The Grave and the Gay: The Civil War on the Gild Age Lecture Circu - The Journal of the Civil War Era

Contents:

• AMERI'S GAY CONFERATE AND UNN SOLDIERS
• THE GRAVE AND THE GAY: THE CIVIL WAR ON THE GILD AGE LECTURE CIRCU
• ‘THE FACT THAT THEY ACCEPTED THE PARTY THE FIRST PLACE’: RTRANT ASSIGNS GAY AND BLACK EMPLOYE TO SERVE A CONFERATE PARTY
• THE HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS, ALISON BECHL THE ‘NEW YORKER’, AND MORE LGBT NEWS
• GAY CONFERATE FLAG GIFTS
• SHOW YOUR CONFERATE GAY PRI
• ANTI-GAY CONFERATE FLAG SUPPORTG CONSERVATIV CALL FOR GAY FLAG BAN IN WAKE OF VIRGIA SHOOTER

AMERI'S GAY CONFERATE AND UNN SOLDIERS

C., signalg the war’s begng, s gay Conferate and Unn soldiers didn’t have to worry about the morn famo DADT policy, which blatantly discrimated agast gay, lbian and bisexual servicemembers.

” And “un hn, ” the big battleground issue durg the fight to repeal DADT which posed that the “homosexual gaze” would be the root e for disptn (which was totally bunked by a 2002 study), was not an issue. But the qutn, some would argue, of who were LGBTQ service members and who weren’t the Amerin Civil War is a disgenuo query sce the words “homosexual” and “heterosexual” weren’t part of the Amerin lexin until thirty years after the war end. However, many would also argue that not havg a word like “homosexual” back the day of the Civil War to pict same-sex attractn among soldiers do not negate our e of to scribe them this prent day.

Usg archival documents such as urt-martial and medil rerds, newspaper articl, pornographic books and rds, and letters and diari of the soldiers, Lowry’s foc was to addrs the problem of prostutn – straight and gay – and why both the Unn and Conferate Armi had to work to stop sexually transmted fectns om cripplg their soldiers, bee STIs were stg more soldier’s health and liv than actn on the battlefield. The Greeks favored gay and bisexual young men their ary.

THE GRAVE AND THE GAY: THE CIVIL WAR ON THE GILD AGE LECTURE CIRCU

Sce gay and bisexual men were nsired a fay un, the Greeks knew that paired male lovers assigned to the same battalns were a ary asset. Queer Civil War buffs have been argug for some time that the afeng silence around lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) Conferate and Unn soldiers dit proof of their very prence.

C., signalg the war's begng, s gay Conferate and Unn soldiers didn't have to worry about Clton's famo 1993 "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy, which blatantly discrimat agast LGBTQ soldiers, unlike today's, did not have to bare their souls to disprove that ary reads is a heterosexual llg, nor did they have to prove that their patrtism to the e was dimished bee of their sexual served the Amerin Civil War. " And "un hn, " the big battleground issue today's ary, believg that the "homosexual gaze" would be the root e for the disptn -- which was totally bunked by a 2002 study -- was not an issue. But the qutn, some would argue, of who were LGBTQ servicemembers and who weren't the Amerin Civil War is a disgenuo query sce the words "homosexual" and "heterosexual" weren't part of the Amerin lexin until thirty years after the war end.

However, many would also argue that not havg an "official" word like "homosexual" back the day of the Civil War to pict same-sex attractn among soldiers do not negate our e of to scribe them this prent bg through Civil War battle rerds of Conferate and Unn soldiers, I fd, they were not only slghterg one another -- many were also "lovg" one another.

‘THE FACT THAT THEY ACCEPTED THE PARTY THE FIRST PLACE’: RTRANT ASSIGNS GAY AND BLACK EMPLOYE TO SERVE A CONFERATE PARTY

Usg archival documents such as urt-martial and medil rerds, newspaper articl, pornographic books and rds, and letters and diari of the soldiers, Lowry's foc was to addrs the problem of prostutn -- straight and gay -- and why both the Unn and Conferate Armi had to work to stop STIs (sexually transmted fectns) om cripplg their soldiers, bee STDs were stg more soldier's health and liv than actn on the battlefield. "History prov that LGBTQ servicemembers have been proudly and openly puttg our liv on the le for their untri sce Greeks favored gay and bisexual young men their ary. Historian Jonathan Katz has intified the great divi of the homosexual-heterosexual hypothis as a product of the closg s of the neteenth century.

Put simply, the words homosexual, bisexual, gay, and queer were not available to Civil War soldiers to scribe their eros.

Unn and Conferate soldiers did not thk of a sexual world habed by straight and gay men, bee that way of orrg the world had not yet been nstcted. To label Alphons Richter as gay or bisexual miss the plexy and queerns of his actual relatnships. In a time before the ventn of homosexualy as a ncept, Richter and Becker uld celebrate both their manls as soldiers and their timacy to fay and iends.

THE HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS, ALISON BECHL THE ‘NEW YORKER’, AND MORE LGBT NEWS

homosexual-heterosexual hypothis, most neteenth century sexuali are. f to the current world of the homosexual-heterosexual hypothis.

[2] For a treatment of Whman and Melville as gay.

Burg, Gay Warrrs: A. Men Before Homosexualy, (Chigo, IL: Universy of Chigo Prs, 2001). The bill would rve out a nscience exceptn permtg dividuals, church and bs to refe service to gay upl on the basis of relig belief.

GAY CONFERATE FLAG GIFTS

So the pizza makers who refe to ter gay weddgs (which seems like a vanishgly unlikely scenar anyway) and the unty clerks who don't thk gays should get married uld skip that law bee gay marriage go agast their relig precepts.

SHOW YOUR CONFERATE GAY PRI

To do otherwise would volve them a gay weddg ceremony, they argue!

Come on now, do anyone serly believe that the Christian god, who I have always been tght was one of love and fivens, is gog to ny someone entry to heaven bee they sold a gay uple a ke? The same legislatn that would enable religly-based discrimatn agast gays would also do so agast unmarried mothers.

ANTI-GAY CONFERATE FLAG SUPPORTG CONSERVATIV CALL FOR GAY FLAG BAN IN WAKE OF VIRGIA SHOOTER

Livgston Allen, unlike most of his more famo lleagu, left a plete versn of his lecture, which he self-published as Both Sis of Army Life: The Grave and the Gay.

Livgston Allen, Dcriptive Lecture: Both Sis of Army Life, the Grave and the Gay (np: The Author, 1885), 1.