When the LGBTQ+ magazine The Advocate in 2004 published its “100 Best Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century,” “Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality” by John Boswell was ranked No. 1, edging out Alfred Kinsey’s “Sexual Behavior Among Males.”
Since his death in 1994, the gay Yale historian’s significance continues to rise, both in academic and wider cultural circles. Jay Watkins, an assistant professor of history at the College of William and Mary is even writing a long overdue Boswell biography.
