"These stories and illustrations offer an excellent way to acquaint young people (gay, straight, queer) with gay topics. What an amazing array of fascinating tales!"
— Gert Hekma, Chairman of Gay Studies, University of Amsterdam
"A very fine example of responsible popularization – presented in an accessible format, but with source notes for serious readers to follow up. Retelling the myths was absolutely the right thing to do – myths exist only in the individual versions of their tellers."
— James Lawrence Peter Butrica, Dept. of Classics, The Memorial University of Newfoundland
"I have had your book for over a month now and have been browsing my way through it. It is very beautiful with an excellent set up and choice of images. It is a theme also that has too often been suppressed."
— Carl A. P. Ruck, Boston University
“What a wonderful book! I suppose the simplest starting point for working out why this is so is with the translation _ not that I'm myself grecophone, but the various English versions give one a feel for the language behind, and in yours there is a delicate balance maintained between the form of the original, especially the adjectival rituals – “wine dark sea unharvested” would be a typical example if it were used – and natural forms of our own era (“divvied up” is a beauty). And I sense – maybe because of this care – your language retains the power that other translations lose.
Objectively, no one could dispute the truth of titling the book "The Gay Greek Myths," and yet when reading, the quality of gayness does not in any way obtrude – speaking for myself, I ended up hardly noticing. Yes of course the writing is about sexuality in relationships, but it presents as a spectrum, made up of all the possible colours, not of one or another to the exclusion of differences. As one would hope that the experience of sex in the real world might ideally be. I suppose it's that that would convince me that Lovers' Legends is immensely valuable in a pedagogic setting, and if I had any current teenagers to guide in their reading, that is where I would point them. And for the issues specifically, what better for their attention than your [brilliantly] interwoven debate between Lycinus and Theomnestus, with Charicles and Callicratidas brought in?”
— Philip Stokes, The Nottingham Trent University
