GAY STUDIES AND THE VICTORIAN PERIOD on JSTOR

Contents:

• SEX SYMBOL: HOW ANTO BEME A GAY CO WORD THE VICTORIAN ERA
• BEFORE STRAIGHT AND GAY
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

SEX SYMBOL: HOW ANTO BEME A GAY CO WORD THE VICTORIAN ERA

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. 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.

Many believed that one uld be moral and at the same time have sexual was one of the reasons why homosexualy was extremely problematic issue the Brish society faced at that time.

BEFORE STRAIGHT AND GAY

In the fundamental Brish society, was embarrassg to speak of this sexual was only when the trials of Osr Wil were gog on that the term and ia of classifyg homosexualy me to limelight.

Observable homosexualyEven though heterosexualy was nsired normal and natural throughout Victorian era, there is seen visible crease homosexualy pecially among men as well as telligentsia durg that perd of history. The reason was that homosexualy was prohibed as cent behavur public and privately, gay sex behd closed doors was not nsired crimal offence until 1885.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

” Jt as homosexualy mataed an ambiguo (and even paradoxil) posn wh Victorian culture—beg simultaneoly central and limal—so, too, is s place wh Victorian lerature and s specifilly Victorian textual endgs.