In the polil arena, there are currently two central and petg views of homosexualy. Pro-fay anizatns, workg om a ntagn mol of homosexualy, ntend that homosexualy is an immoral, unhealthy, and eely chosen vice. Many pro-gay anizatns poe an inty mol of homosexualy unr which sexual orientatn is an immutable, unchosen, and benign characteristic. Both pro-fay and pro-gay anizatns believe that to fe homosexualy is to ntrol s legal and polil stat. This sometim bter bate regardg the nature of same-sex sire might seem like an exceedgly ntemporary velopment. However, the ex-gay media blz of 2000 reprents only the latt skirmish a long-standg battle for ontologil hegemony. Over 70 years ago, an openg salvo was lnched the 1928 obsceny trials of Radclyffe Hall's novel THE WELL OF LONELINESS (THE WELL). The novel tailed the life and lov of Stephen Gordon, a female vert, for whom same-sex sire was picted as an nate, god-given, and potentially noble characteristic. Buildg on the ngenal versn theori of the early sexologists, Richard von Krafft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis, Hall nstcted the first popular articulatn of a posive lbian inty and argued, whout apology, for the vert's right to love. Th, THE WELL, female verts are not only subjects - they are juridil subjects. Hall a clearly articulated rights disurse throughout the book as her characters assert their right to love and long for the right to protect (i.e., marry) their partners. Upon publitn, THE WELL enuntered a hostile unter-narrative of homosexualy as ntagn, rultg sensatnal obsceny trials on both sis of the Atlantic. Courts New York and London adjudged THE WELL obscene unr the prevailg Hickl le, fdg that had the tenncy to prave or rpt those whose mds are open to such immoral fluenc, and who might e ntact wh . The media verage generated by the trials and the attendant moral panic assured THE WELL a posn as the most fluential lbian novel of the twentieth century and marked the ntroversy as a water shed the velopment of lbian inty. The ntroversy over THE WELL was also a water shed the evolutn of anti-gay rhetoric. As one of the earlit exampl Anglo-Amerin jurispnce of the battle between the ntagn and inty mols of homosexualy, the trials and the larger soc-legal rponse provi an important lk our unrstandg of the ntug cultural
Contents:
- IS TOM ELLIS GAY?
- TOP TMP MPAIGN AI PHED ANTI-GAY POSNS, SAID LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WOULD LEAD TO BTIALY AND PEDOPHILIA
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- WAS ELVIS PRLEY GAY?
IS TOM ELLIS GAY?
Is Tom Ellis Gay? Come and disver what has been said lately about this and what's Tom Ellis sayg about this. * homosexuality in ellis *
It was partially Edh’s homosexualy that led Havelock Ellis to eventually publish Studi the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Inversn, the first English medil text on homosexualy and one that approached the matter om a ser standpot rather than dismissg as a mere perversn. He supported himself the meantime wh a small herance and by edg reprts of Elizabethan and Jabean ’ first work, Studi the Psychology of Sex (-thored by JA Symonds) was published German 1896, and translated to English the followg year, the first English textbook on homosexualy.
TOP TMP MPAIGN AI PHED ANTI-GAY POSNS, SAID LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WOULD LEAD TO BTIALY AND PEDOPHILIA
A top adviser and lawyer for Print Donald Tmp’s re-electn mpaign has a history of phg anti-gay posns, cludg lkg the legalizatn of same-sex marriage to btialy and pedophilia. * homosexuality in ellis *
Ellis was often attributed as the person to have ed the term “homosexual, ” although he vigoroly nied , clarg a “barbaroly hybrid word” (hybrid bee has mixed Greek and Lat roots; the source of the origal plats agast s adoptn as the generic term).
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
* homosexuality in ellis *
From the Civil War through the 1920s, New York and other Amerin ci, there were numero clubs, saloons, and dance halls known for transvtism (men or women drsg as the oppose sex), for male prostutn, or as plac that tered to a “gay crowd”—meang men and women terted a ls nventnal eveng’s entertament. In December 2019, the Tmp mpaign began sellg LGBTQ Pri merchandise on s webse and last month hosted a virtual mpaign trag semar wh the Log Cab Republins, the pro-gay rights nservative group, to urt Texas LGBTQ voters. “And judicial activism ignored the immoraly of homosexualy and created this fabrited right to privacy that was the penumbra of the Constutn and termed that homosexualy is wh that right to privacy the penumbra of the Constutn.
Psychologists, psychiatrists, soclogists, moralists, philosophers, tnalists, and geicists, to list some of the mentators wh all manner of views, have foced on homosexualy wh an attentn that few other topics have received. However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary. Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy.
WAS ELVIS PRLEY GAY?
The European powers enforced their own crimal s agast what was lled sodomy the New World: the first known se of homosexual activy receivg a ath sentence North Ameri occurred 1566, when the Spanish executed a Frenchman Florida.
Biblil terpretatn ma illegal for a woman to wear pants or a man to adopt female drs, and sensatnalized public trials warned agast “viants” but also ma such martyrs and hero popular: Joan of Arc is one example, and the chillg origs of the word “faggot” clu a stick of wood ed public burngs of gay men.
” In Wtern history, we fd ltle formal study of what was later lled homosexualy before the 19th century, beyond medil texts intifyg women wh large cloris as “tribas” and severe punishment s for male homosexual acts. Their wrgs were sympathetic to the ncept of a homosexual or bisexual orientatn occurrg naturally an intifiable segment of humankd, but the wrgs of Krafft-Ebg and Ellis also labeled a “third sex” generate and abnormal. The blu mic of Ain-Amerin women showsed varieti of lbian sire, stggle, and humor; the performanc, along wh male and female drag stars, troduced a gay unrworld to straight patrons durg Prohibn’s fiance of race and sex s speakeasy clubs.