In Sailors and Sexual Inty, thor Steven Zeeland talks wh young male sailors--both gay- and straight-intified--about ways which their social and
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“I DID FOR THE UPLIFT OF HUMANY AND THE NAVY”: FDR'S GAY SEX-ENTRAPMENT STG
* sailors and homosexuality *
By referencg the nearly accintal act of 'sodomy, ' Cleland taps to the popular imprsn that sailors engaged homosexualy. Rictor Norton, at his webse Homosexualy Eighteenth-Century England, has llected an imprsive number of primary sourc, though few reference sailors.
When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only plac where homosexual men uld not only be out but also mp. And on some lers to the sun and the New Wor * sailors and homosexuality *
Somethg that be clear Norton's work is that there was ltle or no legal distctn at the time between those who engaged a sgle same-sex act, those who were exclively homosexual, and anyone who fell between.