This history of male homosexuality in the West is embedded in the ups and downs of the great processes of social and political history.
There is no single, and therefore universal, history of homosexuality. This history has been constructed from an “integrationist” approach, which follows the ups and downs of homosexuality by inserting them into the great processes of social and political history, combining in a balanced way the analysis of practices, representations and discourses, interweaving multiple sources and alternating geographical and historical-ethnographic explorations and the history of concepts (theological-moral, philosophical, scientific) and images (plastic, literary, advertising).

The history of male homosexuality in the West has been organized around three major axes. Firstly, the study of the practices of control and persecution deployed by the various social institutions and historical stages. Secondly, the forms of resistance that aimed to create liveable spaces, a proper environment and eventually a subculture or a protest movement in each era. Finally, it is also about capturing the forms of identity and subjectivity formed in this agonizing relationship between the action of power and the challenges of individual freedom. The result is an ambitious work whose most strictly academic edges have been polished and which has sought the accessible language necessary for greater understanding.