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As monstrated by the followg history of homosexualy, the Buddi Private Club’s roots n ep. Throughout history those sharg homosexual terts have formed clubs, societi and special lotns to share and explore their tert homosexualy. Sce the seventeenth century, homosexualy has been the target of nmnatn and discrimatory laws, public polici, social ctoms, and cultural beliefs.

By makg gay men and lbians the object of srn, this hostily has kept much homosexual behavr hidn. Until the thirteenth century, the Christian tradn was ambiguo s attu toward homosexualy. Homosexual behavr was thereafter exriated as a heo s.

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Colonial statut severely punished homosexual activy.

In every lony, sodomy was a pal offense—at least five men were executed durg this era—and other homosexual acts, om “sodomil practic” to lewdns between women, were punished wh whippgs and f.

But officials tend to sgle out homosexual offens for pecially severe treatment. In the late neteenth century, medil science add to the negative evaluatn of homosexualy. The medil profsn grew fluence, and almost whout exceptn, Amerin physicians diagnosed homosexualy as a form of illns.

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A prolific medil lerature, as well as rerds of treatment, suggt that many doctors viewed homosexualy wh dread.

Moralistic judgments permeated the “scientific” study of homosexualy. One physician scribed a se of homosexualy as “shockg to every sense of cency, disgtg and revoltg, ” phras that he surely would not have applied to a se of pnmonia or yellow fever. Studi of their applitn reveal patterns of selective enforcement that sgled out male homosexuals.

In Sux Cy, Iowa, for stance, the late 1950s, the district attorney, employg a psychopath law, mted twenty-ne male homosexuals to asylums. Unr the laws, homosexuals were often given termate sentenc mental stutns as punishment.

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The shiftg fns of homosexualy, om sful crimal act to diseased ndn, have poted historians toward important theoretil formulatns, pecially the distctn between homosexual acts, which n be documented across history and culture, and homosexual inti. In the Uned Stat seems apparent that an important change occurred the late neteenth and early twentieth centuri, when a morn gay inty began to take shape. In the lonial era, some dividuals experienced homosexual sire.

Ined, much of the evince of homosexual behavr that surviv urt rerds pots to s existence wh marriage. In the neteenth century, as Amerin life was rtctured part around the separatn of female and male spher, and as sexualy me to be unrstood romantic, spirualized terms, homosexual sire often occurred the ntext of tense, passnate iendships which physil timacy was exprsed un-self-nscly. Late the century, as large ci allowed for greater anonymy, as wage labor apart om fay beme mon, and as more women were drawn out of the home, evince of a new pattern of homosexual exprsn surfaced.

Among men and women and across the spectm of class and occupatn, dividuals were anizg their personal liv around their homosexual attractns. The doctors who wrote about homosexualy durg the s veloped their theori through se histori of men and women whose liv exhibed the new patterns. By 1915, one participant this new gay world was referrg to as “a muny distctly anized.

” For the most part hidn om view bee of social hostily, an urban gay subculture had e to existence by the 1920s and 1930s. World War II served as a cril divi the social history of homosexualy.