The Grave and the Gay: The Civil War on the Gild Age Lecture Circu - The Journal of the Civil War Era

Contents:

• CONFERATE AND UNN: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THE HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS, ALISON BECHL THE ‘NEW YORKER’, AND MORE LGBT NEWS
• AMERI'S GAY CONFERATE AND UNN SOLDIERS
• THE GRAVE AND THE GAY: THE CIVIL WAR ON THE GILD AGE LECTURE CIRCU
• BUGGERY, SODOMY AND CROSS-DRSG, OH MY: A TIMELE OF GAY CRIMALIZATN AMERI
• BT GAY ROMANCE TIM OF WAR

CONFERATE AND UNN: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS

C., signalg the war’s begng, s gay Conferate and Unn soldiers didn’t have to worry about the morn famo DADT policy, which blatantly discrimated agast gay, lbian and bisexual servicemembers.

” And “un hn, ” the big battleground issue durg the fight to repeal DADT which posed that the “homosexual gaze” would be the root e for disptn (which was totally bunked by a 2002 study), was not an issue. But the qutn, some would argue, of who were LGBTQ service members and who weren’t the Amerin Civil War is a disgenuo query sce the words “homosexual” and “heterosexual” weren’t part of the Amerin lexin until thirty years after the war end. However, many would also argue that not havg a word like “homosexual” back the day of the Civil War to pict same-sex attractn among soldiers do not negate our e of to scribe them this prent day.

Usg archival documents such as urt-martial and medil rerds, newspaper articl, pornographic books and rds, and letters and diari of the soldiers, Lowry’s foc was to addrs the problem of prostutn – straight and gay – and why both the Unn and Conferate Armi had to work to stop sexually transmted fectns om cripplg their soldiers, bee STIs were stg more soldier’s health and liv than actn on the battlefield. The Greeks favored gay and bisexual young men their ary. Sce gay and bisexual men were nsired a fay un, the Greeks knew that paired male lovers assigned to the same battalns were a ary asset.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

"The story of GLBT don't start wh Queer as Folk, " says Ang, an assistant profsor of stud art at Maryville Universy St., who is gay, beme terted cross-drsg Civil War soldiers after happeng upon a few imag of women who prented as male orr to fight the nflict. "Even though the inty of eher a gay male or a lbian or a bisexual or a trans person did not exist at this time, they did exist, " says the photos, which he prevly exhibed at his universy and hop to take to LGBT centers around the natn, he seeks to regnize the soldiers as pneers the movements for women's and LGBT equaly. "He not that there is still bias agast transgenr people on the part of some lbian, gay, and bisexual dividuals.

Ang not that if there had been a ncept of gay male inty at the time, she and her hband would have appeared to be a gay uple; men uld be openly affectnate and even sexual wh each other, and such activy was labeled bad behavr rather that an ditor of a person's inty.

THE HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS, ALISON BECHL THE ‘NEW YORKER’, AND MORE LGBT NEWS

"Today Franc Clayton would be straight, but an odd twist of fate she n be argued to be an early hero for the rights of gay men, " he says. We've all heard about Walt Whman and his homosexualy or bisexualy.

Now that same sex marriag and homosexual rights groups prsurg for equal rights, should e as no surprise that the people should attempt to gra the nam of famo Civil War hero an attempt to better their own e.

AMERI'S GAY CONFERATE AND UNN SOLDIERS

Yet, the blog I read was wrten by a homosexual thor who wants to e our hero and good cent men to help his own e.

THE GRAVE AND THE GAY: THE CIVIL WAR ON THE GILD AGE LECTURE CIRCU

Among the most ridiculo stori is one that is mentned two books, both wrten by homosexuals to further their own e. Do this mean every Civil War soldier was homosexual?

BUGGERY, SODOMY AND CROSS-DRSG, OH MY: A TIMELE OF GAY CRIMALIZATN AMERI

In his attempt to swg Cleburne to his si of the homosexual argument, he says that Cleburne was a life long bachelor. Another Conferate general acced of beg a homosexual is Jam Jay Archer of Maryland.

This along wh the fact that he beme toxited and hugged a man that he said he'd shared blankets wh durg the Mexin War (see Patrick Cleburne above) got him pated today as a homosexual.

Still, there is no evince of him beg homosexual. He noted that he had never seen Lorg wh a woman and assumed the man was homosexual, but not so many words.

BT GAY ROMANCE TIM OF WAR

Beg a member of the Sons of Conferate Veterans, I've heard numero stori claimg that Abraham Lln was eher homosexual or at the very least bi-sexual. Do this make the man homosexual?

I would never ll Lln or Cleburne a homosexual unls I found hard evince that was te. gay rights movement, also lled gay liberatn movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons (i.

E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. (Although the term gay is monly ed reference to homosexual mal, is also ed more generally to refer to homosexual mal together wh some or all other orientatns wh the LGBTQ muny. ) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy.