Paul Knobel is a poet and gay researcher who was born in Australia. He is the author of An Encyclopedia of Male Homosexual Poetry (2002) which covered the world and came to 1 million words. He is also the author of An Encyclopedia of Male Homosexual Art (2005) and other works including GAYFBA: gay fashion bibliography annotated (2019) and a short biography of Martin Smith, Australia's first gay historian. He is also the author of 7 volumes of poems .
A gay history of the world/ Human male homosexuality: a world history is the first gay male history of the world. The work is organized by country and each of the 193 countries has a section. The text is arranged alphabetically by country starting with Afghanistan. The longest country, Great Britain, is 67,000 words and the shortest country Djibouti is 307 words. The work comes to 740,000 words.