Rediscovering gay history : archetypes of gay love in Christian history

John Boswell

"In 1982, Boswell was invited to present the Fifth Michael Harding Memorial Address, named for the founder of the Gay Christian Movement, and on this occasion he elaborated on the idea of monasticism as the seedbed for new expressions of male-male affection. This gave him the opportunity to speak for the first time in public about his new research on brotherly unions. The lecture is a remarkable document, as it shows Boswell cautiosly juggling his identities as a gay man and as a church-going Catholic."--[from: Rapp, C., Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Oxford: Oxford Uni. Press, 2015, p.42)