Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
Contents:
- BUT WERE THEY GAY? THE MYSTERY OF SAME-SEX LOVE THE 19TH CENTURY
- THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
BUT WERE THEY GAY? THE MYSTERY OF SAME-SEX LOVE THE 19TH CENTURY
A Yorkshire farmer's journal om 1810 reveals surprisgly morn views on beg gay. * gay sex in the 1800s *
The fact that homosexualy was prent the earlit settlements of the loni is evint om the creatn of laws outlawg and the rerds of the urts punishg those who vlated them.
In 1636 Plymouth Colony enacted laws prohibg homosexual enunters, wh strict penalti to be applied. Durg the Amerin Revolutn, a man known for homosexual behavr was France seekg a posn wh the Amerin Army while simultaneoly facg prosecutn for sodomy unr one of the German stat’ dranian laws.
"Walt Whman and Gay Liberatn are nearly synonymo for me, " wrote cultural historian Rictor Norton a 1999 say.
THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
"It's hard to image any morn poet wrg about lyg another man's arms and then llg homosexualy "damnable.
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
""The thg we don't know about any of the people, " says Peggy Wishart, "is the qutn most morn people have: Were they gay? " By 1911, there was enough awarens of homosexualy that when Fields pulled together a posthumo volume of Jewett's letters, edor Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe urged her to censor out the pet nam. But as Reynolds says, "It's absolutely wrong to impose today's versn of homosexualy on Whman or Jewett.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
Such adult men ed the pretext of a srcy of women to tablish enforced homosexual relatnships remote mps and ranch parable to the relatnships for which today's prisons are notor.