The book by the famous sociologist and philosopher Professor I. S. Kon is dedicated to the phenomenon of same-sex love. From the point of view of biology, psychology, history, fiction and art, the author talks - erasing the boundaries of division into “us” and “them” - about people with alternative, non-standard sexual orientation in the modern world. This book is addressed to the widest audience and is designed to answer numerous questions facing gays and lesbians, their parents, teachers, friends, peers, and in general, the society in which we lived yesterday and live today. “Love of the Color of Heaven” - a book about a person. What does it mean for an individual to be “different,” especially if “otherness” is not skin color or religion, but love for an individual of the same sex? How do the people and society around them feel about this? Outstanding thinkers of the past at different times and each in their own way tried to answer these questions. “Love of the Color of Heaven” is an experience of open dialogue with the modern reader, in which the author talks about the phenomenon of same-sex love from the point of view of biology, psychology, sociology, history, art and the Internet.