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Hundreds of photographs om the 19th and 20th centuri offer a glimpse at the life of gay men durg a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere.

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100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

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Homosexualy Victorian eraIn Victorian era homosexualy had s differenc and siari.

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.

THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND

There were drag parti, lbian relatnships, a secret gay rights group - and more. * victorian gay men *

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. Homosexualy Victorian eraAttus and expectatns about maral and timate relatnships were very strict durg Victorian era. On the other hand, male homosexual acts, even the on nducted privately was nsired crimal act.

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

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Homosexualy Victorian eraPublicly homosexualy was not discsed and was hard to accs private sexual behavur. 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. 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.

Homosexualy was very rarely discsed Victorian society and whenever was discsed there were severe nsequenc for the men.

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.

‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945

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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. HomosexualyVictorian cizens rarely lived up to their stereotyp when me to genr, health and sexualy.

Also, prsur om relig stutns and ernment led to creatg laws agast homosexualy. It is believed that Victorians had a more lenient attu towards gay relatnships or attu to sex between men than their 1960s unterparts.

The Victorian Era marked a huge shift the treatment of homosexualy. The Brish had been plete nial about the prence of homosexualy wh their untry.

VTAGE GAY FICTN

Durg the 19th century the silence England was broken, and police began actively fightg the "problem" of homosexualy. However, the laws were selectively applied and th were not a great threat to gay men, as long as they were discreet and avoid sndal. Gay men were monly seen by society as perverts who had chosen their sexualy, or as diseased dividuals whose sexualy was ed by their upbrgg and blogy, and not somethg they were born wh.

Doctors and psychologists, believg that homosexualy uld be cured, tried methods such as hypnosis and aversn therapy. A late 19th century gay uple. A middle-aged gay uple the late 1800s.

BEFORE STRAIGHT AND GAY

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A gay uple, 1878. Gay uple, . Gay men om the 1800s.

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