

Into the left field of this situation John Boswell, a little-known Yale scholar of European history, dropped, if not a bomb, than certainly something of a hand grenade: his study CHRISTIANITY, SOCIAL TOLERANCE AND HOMOSEXUALITY: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century.


In 1980, the AIDS virus was being diagnosed and a holocaust in small was getting under way gay visibility was increasing and with it homophobia was getting a fresh lease on life.
