I: Bibliographical Resources
Arts and Humanities Citations Index, (Philadelphia: Institute for
Scientific Information)
[complicated and complete]
Bullough Vern, Dorr Legg, Barry Elcano et al, eds. An Annotated Bibliography of
Homosexuality and Other Stigmatized Behavior, (New York: Garland, 1976)
Elcano, Barry, & Vern Bullough, Bibliography of Prostitution, (New York:
Garland, 1976)
Dynes Wayne, Homosexuality: A Research Guide, (New York and London: Garland,
1987)
Indispensable, wonderful and massive annotated bibliography of all areas of lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgendered studies. Does not cover fiction. An essential starting
point for lesbian and gay studies. 4858 citations, most heavily annotated. But note this
cannot be depended on now - much work has been done since its publication. Since 1987 a
lot of new publications have transformed the field of LGBT history - look for Dyne's
promised second edition.
Dynes, Wayne, ed., Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, 2 vols, (Garden City, NY:
Garland, 1989)
Dynes, Wayne, and Stephen Donaldson, eds., History of homosexuality in Europe and
America, (New York : Garland Pub., 1992)
Collected articles.
Fout, John C., A select bibliography on the history of sexuality,
(Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y : Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, Bard College, 1989)
Foster. Jeannette H., Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantative
Survey 2nd ed., (New York: Vantage Press, 1956)(repr. Baltimore: Diana Press, 1975)
Geloof, kerk en Homoseksualiteit, (Amsterdam: NVIH-COC, 1984)
22 page bibliography of Dutch language books and articles.
Halsall, Paul, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Catholic Bibliography,
Very large bibliography on Christianity, Judaism, and Homosexuality.
Herzer, Manfred, Bibliographie zur Homosexualitat : Verzeichnis des
deutschsprachigen nichtbelletristischen Schrifttums zur weiblichen und mannlichen
Homosexualitat : aus den Jahren 1466 bis 1975, (Berlin: Winkel, 1982)
Horner, Tom, Homosexuality and the Judeo-Christian Tradition: An Annotated
Bibliography, (New York: ATLA - Bibliographical Series No. 5, 1981)
Humanities Index, (New York: H.W. Wilson, 1974-) [Complete and easy to use]
Journal
of the History of Sexuality: Cumulative List of Articles
International Medieval Bibliography, ed. R.S. Hoyt & P.H. Sawyer, (Leeds
& Minneapolis: 1967- ) [Contains references in foreign languages. Easy to use. Needs a
better indexing system]
Katz, Jonathan, A Gay Bibliography: Eight Bibliographies on Lesbianism and Male
Homosexuality, (New York: 1975)
The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography 2nd ed., (Reno, Nevada: The Ladder,
1975)
Medieval Studies: A Bibliographical Guide, ed. Everrett V. Crosby et al, (New
York: Garland, 1983)
Parker, William, ed., "Homosexuality and History: An Annotated Bibliography", Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 191-211 [123 entries. Well annotated]
Parker, William, ed., Homosexuality: Bibliography Supplement, (Metuchen, NJ.:
Scarecrow Press, 1977)
Parker, William, ed., Homosexuality: A Selective Bibliography of Over 3000 Items,
(Metuchen, NJ.: Scarecrow Press, 1971)
Porter, Jack Nusan, Sexual Politics in the Third Reich: The Persecution of the
Homosexuals during the Holocaust: A Bibliography and Introductory Essay, (Newton,
Mass.: The Spencer Press :8 Burnside Rd., 02161:, 1991), ISBN 0-932270, 21 p.
Recently Published Articles, pub. by American Historical Association
[complete, but no index and so difficult and time-consuming]
Weinberg, M., & A. Bell, Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography, (New
York: 1972)
Much old-fashioned psychological literaure reviewed.
Women in Western European History: A Select Chronological, Geographical and Topical
Bibliography: Vol I: Antiquity to the French Revolution, (1982)
Young, Ian, The Male Homosexual in Literature, (Metuchen, NJ.: Scarecrow Press,
1975)
Also useful bibliographies below in Adam, Boswell, Bullough (Sexual Variance),
Goodich (Unmentionable Vice), Greenberg, Greenberg & Bystryn and Kuster & Cormier.
Many academic journals now accept articles on homosexuality. Of special interest
are:-
GLQ
More literary and social "criticism than" history.
Journal
of the History of Sexuality: Homepage
Now the premier journal in the field.
Journal of Homosexuality
Tends to reissue many volumes as edited article collections.
Journal of Sex Research
Signs
II: History of Homosexuality - General Works
A: Theory
Abelove, Henry, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin, eds, The Lesbian and Gay
Studies Reader, (New York: Routledge: 1993)
Selection of forty two of the most important theoretical and historical writings in
Lesbian and Gay Studies.
Dennis Altman: On Global
Queering [Australian Humanities Review]
With Responses from Gary Dowsett , Michael Tan, Donald Morton , Christopher Lane , David
Halperin and Fran Martin
Beemyn, Brett and Mickey Elianon, eds., Queer Studies : A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
& Transgender Anthology, (New York: New York Univ Press, 1996)
Boswell, John, "Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories ", Salmagundi 58-59 (1982-83), 89- 113, reprinted in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George
Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 17-36
The prime explicit defence by the historian most frequently idenitified as an
"essentialist".
