Who are they - the types who served as negative characters for the crowd of days long past? Who was condemned by moralists, accused of all mortal sins, persecuted and branded? Who has been repeatedly reviled and branded by demagogues and politicians? Of course, those who have become heroes of the current tolerant and highly tolerant years. This grandiose, epoch-making, imperishable work is dedicated to outstanding figures of non-traditional culture. Or those who had an unconventional personal life. More precisely, not quite ordinary sexual preferences. Of course, they all carefully hid their unconventionality from those around them, which is why it faded into the background. However, she was always invisibly present next to them, although she was never particularly advertised. However, now the time has come to tear off the masks and in this book you will learn about what in the old days was whispered about only by “evil tongues”, which sometimes really were “more terrible than a pistol.”