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GAY HISTORY: SODOMY; THE LAW ENGLAND, 1290-1885
Medieval Female HomosexualyThere is even ls rerd evince of female homosexualy Medieval Europe than Ancient Europe.Some historians theorize that this is bee their homosexualy did not prevent them om bearg children to legal hbands and also bee of the general misogyny of the tim.Medieval Homosexualy SourcIt’s important to note that we don’t have many survivg sourc to renstct the experience of medieval homosexuals.Homosexual imag medieval texts and artifacts are few and far between. The works of Jefey Weeks (Comg Out: Homosexual Polics Bra om the Neteenth Century to the Prent, 1977), Sebastian Buckle (The Way Out: A History of Homosexualy Morn Bra, 2015) and Annamarie Jagose (Queer Theory: An Introductn, 1996) are our ma pots of reference and the article draws heavily on a talk given by Jefey Weeks at the LGBT centre on 3rd April, 2019 Lyon (()). Both the Gay Liberatnist and Femist Movements manifted a latent fear of the ‘mascule lbian’ takg over the disurse of the groups aforementned; for this reason, lbians remaed outsts both, and were forced to rema distct om both the homosexual as well as the femist e.
In the 19th century (and ntug well to the 20th century), homosexualy was a matter of changg moral standards, and the public opn on the subject was extremely negative: homosexualy symbolised nce and an crease licent behavur that need to be ntrolled. Onanism and homosexualy were treated wh equal severy, and homosexualy particular was seen as “‘the secret s’ which has been learned at a private school, imported to a public school, and there tght to the youngt boys, [and which] will produce the more fashnable vic of the larger society. This belief was le wh the 1860s bate about ‘nate’ and ‘acquired’ tras, which meant by rollary that homosexualy was nate some dividuals (and the were the s beyond help), while the others followed the nt culture prevalent at the time (Weeks, 25).
But what was clearly tablished were the polari between homosexualy and heterosexualy; homosexualy that was once seen as a temporary aberratn beme a distct sexual inty the 20th century wh s own characteristics, s own language and s own culture, however peripheral may be. Buckle feels ed that Brish society produced extremely opposnal public imag of homosexualy: on the one hand, Brish journalism took a nservative approach on the subject, and on the other hand, films and televisn productns challenged the stereotyp of homosexual dividuals the public imagatn (Buckle, 120). While the gay prs challenged the ernment for their neglect of the homosexual populatn, the mastream newspapers were quick to lk homosexualy and AIDS based on the fact that the disease seemed to have appeared homosexual men when was first rerd.