Boyarin, Daniel. "Are There Any Jews in `The History of Sexuality'?" Journal
of the History of Sexuality 5:3 (1995): 333-55.
Boyarin, Daniel. Unheroic conduct : the rise of heterosexuality and the invention of
the Jewish man Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
Bullough, Vern L., "Sex in History: A Virgin Field", Journal of Sex
Research 8 (1972), pp. 101-16, repr. in Vern L. Bullough, Sex, Society and History,
(New York: Science History Publications, 1976)
Bell, Shannon. "`Pictures don't lie. Pictures tell it all.'" Journal of
the History of Sexuality 6:2 (1995): 284-321.
Beemyn, Brett, ed. Queer studies : a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender
anthology, (New York : New York University Press, c1996.)
Chauncey, George, Jr., "From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality ", Salmagundi 58-59 (1982-83), 114-46
Cohen, Colleen Ballerino, and Karen Robertson. "Historical Presences, Present
Silences: A Critical Analysis of Fragments for a History of the Human Body." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 3:1 (1992): 129-40. [REVIEW ESSAY].
Cohen, Ed, Talk on the Wilde Side: Towards a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male
Sexualities, (New York: Routledge, 199?)
Daniel, Marc, "A Methodology for the Study of Historical aspects of
Homosexuality", ONE Institute Quarterly 3 (1960), pp. 268-280
Dollmore, Jonathan, Sexual Dissidence: Ausgutine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault,
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1991)
Influential, but a tough read.
Duberman, Martin, ed., A Queer World : The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader,
(New York: New York Univ Press, 1997)
Evans, David T., Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities,
(New York: Routledge, 1993)
Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. "People of the Body: The Problem of the Body for the
People of the Book." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:1 (1991): 1-24.
Foucault, Michel, History of Sexuality, Vol I: An Introduction, (New
York: Pantheon, 1978)
Almost more like a meditation than history. Leading French structuralist applies his view
of human society, already seen in his history of madness, to sexuality. Argues that
sexuality is "constructed" in each society, in a similar manner to
language/grammar. This goes against Boswell's idea of "homosexuality" as a
continuing part of the human condition. Foucault's ideas, along with Levi-Strauss's have
heavily influenced other modern gay historians such as Weeks and Katz, who however, set
the formation of modern homosexual consciousness at different periods. The conflict
between Boswell and the others is as much an issue of philosophy as history.]
Foucault, Michel, History of Sexuality, Vol II:
Foucault, Michel, History of Sexuality, Vol III:
Fradenburg, Louise, and Carla Freccero, Premodern sexualities, (New York :
Routledge, 1996)
Gilbert, Arthur N., "Conceptions of Homosexuality and Sodomy in Western
History", Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 57-68
Discusses two approaches to history of homosexuality: to look at famous individuals; or to
look at what was the (hostile) view of society.]
Greyling, Marc [marcg@eagles.bbs.net.au], "Inventing Queer Place: Social space and
the urban environment as factors in the writing of gay, lesbian and transgender
histories", (nd: URL http://maya.eagles.bbs.net.au/~marcg/queer-pl.html)
Greenberg, David F., The Construction of Homosexuality, (Chicago: Chicago UP,
1988)
Recent exposition of the social construction school. Has an extensive historical
survey.
Reviews
Boswell, John, "Books: Gay History", The Atlantic Feb 1989; 263:2 p.
74-78
Brundage, James A, Church History Mar 1991; 60:1 p. 148-149
Jagose, Annamarie, Queer Theory : An Introduction, (New York: New York Univ
Press, 1997)
[From blurb] In Queer Theory: An Introduction, Annamarie Jagose provides a clear and
concise explanation of queer theory, tracing it as part of an intriguing history of
same-sex love over the last century, from mid-century homophile movements to gay
liberation, the women's movement and lesbian feminism, to the re-appropriation of the term
"queer". Carefully interrogating the arguments of supporters and opponents of
queer theory, Jagose suggests that its strength lies in its questioning of the very idea
of sexual identities. Blending insights from prominent queer theorists such as Judith
Butler and David Halperin, Jagose argues that queer theory's challenge is to create new
ways of thinking, not only about fixed sexual identities such as heterosexual and
homosexual, but also about other supposedly essential notions such as
"sexuality" and "gender" and even "man" and
"woman".
Herdt, Gilbert, "Representations of Homosexuality: An Essay on Cultural Ontology
and Historical Comparison." Part I, Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3
(1991): 481-504; Part II, Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:4 (1991): 603-32.
Herdt, Gilbert, ed., Same Sex, Different Cultures : Gays and Lesbians Across
Cultures, (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1997)
Koehl, Robert B. et al., CLAGS PAPERS in Queer Representations, (New York: New
York University Press, 1997), ed. Martin Duberman, pp. 7-54.
