images (plastic, literary, advertising). The history of male homosexuality in the West has been organized around three main axes. In the first place, the study of the practices of control and persecution deployed by the various social institutions and historical stages. Second, the forms of resistance that aimed to create livable spaces, their own medium and eventually a subculture or a protest movement in each era. Finally, it is also about capturing the forms of identity, of subjectivity formed in this agonizing relationship between the action of power and the challenges of individual freedom. The result is an ambitious work whose most strictly academic edges have been polished and which has sought the accessible language necessary for greater understanding.