The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014
Contents:
- THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF BRA’S FIRST WORLD WAR POETS REVEALED
- POEMS / GAY POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTU-CRANIUM FOLLOWON JUL 28 2023 08:57 PM PST A SHOCK (OF HAIIR)
- GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF BRA’S FIRST WORLD WAR POETS REVEALED
One of the reasons we’re able to unrstand, wh such vivid knowledge, what life was like durg WW1 is thanks to some great poetry. But did you know some of the most famo war poets were revere gay, bi and queer? * history of gay poetry *
While he remaed mostly obscure durg his lifetime, he's now e to be revered as one of the great gay poets of the past hundred years.
POEMS / GAY POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTU-CRANIUM FOLLOWON JUL 28 2023 08:57 PM PST A SHOCK (OF HAIIR)
* history of gay poetry *
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GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
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Advot of queer theory claim that both heterosexualy and homosexualy are socially nstcted and that there is nothg “natural” about any sexual inty.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
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The dividual and his or her wrgs are no longer nsired to be “sentially” gay or straight but stead are ponents a broad polil disurse.
The same nclns, however, n be ed to margalize gay wrgs by makg them seem merely one of many lser disurs the plexi of human sexual exprsn. Bisexualy has been viewed wh gay studi as distct om homosexualy, and bisexuals have found themselv exclud om gay events and anizatns although a great many “gay ins” om Socrat to Shakpeare to Osr Wil were married and fathered children.
Edward Heath was told poet should be led out over ‘utterly revoltg’ vers about gay sex and Aun’s cisn to be an Amerin cizen * history of gay poetry *
Another divisive issue has volved the qutn of whether lbians and gay men should be tegorized as part of the same social and polil realy. ” Further, even the word “homosexual” is ght wh problems: is often believed, rrectly, that origated as a medi-scientific term to classify homosexualy as a disease.
The word “homosexual” was, fact, created the late neteenth century as an English equivalent for German Homosexualtät, which first appeared prt 1869 a pamphlet argug agast the Pssian legal that prcribed punishments for men who engaged same-sex relatns. “Homosexual” was ed for the first time A Problem Morn Ethics (1891) by the Brish poet and sayist John Addgton Symonds (1840–1893).
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In this say, “homosexual” and “gay” are ed terchangeably to refer to both men and women who are sexually drawn to members of their own sex.
Neher word is ed a historilly specific sense, so that Walt Whman (1819–1892) is lled “homosexual, ” although all likelihood he never heard the term. FouultIn the troductn to the first volume of his Histoire la sexualé (1976; English translatn, History of Sexualy, 1978), Michel Fouult argu that homosexualy is an ventn of the late neteenth century. Before then, he claims, there were homosexual acts and sir, but the neteenth century renceived the as aspects and exprsns of a certa kd of person.
The neteenth-century homosexual beme a personage, a past, a se history, and a childhood, addn to beg a type of life, a life form, and a morphology, wh an discreet anatomy and possibly a myster physlogy. Adoptg his posn, crics have argued, for example, that Walt Whman and Osr Wil (1854–1900) were not, strictly speakg, homosexuals, at least the sense that medil and psychologil tablishments unrstood that “ndn” or “speci” the twentieth century. Siarly, crics have sisted that is anachronistic to speak of “Greek homosexualy” Plato's Athens; the “speci” uld not exist, they say, whout s “disurse.
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Whether the dividual is born homosexual or his or her homosexual sir are socially nstcted, is clear that medi-scientific theori of homosexualy as a curable disease were an ventn of the late neteenth and early twentieth centuri.
Homosexualy plays by Tennsee Williams is differently unrstood, for example, than is poems by Walt Whman, and the difference is largely rooted medi-scientific nsiratns rather than ethil or polil on.