Ackroyd connects us modern day queers up with our Celtic and Roman forbearers and all the benders, faggots, dykes,  trannies, queers, inverts, perverts, queens, Ganymede’s, sappho’s, cross dressers, gender twisters, fops, dandies, genderqueers and utterly baroque non binary beauties (and run of the mill) gay boys in between. Who were all after the same things, same sex love, identity on their own terms and sex and often going about it in surprisingly familiar ways.

A seriously good Queer read.  Validating, interesting and endlessly fascinating.