This collection of fun and witty essays provides insight into the major social issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community today. It will build your confidence in having those complicated conversations you missed out on as teen, like:

• What is section 28?

• Can anyone catch AIDS?

• Why did Donna Summer go disco?

With any other culture you are shown the way by your family and peers who are part of that culture and immerse you in it. With queer culture, often times, people don’t have that. Or, when they do, they are already adults and missed out on those key learning stages. As such, it can be difficult to understand gay culture and know how to learn about big topics like Stonewall and gay blood donation.

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Unlike dry and humourless history books, this book is infused with personal stories and pop culture references. Forget descriptions for dummies; this is history for huns.

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Homo History is a fun and engaging blaze through the main issues affecting the queer community today; and how we got here. Although light in tone it doesn’t shy away from tackling important issues; such as gay body dysmorphia and conversion therapy. It will help you understand yourself, and manage your own feelings, whilst also giving you the juicy stories on the first gay tv kiss or why Ellen Degeneres got sacked from her tv show.

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This book celebrates queer figures and allies with profiles on known (and not yet known) celebrities such as Alan Turning, Ethel Smyth, April Ashley and Madonna, highlighting the huge progress the community has made in the past 100 years and giving you the hidden details you've overlooked.

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READER REVIEWS

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"A great book which is a perfect mix of funny, sad, interesting and devastating. I learned things about all kinds of things (including best biscuits after blood donation) and laughed out loud a lot. I also spent a lot of time reflecting. Definitely read this book"  Amazon reader

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"Funny and poignant. As someone who has had many years of my own questioning and only recently started embracing myself as the B in LGBTQ+, I’ve been acutely aware of how little I concretely know about queer history. In my efforts to fill the ignorance gap, I’m glad I started here. Twitchen uses humour, anecdotes and cold hard stats to refute a lot of negative discourse and stereotypes, all while making homage to some important figures. In addition, Twitchen’s account of coming to terms with his own sexuality against the backdrop of Christian guilt and virtually only heteronormative exposure was particularly relatable. While this book was fairly UK-centered, it was a relatively light and easy intro to a hugely important subject matter." GoodReads

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