There were drag parti, lbian relatnships, a secret gay rights group - and more.
Contents:
- BEFORE STRAIGHT AND GAY
- SEX SYMBOL: HOW ANTO BEME A GAY CO WORD THE VICTORIAN ERA
- THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
BEFORE STRAIGHT AND GAY
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 * gay in the victorian age *
Before Straight and GayThe discreet, disorientg passns of the Victorian eraMarc BurckhardtEven by the formidable standards of ement Victorian fai, the Bensons were an timidatg lot. As a great al of queer history has by now monstrated, the strictly fed tegori of “homosexual” and “heterosexual” are relatively new: bright l drawn across the late-20th-century sexual landspe that ma “g out” a dichotomo the Victorians, the suatn was much more fluid.
SEX SYMBOL: HOW ANTO BEME A GAY CO WORD THE VICTORIAN ERA
Though sex between men was a crimal offense ( Bra, lbianism was visible before the law), there was, as yet, hardly a homosexual inty fed by same-sex sire.
THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
He don’t diagnose the Bensons retrospectively and anachronistilly as a fay of reprsed homosexuals.