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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.