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The past is populated with famous gays and lesbians whose sexual behavior was open - or an open secret – during their lifetime. But historians and biographers today often shove these prominent homosexuals into a closet they never occupied while alive. When the correspondence and private diaries of famous homosexuals and the memoirs of eyewitnesses offer proof of their sexual orientation, reluctant biographers seem squeamish about the issue and discuss it only in passing. Some authors ignore the issue entirely. Erotic letters exchanged between women of the past are often dismissed as platonic rather than literal. To anyone but nervous historians, the sexually explicit correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and her lover, Lorena Hickok, looks like pre-cell phone sexting. (Excerpts from the letters appear in Chapter Two.) Now investigative journalist and author Frank Sanello opens the closet door on history and reveals the sex lives of Julius Caesar, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, King James I, King Louis XIV’s transvestite brother, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Adolf Hitler, and many more.
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Frank Sanello has written such critically acclaimed nonfiction books as The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another, which after its American release was published in China; The Knights Templars: God’s Warriors, the Devil’s Bankers; and Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America. Sanello cowrote Saving America: Solutions For a Nation in Crisis, with Adel N. Shenouda, M.D., professor emeritus of nephrology at the University of Tennessee. He recently finished coauthoring with Jayson A. Hymes, M.D., The Addict Next Door: The Epidemic of Prescription Painkiller Abuse and Other Contemporary Plagues. Sanello is currently writing Faith and Finance in the Renaissance: The Rise and Ruin of the Fugger Empire, a centuries-spanning epic about the influential family of bankers and patrons of the arts who were the German equivalent of their contemporaries, the Medici. The Autobiography of Frau Adolf Hitler is Sanello’s first novel. Upcoming books include Invisible People: History’s Unhidden Homosexuals, Soap: A History of How the World Cleaned Up Its Act, and Hitler’s Vicar: The Roman Catholic Priest Who Ruled Slovakia for Nazi Germany. A journalist for the past 35 years, Sanello has written articles for the Washington Post, the New York Times Syndicate, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Redbook, People, US Weekly, and Penthouse. Cosmo and other magazines have excerpted his books. Sanello was formerly a film reviewer for the Los Angeles Daily News and a business reporter for UPI. The author graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Chicago and earned a master’s degree from UCLA’s film school. He also holds a purple belt in Tae Kwon Do and has volunteered as a kickboxing instructor at AIDS Project Los Angeles where he taught self-defense classes for HIV/AIDS patients who had been AIDS- or fag-bashed. He has taught English at the University of Phoenix. Sanello lives in West Hollywood, California, and can be contacted at FSanello@AOL.com.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1463755163
- ISBN 13 9781463755164
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages258
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