Koehl, Robert B., "Ephoros and Ritualized Homosexuality in Bronze Age Crete,"
pp. 7-13;
DeVries, Keith, "The 'Frigid Eromenoi' and Their Wooers Revisited: A Closer Look at
Greek Homosexuality in Vase Painting," pp. 14-24.;
Williams, Craig A., "Pudicitia and Pueri: Roman Concepts of Male Sexual
Experience," pp. 25-38.;
Halperin, David M., "Questions of Evidence: Commentary on Koehl, DeVries, and
Williams," pp. 39-54.
Kitzinger, Celia, Social Construction of Lesbianism, (?:Sage 1988)
Macintosh, Mary, "The Homosexual Role", Social Problems 16:2 (1968)
182-92, repr. in in Kenneth Plummer, ed., The Making of the Modern Homosexual,
(London: Hutchinson, 1981)
Vastly influential article. The classic statement of the social constructionis
position.
Marshall, John, "Pansies, Perverts and Macho Men: Changing Conceptions of Male
Homosexuality ", in Kenneth Plummer, ed., The Making of the Modern Homosexual,
(London: Hutchinson, 1981), 133-54
Mangan, J. A. "Men, Masculinity, and Sexuality: Some Recent Literature." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 3:2 (1992): 303-13 [REVIEW ESSAY].
Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian), Perilous enlightenment : pre- and post-modern
discourses : sexual, historical, (Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University
Press ; New York : [Distrib.] St. Martin's Press, c1991]
Padoug, Robert, "Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History", Radical
History Review 20 (1979). 2-23, reprinted in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and
George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 54-66
An early and influential exposition of "social constructionist" approaches.
Parker, Richard G., and John H. Gagnon, Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex
Research in a Postmodern World, (New York: Routledge, 199?)
Plummer, Kenneth, ed., The Making of the Modern Homosexual, (London: Hutchinson,
1981)
Raffo, Susan, ed., Queerly Classed, (Boston: South End Press, 1997)
Ruch, Libby O. "Sexual Violence against Women." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 2:4 (1992): 634-40 [REVIEW ESSAY].
Stein, Edward, Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist
Controversy, (New York: Routledge, 199?)
Vance, Carol, "Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of
Sexuality", in Homosexuality. Which Homosexuality?, ed. Theo van der Meer and
Anja van Kooten Niekerk, (London: 1989)
Weeks, Jeffrey, Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain From the Nineteenth
Century to the Present, rev. ed. (New York & London: Quartet, 1990)
first ed. 1977 {Rev. in Jnl.Homo 6 (1980), pp. 214-219}
Week, Jeffrey, "Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance" in Kenneth Plummer,
ed., The Making of the Modern Homosexual, (London: Hutchinson, 1981), 76-111
Weeks, Jeffrey, Sex, Politics and Society, (London: Longman, 1981)
Weeks, Jeffrey, Sexuality and its Discontents, (London: 19 )
Whittam, F.L., "The Homosexual Role: A Reconsideration", Journal of Sex
Research 13:1 (1977) 1-11,
B: History
Among Men, Among Women: Sociological and Historcial Recognition of
Homosocial Arrangements, (Gay Studies and Women's Studies Conference, University of
Amsterdam, 22-26 June 1983), collected papers, (Amsterdam: Sociological Institute,
University of Amsterdam, 1983)Aries, Philippe & Andre Bejin, eds., Western
Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985; orig.
pub. as Sexualities Occidentales, Paris: Editions du Seuil/Communications, 1982)
The Bible,
References to homosexuality (some only possible):- Old Testament: Genesis 13:13,
18:20-22, 19:4-8. 19:24-25, Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Deuteronomy 23:17-18, Judges 19:22-24, Ruth 1:16-17, II Samuel 1:26, I Kings 14:24,
15:12, 22:46, II Kings 23:7, Proverbs 10:9 New Testament: Romans 1:24-32, I Corinthians 6:9-10, Galatians 5:19-21, I Timothy 1:9-10, II
Peter 2:6, Jude 1:7, Revelations 21:8, 22:15
Bravmann, Scott, Queer fictions of the past : history, culture, and difference Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,1997.
Bullough, Vern L., "Homosexuality and the Medical Model", Journal of
Homosexuality 1:6 (1975), pp. 99-110
Bullough, Vern L., Sexual Variance in Society and History, (Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago Press, 1976)
Large scale survey of both western and eastern cultures in all historical periods.
Groundbreaking work, but only a beginning. Has one of few discussions of Byzantine
homosexuality. Has good references and foot notes
Bullough, Vern L., Sex, Society and History, (New York: Science History
Publications, 1976)
Bullough, Vern L., Homosexuality: A History, (New York: New American Library,
1979)
Bullough, Vern L. and Bonnie Bullogh, Cross-Dressing, Sex, and Gender,
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvanis Press, 1993)
Coote, Stephen, ed., The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse, (Harmondsworth: Allen
Lane, Penguin, 1983)
Poetry from Homer to today.
