Gay Love In Victorian England: 1885-1901 | beetleypete

Contents:

• THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
• SEX SYMBOL: HOW ANTO BEME A GAY CO WORD THE VICTORIAN ERA
• BEFORE STRAIGHT AND GAY
• GAY LOVE IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND: 1885-1901

THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND

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. 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. 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.

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

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.

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.

BEFORE STRAIGHT AND GAY

Crossdrsg men, drag balls and homosexual behavur sparked Sectn 11 of 1885’s Crimal Law Amendment Act, which ma “gross cency” punishable the UK. When the se reached urt, the physil examatns by police were found unreliable and the prosecutn was unable to prove that they had mted any homosexual offence. The surprisg tth about the liv of gay men Victorian England.

GAY LOVE IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND: 1885-1901

THE largt ever survey of urt s relatg to the crimalisatn of gay men has revealed some surprisg fds. They show that outsi of London, The Crimal Jtice System regns such as Lanshire simply weren’t terted prosecutg gay men for their activi. What’s very tertg about this perd is how the stereotypil readgs of ‘gay history’ are about the btaly of law officers, but that isn’t borne out the rerds.

This June the Molly Brown Hoe Mm has created a Thirsty Thursday event to ci wh Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Pri Month tled Queer the Age of the Queen. In 1890 philosopher and psychologist William Jam went so far as to theorize that while the male repulsn of homosexualy is stctive, cultur which homosexualy is regularly practiced and his view tolerated, mt have only been achieved by overg the “natural” aversn through force of hab. In a 1908 cross-cultural study, philosopher and soclogist Edward Wtermarck me to siar ncln, but extend his theori to addrs the rejectn of homosexualy by relig stutns.