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"How to be Queer is an elegantly presented book, evoking thoughtful consideration of queerness and sexuality. With a constant return to modernity . . . a simple point is enforced; we are not all that different from the ancient world . . . [it] makes for a delightful reading experience, and can be enjoyed by anybody, no matter their identity."—Jaiden Griffin, Redbrick

“A wonderful, wise, witty, and joyful survey of queerness in the ancient world that reminds us how—two thousand years and more before us—our ancestors often had clearer, less guilt-ridden, confused, prurient, and prudish attitudes to the rainbow of sexualities that we wrongly think unique to our age. An absolute must-read!”—Stephen Fry

“This valuable and timely collection provides an engaging and approachable introduction to queer sexuality in ancient Greece. With accessible translations of the key texts, Sarah Nooter bridges past and present to offer up something like a self-help version of classical texts for modern sexual life. Timely and compelling, How to Be Queer demonstrates the historical rootedness of what’s often touted as a modern phenomenon.”—Emily Hauser, author of How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature

“Sarah Nooter’s How to Be Queer is a magnificent celebration of queer love and sexuality in all its complicated, wondrous forms. It also acts as a kind of time and ideas machine, allowing queer readers to capture a reflection of themselves in the ancient world, deliciously blurring and loosening time and identity boundaries.”—Luke Edward Hall, illustrator of 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World