Cory, Donald W., Homosexuality: A Cross Cultural Approach, (New York: Julian
Press, 1956)
Collects important early papers by authors such as Richard Burton, Westermarck, Havelock
Ellis, Symondsetc.
Crompton, Louis, "Gay Genocide: From Leviticus to Hitler" in Louie Crew, ed., The Gay Academic, (Palm Springs, Ca.: Etc. Publications, 1978), pp. 67-91
Polemical title. Evidence of 200+ gay men and women put to death in the past, as well as
100-400,000 during the Third Reich. The German figures are very inflated.
Daniel, M. & A. Baudry, Les Homosexuels, (Tournai: 1973)
deBecker, Raymond, The Other Face of Love, (New York: Grove Press, 1969; &
London: Sphere Books), trans. Margaret Crosland and Alan Daventry
Survey from Ancient times to now, with concentration on Christian world from early middle
ages. Contains 172 pictures.
Duberman, Martin, Queer Representations, (New York: New York University Press,
1997)
Duberman, Martin Bauml, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From
History, New York: NAL, 1989)
An important collection of essays and articles on a broad stretch of lesbian and gay
history. Very informative introduction on basic parameters.
Ellis, Havelock, "Sexual Inversion",in Studies in the Psychology of Sex 2 vols., (New York: Random House, 1905), Vol 1, pp. 1-64
One of the earliest pieces of work. Looks at where and when homosexuality has been
tolerated, and lists famous gays.
Fleming, Thomas, "Criminalizing a Marginal Community",in Deviant
Designations, ed. Thomas Fleming and L.A. Visono, (Toronto: Butterworths, 198?)
Fone, Byrne R.S., "Some Notes Toward a History of Gay People", The
Advocate no. 259 (Jan 25, 1979), pp. 17-19 & no. 260 (Feb 28, 1979), pp. 11-13
Argues that there is material for a history of homosexuality, at least for some times.
Fone, Byrne R.S., ed., Hidden Heritage: History and the Gay Imagination: An
Anthology, (New York: Avocation Publishers, 1980)
Eclectic selection of sources and commentators covering Greece, Christianity, the middle
ages and the 18th and 19th centuries. Some are not easily available elsewhere such as J.A.
Symonds' "The Dantesque and Platonic Ideals of Love"
Fout, John C., ed., Forbidden History: The State, Society, and the Regulation of
Sexuality in Modern Europe, (Essays from the [I]Journal of the History of
Sexuality[I]). (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) Essays by Randolph Trumbach on
"Sex, Gender, and Identity in Modern Culture: Male Sodomy and Female Prostitution in
Enlightenment London"; Ruth Perry on "Colonizing the Breast: Sexuality and
Maternity in Eighteenth Century England"; Theo van der Meer on "Female Same-Sex
Offenders in Late Eighteenth Century Amsterdam"; Robin Ann Sheets on
"Pornography, Fairy Tales, and Feminism: Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber'";
and James W. Jones on "Discourses on and of AIDS in West Germany, 1986-1990."
Frantzen, Allen J., Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in
America, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999?
Garde, Noel I., Jonathan to Gide: The Homosexual in History, (New York: Vantage
Press, 1964)
Biographical sketches of 303 men in chronological orders. Gives the refs. that justify
each inclusion. Is the author's name a puzzle?
Garber, Marjorie, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, (
London: Routledge, 1992; pb. New York: HarperPerenniel, 1993)
Discusses transvestism throughout history. Excellent references but no bibliography.
Hekma, Gert, Harry Oosterhuis, James Steakley, eds., Gay men and the sexual history
of the political left, (Binghamton, N.Y. : Haworth Press, c1995), also issued as Journal
of homosexuality 29: 2-4 (1995)
Covers Europe and the US.
Hardman, Paul D., Homoaffectionalism : male bonding from Gilgamesh to the present,
(San Francisco : NF Division, GLB Publishers, 1993)
Herdt, Gilbert , ed. Third sex, third gender : beyond sexual dimorphism in
culture and history, (New York: Zone Books, 1994)
Hirschfeld, Magnus, Die Transvestiten, (Berlin: Alfred Pulvermacher, 1910)
Hirschfeld, Magnus, Die Homosexualitat 2nd ed., (Berlin: Louis Marcus, 1914,
1920)
By the most important founder of the early German gay rights movement. Provides list of
important homosexuals in history.
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Love That Dared Not Speak its Name: A Candid History of
Homosexuality in Britain, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970)
From William II to the present Queen.]
Jennings, Kevin, Becoming Visible : A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High
School and College Students, (Boston: Alyson, 1994)
Selections from a number of authors for use in High School LGB history courses.
Katz, Jonathan Ned, The Invention of Heterosexuality, (New York: Dutton,
1995)
Katz extends the social constructionist understanding to heterosexuality.
