The discussion of homosexuality over so huge an area as the Mediterranean means draconian choices, but I've set out to fully cover the past and the present, from Gilgamesh to Caesar, from Gloeden's Taormina nude-boy models to Truman Capote and his Sicillian hustlers, from the Egypt of the pharaohs to the homosexual village of Egyptian Siwa, home of the Oracle dear to Alexander the Great. We 'll honor thre love of David for Jonathan and discover the most pro-gay city in the world, Tel-Aviv, as well as the Morocco of Pauk Bowles and Gore Vidal, the Capri of Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene, Malta and its Knights, the Templars on Rhodes and Richard Coeur de Lion begore the gates of Jerusalem. We 'll go to the Peloponnese, homeland of the veryfirst homoerotic act of love between a boy and a godm that of Hyacinth and Apollo, and we'll learn the origin of the Janissaries and the amourous exploits of Persian Cyrus the Younger. We'll visit today's Venice, and see what's going on, sexually, in twenty-first century Rome. Our trek will take an unexpected turn in Myconos, a homosexual paradise I'm more than familiar with. The subjects listed in the Contents are not vignettes, they are the detailed essentials -- every major event, every anecdote -- of what has made the Mediterranean the world's past and present prime source of homosexual adventure and pleasure.