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THE GAY MARRIAG OF A NETEENTH-CENTURY PRISON SHIP

This went on to provi the legal amework through which same-sex upl uld accs the benefs, forts, and maral stat already available to others wh legally regnised before this legal amework was extend to clu them, people who we might now regnise as gay, lbian, or bisexual had long been -optg and adaptg the tradns and language of marriage for their own relatnships.

NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE

”On the podst | Angela Steile explor the life of 19th-century gay pneer Anne ListerIf Chute and Whhed manipulated the law to overe their excln om the legal benefs of marriage, Walker and Lister privately harnsed certa relig elements of the ceremony to formalise their own pannship. Clev’s work here is necsarily a survey, touchg upon digeno tradns; “female hbands”; tersex persons; “Boston marriag”; “bachelor marriag”; the emergg homosexual cultur of the twentieth century; and queer culture at sea, among other maniftatns of unns that were lled marriag their own time.

As Clev asks, “Should they be unrstood as same-sex narrativ or should they be amed wh a history of transgenr that is still beg leated om lbian and gay history? ” In his tellg, at least a hundred men aboard the prison ships Bermuda had same-sex partners whom they nsired, the official archive of gay marriage is still s fancy: the Uned Stat, June marked the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s lg Obergefell v.

FROM GAY MARRIAGE TO UGAR WIV, THE VICTORIANS HAVE MUCH TO TEACH

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