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Gay Historian Louis Crompton Dies

Historian Louis Crompton, whose books include the scholarly and critically praised 2003 book "Homosexuality and Civilization," has died at age 84.

A July 19 obituary at The San Francisco Chronicle outlined the scholar’s life: born in 1925 in Ontario, Crompton had a long and varied career in academic life, as a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia and then a professor of English at two universities, Toronto and Nebraska at Lincoln.

Crompton was an early scholar of the history of homosexuality in various civilizations, documenting that civilizations that stigmatize gays and same-sex affection are not, as one often hears, commonplace; to the contrary, gay individuals were celebrated not only in Greece and Rome of antiquity, but also in China and Japan, and even in Europe, before Christianity deemed gays to be "sinful."
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