this is an excellant text- it reviews everything christian 500 years ago-by definition it not only covers gay history, but medieval history and jewish history- it is exhaustingly complete and though it makes errors and has language conceits that are truly almost obnoxious-this writer refuses to translate classical greek for example-of course we all know classical greek-you will therefor miss many of his points unless of course you understand classical greek as well. this snobbery level is all over the text-but you will grow to overlook them as you see what it offers. buy the book and learn something different.