VOLTAIRE AND THE QUAKER, CLAUDE GAY, Bullet of Friends' Historil Society of Philalphia, Vol. 7, No. 1 (FIFTH MONTH (MAY), 1916), pp. 27-30
Contents:
- WERE VOLTAIRE AND KG FRERICK THE GREAT, A SECRET UPLE? WERE THEY GAY?
- RIMBD AND VERLAE: FRANCE AGONIS OVER DIGGG UP GAY POETS
WERE VOLTAIRE AND KG FRERICK THE GREAT, A SECRET UPLE? WERE THEY GAY?
The three words, on page 545, were: “Villette, urbane homosexual.
RIMBD AND VERLAE: FRANCE AGONIS OVER DIGGG UP GAY POETS
What he had not always done, however, was to live at the hoe of a known “urbane homosexual.
Still, his treatment of the “anti-physique” theme is everywhere his works, such as an article tled “Amour nommé Socratique” his Philosophil Dictnary; the scen Candi which Cunegon’s brother—an aristocrat, a prit, and a homosexual, that orr—appears. There is no unrlyg cricism, no judgment about the baron of Thunr-ten-Tronckh’s homosexualy. ” One n surmise why homosexuals were not targets of Voltaire’s reproach: they played no role curtailg the rights of others society or nyg the opprsed the possibily of bread and happs.