A Yorkshire farmer's journal om 1810 reveals surprisgly morn views on beg gay.
Contents:
- BEFORE STRAIGHT AND GAY
- SEX SYMBOL: HOW ANTO BEME A GAY CO WORD THE VICTORIAN ERA
- THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
- THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
- 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
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 victorian times *
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
* gay in victorian times *
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 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
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THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
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” The irony of all this is somethg that no gay liberatnist would have thought possible when the mpaign for homosexual rights was regard as a grave threat to the social orr.
Sandwiched between the fluidy of the Victorian years and the proliferatg sexual and genr inti of the new lennium, the late 20th century’s straight-gay paradigm looks cidly old-fashned—maybe even a ltle stodgy.
The Victorian era is important to be looked at so that we know the cultural ntext which Osr Wil ed to live homosexualy went agast the notn of masculy, was talked about rarely and threatened the fay stcture as well as was believed to go agast beg fundamentally Brish. This lack of rmatn om different mediums of munitn is the reason why discsn of homosexualy was not seen throughout society. Discsns about homosexualy among society was very mimal bee Victorian cizens tried to ignore the fact ncept that mal might have sexual relatnship wh other mal.
100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
Homosexualy Victorian eraAttus and expectatns about maral and timate relatnships were very strict durg Victorian era.