Karlen, Arno, Sexuality and Homosexuality: A New View, (New York: W.W. Norton,
1971)
Early overview. No footnotes, Superseded by Bullough's Sexual Variance. Homophobic
Kepner, Jim, Becoming a People: A 4000 Year Gay and Lesbian Chronology, rev.
ed.,(Los Angeles: International Gay and Lesbian Archives, 1994)
Kirsch, John, & James Rodman, "The Natural History of Homosexuality", Yale
Scientific Magazine 51:3 (1977), 7-13
Lamm, N., "Judaism and the Modern Attitude to Homosexuality", in Jewish
Bioethics, ed. F. Rosner & J.D. Bloch, (New York: Sanhedrin Press, Hebrew
Publishing Co, 1979), pp. 197-218
Lamm is the leader of Yeshiva University, and no friend of :GB groups there.
Lerner, Gerda, The Creation of Patriarchy, (New York: Oxford UP, 1986)
Traces it all the way back to Meopotamia. An important feminist text.
Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen, eds., The Gay Past: A Collection
of Historical Essays, (New York & London: Harrington Park Press, 1985), repr.
of Historical Perspectives on Homosexuality (1981), which was a repr. of Journal
of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980)
Very useful edition of interdisciplinary journal. Many of the articles are cited
elsewhere..
Lloyde, Robin, "The History of Boy Prostitution" in For Money or Love: Boy
Prostitution in America, (New York: Vanguard Press, 1976; paperback, New York:
Ballantine)
Superficial discussion of boy prostitution through history.
McNeill, John, The Church and the Homosexual 4th ed., (Boston: 1993, 1st ed.
1976)
Mayne, Xavier (pseud. of Edward I.P. Stevenson), The Intersexes: A History of
Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, (New York: Arno Press, 1975, originally
pub. privately 1908)
Survey of homosexuality from early times, especially amongst rulers, aristocrats,
soldiers, athletes, religious, and intellectual leaders. A very early American study.
Miller, Neil, Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present,
(New York: Vintage, 1995)
Readable (ie popular, not academic), and extensive (over 600 pages), account of modern
lesbian and gay history in Europe and the Americas. Based on much of the academic research
of recent years.
Quill, Zachary, Homosexuality Throughout the Ages, (Los Angeles: Wiz Books,
1969)
Rattray Taylor, G., Sex in History, (New York: Vanguard Press, 1954: Taylor, pb.
New York; Harper and Row, 1973)
A book club favorite.
Rattray Taylor, G., "Historical and Mythological Aspects of Homosexuality" in
Judd Marmor, ed., Sexual Inversion: The Multiple Roots of Homosexuality, (New York:
Basic Books, 1965)
Thinks source material for a history of homosexuality is only available from 17th century.
Later writers seem to have proved him pessimistic.
Robinson, Victor, ed., Encyclopaedia Sexualis: A Comprehensive Encyclopaedia-Grammar
of the Sexual Sciences, (New York: Dingwall-Rock, 1936)
Rowse, Alfred, L., Homosexuals in History: Ambivalence in Society, Literature and
the Arts, (New York: Macmillan, 1977)
Classic example of biographical approach to homosexuality in history. Believes that
homosexuals are more creative than straights..
Ruse, Michael, Homosexuality: A Philosophical Inquiry, (Oxford: Basil Balckwell,
1988)
Ruse' philosphical inquiry is not a history at all, but focuses a sharp intelligence on
Freud, biology, sociobiology and natural law.
Schlick, J & M.V. Zimmermann, The Homosexual in Civil and Religious Societies,
(title is in French) {Reviewed in Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 2(64)
(1987), p. 327}
Sole, Jacque, L'amour en Occident a l'epoque moderne, (Paris: Albin Michel,
1976)
Based on a too easy dichotomy between women-esteeming and women-denying societies. Argues
that the latter are the ones which denigrate homosexuality.
Spencer, Colin, Homosexuality: A History, (London: Fourth Estate, 1995; New
York: Harcourt Brace, 1995)
Journalistic and under-referenced. In general it does not get beyond the approach of
Rowse, and a great gays of history methodology.
Vanggaard, Thorkil, Phallos: A Symbol and Its History in the Male World, (New
York: International Universities Press, 1973)
Includes information on Scandinavia.
C: Readers
There has been a recent flury of "readers" and "sourcebooks" in
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, and Queer Studies. Since these both collect numerous
important essays, and are useful for class assignment, the titles are presented togther
here, for convenience.
Abelove, Henry, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin, eds., The Lesbian and Gay
Studies Reader, (New York: Routledge: 1993)[800 pages]
Selection of some of forty two of the important theoretical and historical writings in
Lesbian and Gay Studies. Virtually no history as such. [666 pages]
I. Politics and Representation
Gayle S. Rubin: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality, 3
Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick: Epistemology of the closet, 45
Stuart Hall: Deviance, politics and the media, 65
Marilyn Frye: Some reflections on seperatism and power, 91
Barbara Smith: Homophobia: why bring it up? 99
Monique Wittig: One is not born a woman, 103
Ana Maria Alonso and Mari Teresa Koreck: Silences: "Hispanics", AIDS and sexual
practices, 110
Cindy Patton: From Nation to Family: Containg African AIDS
II. Spectacular Logic
Teresa De Lauretis: Sexual indifference and lesbian representation, 141
Phillip Brian Harper: Eloquence and epitaph: Black nationalism and the homophobic impulse
in response to the death of Max Robinson, 159
Sasha Torres: Television/Feminism: Heartbeat and prime time lesbianism, 176
Simon Watney: The Spectacle of AIDS, 202
III. Subjectivity, Discipline, Resistence
IV. The Uses of the Erotic
V. The Evidence of Experience
VI. Collective Identities/Dissident Identities
VII. Between the Pages
Blasius, Mark and Shane Phelan, eds, We are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of
Gay and Lesbian Politics, (New York : Routledge, 1997) [600 pages] Massive compilation
of documents. In fact, its is too big for its paperback covers.
