Robert K. Mart, GAY STUDIES AND THE VICTORIAN PERIOD, Newsletter of the Victorian Studi Associatn of Wtern Canada, Vol. 13, No. 1 (SPRING 1987), pp. 69-76
Contents:
VICTORIAN GAY ROMANCE
* victorian gay literature *
Homosexualy. The 19th century ccially wnsed the genis of homosexual inti, subcultur, and polics forms that have endured to the prent day.
SEX SYMBOL: HOW ANTO BEME A GAY CO WORD THE VICTORIAN ERA
The word homosexual, wh s attendant notn of sexual inty, was ed and dissemated the last quarter of the 19th century.
VTAGE GAY FICTN
It was a perd of enormo opportuni, challeng, and risks for homosexual women and men. ” Jt as homosexualy mataed an ambiguo (and even paradoxil) posn wh Victorian culture—beg simultaneoly central and limal—so, too, is s place wh Victorian lerature and s specifilly Victorian textual endgs.
Cultural and legal prohibns mean that reprentatns of explicly homosexual sir and timaci are rare wh popular, mastream fictn and poetry.