Post-Stonewall gay men's culture, cludg sexual/erotic culture, stands a nsistent (but largely unanalyzed) relatnship to the Middle Ag.1 To repren
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GAY MARRIAGE
Gay marriage has only jt bee a lawful enterprise, but that don’t mean wasn’t around. For the history of gay marriage, you me to the right place. * medieval gay marriage *
” In this later perd, we see a newfound homophobic ristance to the re that, the reactn’s vrl, speaks to the role this re uld really play for men mtg themselv to each other: The Patriarch’s words acknowledge the realy that no matter s tentn, the re enabled the space for sexual timaci between men.
A woman uld get a divorce for 14 different reasons, cludg her hband’s failure to provi for her or her fay due to unemployment, mental or physil illns or entry to a monastery; emotnal or physil abe; impotency, sterily, bisexualy or homosexualy. Such homosexual unns also took place Ireland the late 12th/early 13th century, as the chronicler Gerald of Wal (Gerald Cambrensis) has rerd. (In by gay inographer Robert Lentz.
)This is the claim of the homosexual historian John Boswell his book Same Sex Unns Pre-Morn Europe (Chigo) Sex Marriage Lurgy = Alphopois? ”Now Boswell translated alphopois as “same-sex unn, ” and ma the se that the were homosexual unns sanctned by the Church. They are mentned the Greek lurgy of alphopois, and Boswell argu that they were likely an early same-sex pair joed together homoeroticism.
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * medieval gay marriage *
Alphopois or Afèrement was Not HomoeroticBoswell’s analysis fails when we rell that both Catholic Europe and Orthodox Byzantium punished homosexualy wh ath (Byzante s of law ll for nvicted homosexual men to be burned).
There is ample evince of homosexualy the medieval era. Unfortunately for him, the Christian and lurgil norms never reveal the slightt tolerance for homosexual the middle of the 1000’s you have Sat Peter Damian’s book Liber Gomorrhian circulatg wh a cryg nmnatn of both homosexualy and masturbatn among the Hilgard of Bgen the 1100s wrote agast lbian acts her work same nmnatn agast homosexualy is reerated penential manuals and aga by Sat Thomas Aquas the 1200s.
In the 1300s, the heretil reform sect of the Lollards England ced pritly celibacy as a e of homosexualy Peter Damian and Sat Hilgard’s explic teachgs over explic acts certaly reveal that homosexualy was practiced among the lay, the clergy, and the relig – even the women relig. So Boswell is rrect intifyg homosexual activy his perd. He is simply wrong potg to alphopois as a sanctned form of would be odd for both a civil society and a universal relign to crimalize homosexual acts on one hand, but also provi a “wk-wk” lurgy orr to tablish a sexual relatnship between two men on the other hand.