Ben Gazur’s whistle-stop tour of the history of gay men London tak om 14th-century persecutn to morn Pri events.
Contents:
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- BUT WERE THEY GAY? THE MYSTERY OF SAME-SEX LOVE THE 19TH CENTURY
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
- GAY MEN LONDON, OM PERSECUTN TO PRI
- HISTORIC PHOTOS OF AIN-AMERIN GAY MEN UNEARTHED
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily. * 19th century gay photos *
“Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s. Gay Rights,. 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. Durg the 19th century the silence England was broken, and police began actively fightg the "problem" of homosexualy.
BUT WERE THEY GAY? THE MYSTERY OF SAME-SEX LOVE THE 19TH CENTURY
LGBTQ Lerature is a Rears and Book Lovers seri dited to discsg lerature that has ma an impact on the liv of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people. From fictn to ntemporary nonfictn to history and everythg ... * 19th century gay photos *
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. Gay uple the 1850s-60s.
Gay uple the late 1800s Ameri.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
A gay uple, 1878.
Gay uple, . Gay men om the 1800s. Sometim the dience wrongly nclus that the men were exprsg their closeted gay tennci for the mera.
Men were ee to have affectnate man relatnships wh each other whout fear of beg lled “gay” bee the ncept of homosexualy as we know today didn’t exist then.
GAY MEN LONDON, OM PERSECUTN TO PRI
Ameri didn’t have the strict straight or gay dichotomy that currently exists. Men and women basilly lived separate homosocial worlds until they got married. That’s so gay!
”The pos, facial exprsns, and body language of the men below will strike the morn viewer as very gay ed. But is ccial to unrstand that you nnot view the photographs through the prism of our morn culture and current nceptn of homosexualy. The term “homosexualy” was fact not ed until 1869, and before that time, the strict dichotomy between “gay” and “straight” did not yet exist.
It was a behavr — accepted by some cultur and nsired sful by at the turn of the 20th century, the ia of homosexualy shifted om a practice to a liftyle and an inty.
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF AIN-AMERIN GAY MEN UNEARTHED
You did not have temptatns towards a certa s, you were a homosexual person. Thkg of men as eher “homosexual” or “heterosexual” beme mon.
As this new nceptn of homosexualy as a stigmatized and onero intifier took root Amerin culture, men began to be much more reful to not send msag to other men, and to women, that they were gay. At the same time, also may expla why untri wh a more nservative, relig culture, such as Ai or the Middle East, where men do engage homosexual acts, but still nsir homosexualy the “crime that nnot be spoken, ” remas mon for men to be affectnate wh one another and fortable wh thgs like holdg hands as they walk. Whether the men below were gay the way our current culture unrstands that ia, or the way that they themselv unrstood , is unknowable.