I. Pre-History of a Lesbian and Gay Movement
A. Enlightenment Backgrounds
B. The French Revolution: Sexual Liberation and Political Speech
II. The Beginnings of a Gay and Lesbian Movement
A. The Third Sex Theory and the Creation of Political Subjects
B. The Emergence of a Gay and Lesbian Political Culture in Germany
C. Voices of the Gay and Lesbian Diaspora: Britain and France
D. From Liberalism to the New Social Relations of Soviet Socialism
E. Subculture, Censorship, and Civil Rights in the United States
III. The Homophile Movement: 1950-1969
IV. Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism
V. The Gay and Lesbian Politics of AIDS
VI. The Present Moment and the Future of Desire
Comstock, Gary David, and Susan E. Henking, eds., Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical
Anthology, (New York: Continuum, 1997)
Contains 39 previously published articles and book chapters:
I: History
II: Tradition
III: Culture and Society
IV: Scripture and Myth
Duberman, Martin, ed., A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader,
(New York: New York University Press, 1997)
Gross, Larry, and James D. Woods, eds., Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in
American Society, Politics and the Media, (New York: Columbia University Press,
1997)[forthcoming]
Jennings, Kevin, ed., Becoming Visible : A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for
High School and College Students, (Boston: Alyson, 1994)
Selections from a number of authors for use in High School LGB history courses.
Lancaster, Roger and Micaela di Leonardo, eds., The Gender/Sexuality Reader:
Culture, History, Political Economy,(New York: Routledge: 1997) [550 pages]
McCormick, Ian, ed., Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century
Writing, (New York: Routledge, 1997) [272 pages]
Introduction
Anatomies
Crimes
Representations
Sapphism
Morton, Donald, ed., The Material Queer: A LesBiGay Cultural Studies Reader,
(Boulder CO: Westview, 1996)
Contains previously published articles addressing Queer Studies with a from the
perspectives of materialism, Marxism, and Deconstruction. readers need a high tolerance
for a critical jargon which may date rather rapidly. Uniquely for one of these books,
Morton also lists important articles from which he was not granted reprint permission. The
working bibliography is excellent. The sections are:
Intro: Queer Consensus/Socialist Conflict
Dossier 1: Outing the Concepts
Dossier 2: Signsex
Dossier 3: Identity Matters
Dossier 4: Queer Desire
See also the collections of Articles by Wayne Dynes and Stephen Donaldson:-
Dynes, Wayne, and Stephen Donaldson, eds., History of Homosexuality in Europe and
America, (New York : Garland Pub., 1992) Collected articles.
Dynes, W. R & Donaldson, S, eds. Studies in Homosexuality, I: Homosexuality in
the Ancient World
Collected essays, (New York: Garland, 1992)
Dynes, Wayne, and Stephen Donaldson, eds., Ethnographic Studies of Homosexuality, (New
York : Garland Pub., 1992)
Collected articles.
Dynes, Wayne R. and Stephen Donaldson, eds. Asian Homosexuality, (New York :
Garland Pub., 1992)
Collected articles
III: Antiquity
A. Sources
These texts come in multiple editions and translations, which are not
indicated. If online, the link works
ANCIENT NEAR EAST
GREEK SOURCES
Achilles Tatius (2nd C. CE): Women
unfavourably compared with boy lovers. Egypt, 2nd cent. A.D., from Leucippe and
Clitophon 2.37.5-9, 38.1-3. G [At UKY]
Aeschines (c.390-c.322 BCE): Against Timarchus,
[At Perseus, in English, with Greek text accessible ]
Aristophanes (c.445-c.385 BCE): The Clouds,
[At Perseus, in English, with Greek text accessible ]
Aristophanes (c.445-c.385 BCE): The Knights,
[At Perseus, in English, with Greek text accessible ]
Aristophanes (c.445-c.385 BCE): The
Thesmophoriazusae, [At Perseus, in English, with Greek text accessible]
Aristotle (384-322 BCE): Politics e.g., 1274, 1311, 1315
Aristotle (384-322 BCE): Nichomachean Ethics, 1148
Athenaeus (c. 200 CE): The Deipnosophists, Book 13
Demosthenes (384-322 BCE): Erotic Essay, [At
Perseus, in English, with Greek text accessible ]
Homer (c.850 BCE), Achilles Meets the
Ghost of Patroclus, Illiad 23, [At Perseus, in English, with Greek text
accessible ]
Plato (427-347 BCE): The Symposium (complete in one file,
English); The
Symposium, [At Perseus, in English, with Greek text accessible ]
Plato (427-347 BCE): Phreadrus,
(complete in one file, English), [At UPenn] ; Phreadrus,
[At Perseus, in English, with Greek text accessible ]
Plato (427-347 BCE): The Laws; The Laws,
636bff [At Perseus, in English, with Greek text accessible ]
Plutarch (46-120 CE): Parallel Lives,
(complete in English) [At Virginia Tech ]
Plutarch (46-120 CE): Life of
Pelopidas, (complete) [At Virginia Tech ]
Ps.-Lucian (Lucian c.115-180 CE): The History of Orestes and Pylades, from Amores or Affairs of the Heart
Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE): on Aristogeiton and Harmodius,
from The Peloponnesian War. Full Text available at MIT.
