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Gay And Lesbian Culture
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cuddyclothesThis entry is devoted to historical topics of gay and lesbian culture from the turn of the century to before World War 2. Suggestions are greatly appreciated!
How Gay Culture Blossomed During The Roaring Twenties This is a good once-over-lightly article about American attitudes.
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The wonderfulduskpeterson provided an ENORMOUS amount of links! To wit:
Rictor Norton's My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries includes this time period.
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Europe. Source texts from Paul Halsall's People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History.
Rather out of date, but I have a small website on Male Romantic Friendships in Historical Photography and Literature, covering this time period. For female romantic friendships, there is Lillian Faderman's Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present.
For those who want to explore what was happening between gay men in the USA, I heartily recommend George Chauncey's eye-opening book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. Also, Hidden from History, a collection of essays which Mr. Chauncey helped edit, partly covers this period, including British history.
More of my book recommendations are in the homosexuality, boarding school, and sexuality sections of my bibliography on everyday life in Victorian and Edwardian times.
Some general queer history resources that cover this period:
The wonderfully large and detailed glbtq Encyclopedia. No longer searchable by full text, alas, but you can browse the articles. A good place to start is with the article United Kingdom II: 1900 to the Present (PDF file).
Issues of the Journal of the History of Sexuality are on JSTOR and can be searched. Free access to JSTOR is currently expanded to 100 articles per month.
SexBiblio: bibliography of the history of western sexuality. A searchable database of 27,500 titles! Pick "bisexuality" or "homosexuality" in the descriptors field to narrow the search. You can search by country and time period. For example, "England," "Homosexuality," and "1900-1901" brings up 200 titles (that being the upper limit on search results, darn it). Or you can select the year(s) of publication.
And I just have to link to this glorious grab-bag of queer history links.
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How Gay Culture Blossomed During The Roaring Twenties This is a good once-over-lightly article about American attitudes.
~~~~
The wonderful
duskpeterson provided an ENORMOUS amount of links! To wit:Rictor Norton's My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries includes this time period.
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Europe. Source texts from Paul Halsall's People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History.
Rather out of date, but I have a small website on Male Romantic Friendships in Historical Photography and Literature, covering this time period. For female romantic friendships, there is Lillian Faderman's Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present.
For those who want to explore what was happening between gay men in the USA, I heartily recommend George Chauncey's eye-opening book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. Also, Hidden from History, a collection of essays which Mr. Chauncey helped edit, partly covers this period, including British history.
More of my book recommendations are in the homosexuality, boarding school, and sexuality sections of my bibliography on everyday life in Victorian and Edwardian times.
Some general queer history resources that cover this period:
The wonderfully large and detailed glbtq Encyclopedia. No longer searchable by full text, alas, but you can browse the articles. A good place to start is with the article United Kingdom II: 1900 to the Present (PDF file).
Issues of the Journal of the History of Sexuality are on JSTOR and can be searched. Free access to JSTOR is currently expanded to 100 articles per month.
SexBiblio: bibliography of the history of western sexuality. A searchable database of 27,500 titles! Pick "bisexuality" or "homosexuality" in the descriptors field to narrow the search. You can search by country and time period. For example, "England," "Homosexuality," and "1900-1901" brings up 200 titles (that being the upper limit on search results, darn it). Or you can select the year(s) of publication.
And I just have to link to this glorious grab-bag of queer history links.
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