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- 30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
- SECRET’S OUT ON THE HIDN LIFE OF GAY VICTORIANSHISTORIAN JEFF EVANS IS LOOKG AT ATTUS TO HOMOSEXUALY DURG THE LAST 150 YEARS. HE HAS NOW CHARTED MANCHTER’S ORIG AS BRA’S GAY PAL AFTER A PASTAKG TRAWL THROUGH THOANDS OF RERDS.MENBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYYAKUB QURHI09:00, 19 FEB 2011UPDATED02:29, 18 JAN 2013BOOKMARKON THE¿RECORD: JEFF EVANS HAS BEEN LOOKG AT URT PAPERS FOR EVINCE OF PROSECUTNS AGAST GAY MENSIGN UP TO THE MYSALFORD NEWSLETTER TO KEEP UP WH WHAT'S HAPPENG AND AROUND THE CYMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP TO THE MYSALFORD NEWSLETTER TO KEEP UP WH WHAT'S HAPPENG AND AROUND THE CYINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- BUT WERE THEY GAY? THE MYSTERY OF SAME-SEX LOVE THE 19TH CENTURY
30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
* famous gay victorians *
When the se reached urt, the physil examatns by police were found unreliable and the prosecutn was unable to prove that they had mted any homosexual offence. Gay sex was illegal at that time, but they cid not to prosecute him for sodomy, bee would set motn a slew of prosecutg every other man who participated homosexual sex. While mt have been obv back when he was alive, very few people today know that he was gay and that he had a lot of male lovers throughout his life durg the 1500s.
His first two victims were young gay men their late 20’s to early 30’s, and his third and fourth were both olr married men who had soliced his sexual servic.
One of the most ironic parts of the whole story was that Jeff Gannon often wrote for Republins, and had homophobic unrton his profsnal life, when he was actually sleepg wh men as “Bulldog”. This June the Molly Brown Hoe Mm has created a Thirsty Thursday event to ci wh Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Pri Month tled Queer the Age of the Queen.
SECRET’S OUT ON THE HIDN LIFE OF GAY VICTORIANSHISTORIAN JEFF EVANS IS LOOKG AT ATTUS TO HOMOSEXUALY DURG THE LAST 150 YEARS. HE HAS NOW CHARTED MANCHTER’S ORIG AS BRA’S GAY PAL AFTER A PASTAKG TRAWL THROUGH THOANDS OF RERDS.MENBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYYAKUB QURHI09:00, 19 FEB 2011UPDATED02:29, 18 JAN 2013BOOKMARKON THE¿RECORD: JEFF EVANS HAS BEEN LOOKG AT URT PAPERS FOR EVINCE OF PROSECUTNS AGAST GAY MENSIGN UP TO THE MYSALFORD NEWSLETTER TO KEEP UP WH WHAT'S HAPPENG AND AROUND THE CYMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP TO THE MYSALFORD NEWSLETTER TO KEEP UP WH WHAT'S HAPPENG AND AROUND THE CYINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
In 1890 philosopher and psychologist William Jam went so far as to theorize that while the male repulsn of homosexualy is stctive, cultur which homosexualy is regularly practiced and his view tolerated, mt have only been achieved by overg the “natural” aversn through force of hab. In a 1908 cross-cultural study, philosopher and soclogist Edward Wtermarck me to siar ncln, but extend his theori to addrs the rejectn of homosexualy by relig stutns. Durg this perd self proclaimed sexologists Richard von Kraft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis are said to have pneered the would-be scientific study of sexualy and created tegori for homosexualy and heterosexualy.
Historian Jonathan Ned Katz has poted out that heterosexualy too was vented as an inty ncept durg this time by proxy of the creatn of a signatn for homosexualy.
Holly Furnex of the Universy of London has argued that the homo social nature of Victorian society acmodated a wi range of queer sir as well as non-maral and non-reproductive impuls. In the Uned Stat Thomas Jefferson proposed a law Virgia that would have ma sodomy punishable by stratn, which was nsired a liberal approach nsirg that the practice had been to put those acced of homosexual behavr to be put to ath. Gay men were monly seen by society as perverts who had chosen their sexualy, or as diseased dividuals whose sexualy was ed by their upbrgg and blogy, and not somethg they were born wh.
BUT WERE THEY GAY? THE MYSTERY OF SAME-SEX LOVE THE 19TH CENTURY
The Victorian era is important to be looked at so that we know the cultural ntext which Osr Wil ed to live homosexualy went agast the notn of masculy, was talked about rarely and threatened the fay stcture as well as was believed to go agast beg fundamentally Brish. Discsns about homosexualy among society was very mimal bee Victorian cizens tried to ignore the fact ncept that mal might have sexual relatnship wh other mal. Many believed that one uld be moral and at the same time have sexual was one of the reasons why homosexualy was extremely problematic issue the Brish society faced at that time.
In the fundamental Brish society, was embarrassg to speak of this sexual was only when the trials of Osr Wil were gog on that the term and ia of classifyg homosexualy me to limelight.
Observable homosexualyEven though heterosexualy was nsired normal and natural throughout Victorian era, there is seen visible crease homosexualy pecially among men as well as telligentsia durg that perd of history.