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A fascinating, throbbing history that asks the most urgent of contemporary questions: what does paradise look like, and who does it exclude? -- Olivia Laing, author of Crudo

A fine account of an important place in gay cultural history. -- Booklist Readers of all stripes will appreciate this fast-paced general interest title. -- Library Journal Vibrant...uniquely insightful and colorful cultural history...An illuminating, well-written history of a unique place. -- Kirkus Reviews A fascinating, throbbing history that asks the most urgent of contemporary questions: what does paradise look like, and who does it exclude? -- Olivia Laing, author of Crudo

A fascinating, throbbing history that asks the most urgent of contemporary questions: what does paradise look like, and who does it exclude? -- Olivia Laing, award-winning author

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Jack Parlett is a writer, poet, and professor. He completed a PhD at Cambridge University on gay cruising in New York poetry, and now holds a Junior Research Fellowship in English at University College, Oxford, where he also teaches literary theory and modern American literature. His poems have appeared in Hotel, Blackbox Manifold, and the BFI Flare zine, and his essays have appeared in Poetry London, the Cambridge Humanities Review, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. He lives in London. Joe Jameson trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has narrated over a hundred audiobooks, including titles by Gillian Slovo, Bear Grylls, Malorie Blackman, and Susan Hill, as well as The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff. He also works extensively in theater and television.

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