Sappho (late 7th C. BCE): Poems,
[At Sappho.com ]
Theocritus (c.320-c.260 BCE): Idylls 5, 12, 30 (all autobiographical), 13, and 23
ROMAN
Catullus: Selected
Poems, selections, trans. John Porter, [At Univ. of Saskatechewan ]
Juvenal (early 2nd C. CE): Satire II - Against
Hypocritical Queens [At Classics Homepage. In Latin ]
Juvenal (early 2nd C. CE): Satire IX
Martial (c.40-103 CE): Epigrams
Ovid (43BCE-17CE): Metamorphoses,
[At Virginia Tech ]
Ovid (43BCE-17CE): Amores,
selections, trans. John Porter, [At Univ. of Saskatechewan ]
Ovid (43BCE-17CE): Art of Love esp. 2. 663-746 and 3.769-812.
Petronius Arbiter (d.65 CE): Satyricon
Suetonius (b.c.70 d. after 121 CE): Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Tacitus (b. 56/57-d.after 117 CE):
Tibullus (c.55-19 BCE):
Virgil (70-19 BCE): Aeneid
9
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A study of the love between Hadrian and Antinous, who after his death became the last of
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A significant attack on the Foucault/Halperin/Winkler thesis that
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IV: The Middle Ages
A: Sources
Alan of Lille, The Plaint of Nature (De Planctu Naturae), trans.
James J. Sheridan, (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieaval Studies, 1980): see an
older translation of The
Plaint of Nature, [At Medieval Sourcebook]
Bachelor Jr. E., Homosexuality and Ethics, (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1980)
Excerpts from authors from Plato to modern times on ethical issues
Baudri de Bourgueil, Les Oeuvres poetiques de Baudri de Bourgueil, ed. Phyllis
Abrahams, (Paris: Librarie Ancienne Honore Champion, 1926) (repr; Geneva, Slatkine
Reprints, 1974)
St. Bernadino of Siena, Le prediche volgari, ed. Piero Bargellini, (Milan:
Rizzoli, 1936)
Included two visicious vernacular anti-homosexual sermons by this 15th century saint, #35
(795-97), and #39 (893-919). Other references in his Latin works, sermons 11 and 15 in Opera
Omnia, (Florence: 1950)
Bieler, Ludwig, The Irish Penitentials, (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced
Studies, 1963)
Includes Latin text. Homosexuality pp. 66-67. Does not translate parts he seems to
consider vulgar.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, trans. John A. Carlyle, Thomas Okey &
P.H. Wicksteed, (New York: Random House, 1950; original publication details not given)
Inferno Cantos xi, xiv, xv, and Purgatorio xxvi all possibly deal with
sodomy.
Francis, W.Nelson, ed., The Book of Vices and Virtues, Early English Text
Society Vol 217, (London: Oxford UP, 1942)
Edited from 3 extant texts of the French of Lorens d'Orleans Somme Le Roi - a
vernacular penitential. Homosexuality p.43)
Goodich, Michael, The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Late Medieval Period,
(Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-Clio, 1979)
Includes a 30-page translation/extract from inquisition records of Jacques Fournier in the
13th century.
Mansi, J.D.: Sacrum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio, (Florence &
Venice: 1759-1798)
Peter Damian, Liber Gomorrhanius in MPL 145, cols. 159190, and as Book
of Gomorrah: An Eleventh Century Treatise Against Clerical Homosexual Practice, trans.
Pierre J. Payer, (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1982)
One of the strongest attacks in the middle ages on homosexuality. The only surviving one
it seems.
Stehling, Thomas, trans., Medieval Latin Poems of Male Love and Friendship, (New
York: Garland, 1984)
Gay medieval literature from the Roman Empire to 1300. Alcuin, Ausonius, Luxorius,
Abelard, Baudri or Bourgueil, Hilderbert of Lauardin.
McNeill, John & Helena Gamer, Medieval Handbooks of Penance: A Translation of
the Principal "libri poenitentatles" and Selections from Related Documents,
(New York: Columbia UP, 1938)
Does not give Latin texts.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, (New York & London: Blackfriars with
McGraw-Hill & Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1968)
On sodomy 2.2.154.12. Aquinas rates it worse than fornication, incest or rape, but better
than bestiality.
