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:
- 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
* 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.
SEX SYMBOL: HOW ANTO BEME A GAY CO WORD THE VICTORIAN ERA
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.
THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
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.
He don’t diagnose the Bensons retrospectively and anachronistilly as a fay of reprsed homosexuals. Even though the term homosexual was g to currency, he did not e until 1924, the year before he died.