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BUT WERE THEY GAY? THE MYSTERY OF SAME-SEX LOVE THE 19TH CENTURY

The Cambridge Compann to Amerin Gay and Lbian Lerature - May 2015 * gay writers 19th century *

"Walt Whman and Gay Liberatn are nearly synonymo for me, " wrote cultural historian Rictor Norton a 1999 say. "It's hard to image any morn poet wrg about lyg another man's arms and then llg homosexualy "damnable.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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""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

Fd out the 25 Most Influential Gay Authors You Should Know About 1. Osr Wil 2. Jam Baldw 3. Tennsee Williams 4. Gore Vidal 5. Edmund Whe. * gay writers 19th century *

"There was an urgency, a novelty to the whole thg, " said the gay thor, who won the Man Booker Prize for The Le of Bety.

25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Go Tell It on the Mounta, for example, is not about a church, and Gvanni is not really about homosexualy.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY WRITERS 19TH CENTURY

A brief history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr social movements .

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