B: Commentaries and Articles on the Above and Other Source Material
a) General
Alford, John A., "The Grammatical Metaphor: A Survey of its Use in the Middle
Age", Speculum 57 (1982), 728-60
Baldwin, John W., The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France around
1200, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)
Birkhan, Helmut, "Qu'est-ce qui est preferable de l'heterosexualite ou de
l'homosexualite? Le temoignage d'un poeme latin" in Amour, mariage et
transgressions au moyen age: Actes du Colloque des 24-27 Mars 1983, ed. Danielle
Buschinger & Andre Crespin, Universite de Picardie, Centre d'Etudes Medievales,
(Goppingen: Kummerle Verlag, 1984)
Blum, O.J., St. Peter Damien: His Teaching on Spiritual Life, (Washington,
D.C.:1947)
Bond, Gerald A., "`Locus Amoris': The Poetry of Baudri of Bourgueil and the
Formation of the Ovidian Subculture", Traditio 47 (1986), pp. 143-193
Cadden, Joan, "It Takes All Kinds: Sexuality and Gender Differences in Hildegard
of Bingen's `Book of Compound Medicine", Traditio 40 (1984), pp. 149-174
Curtius, E.R., European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans. Willard R.
Trask, Bollingen Series 36, (New York: Pantheon, 1953)
pp. 115 ff. on homosexuality
Daichman, G.S., Wayward Nuns in Medieval Literature, (Syracuse NY: 1986)
Forsyth, Ilene, "The Ganymede Capital at Vezelay", Gesta: International
Center of Medieval Art 15:1-2 (1976), pp. 241-246
Green, Richard Hamilton, "Alan of Lille's De planctu Naturae", Speculum 31 (1956), 649-74
Harley M.P., "Narcissus, Hermaphroditus, and Attis: Ovidian Lovers at the Fontaine
d'Amours in Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la Rose", PMLA 101 (1986),
pp. 324-337
Herman, Gerald, "The "Sin against Nature" and its Echos in Medieval
French Literature", Annuale Medievale 17 (1976), pp. 70-87
Laeuchli, Samuel, Power and Sexuality: The Emergence of Canon Law at the Synod of
Elvira, (Philadelphia: 1972)
Latzke, Theresa, "Die Ganymed-Epstein des Hilerius", Mittelateinisches
Jahrbuch 18 (1983), pp. 131-159
Lepage, Yvan G., "Francois Villon et l'homosexualite", Le Moyen Age 92:1 (1986), pp. 69-89
Levy, R., "L'Allusion a la Sodomie dans Eneas", Philological
Quarterly 27 (1948)
Looks at allusions to sodomy in a twelfth century romance.
McEvoy, James, "Notes on the Prologue of St. Aelred of Rievaulx's `De Spirituali
Amacita', with a Translation", Traditio 37 (1981), pp. 149-174
Newall, V., "Folklore and Male Homosexuality", Folklore 97:2 (1986),
pp. 123-147
Payer, Pierre J., Sex and the Penitentials: Formation of a Sexual Code 550-1150,
(Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1984)
Sawyer, Erin. "Celibate Pleasures: Masculinity, Desire, and Asceticism in
Augustine." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:1 (1995): 1-29.
Wetherbee, Winthrop, "The Function of Poetry in `De Planctu Naturae" of Alain
de Lille", Traditio 25 (1969), 86-125
Unsympathetic to homosexuality. See pp. 102-105
Ziolkowski, Jan, Alan of Lille's Grammar of Sex: The Meaning of Gramma to a Twelfth
Century Intellectual, Speculum Anniversary Monographs 10, (Cambridge, Mass.: Medieval
Academy of America, 1985) [review, Speculum 63 (1988), p. 1015.]
Alan discussed homosexuality using a metaphor of bad grammar.
b) Chaucer
Field, P.J.C., "Chaucer's Merchant and the Sin Against Nature", Notes
and Queries March 1970, p. 84
Frese, Delores Warwick, "The Homoerotic Underside in Chaucer's Miller's Tale and
Reeve's Tale", Michigan Academician 10:2 (1977), pp. 143-150
Karlen, Arno, "The Homosexual Heresy", Chaucer Review 6:1 (1971), pp.
44-63
McAlpine, M.E., "Pardoner's Homosexuality and How it Matters", PMLA 95
(1980), pp. 8-22
Schweitzer, Edward, "Chaucer's Pardoner and the Hare", English Language
Notes 4:4 (1967), 247-50
c) Dante
Armour, Peter, "Dante's Brunetto: the Paternal Paterine", Italian
Studies 38 (1983), pp. 1-38
argues sin of Brunetto was heresy not sodomy
Kay, Richard, "The Sin of Brunetto Latini", Medieval Studies 31
(1969), pp. 262-286
Kay, Richard, "Dante's Unnatural Lawyer: Fancesco D"accusro in Inferno XV", Studia Gratiana 15 (1972), pp. 149-200
Suggests Inferno XV is not about sodomy, but other forms of "unnaturalness".
This would mean Dante put no one in hell for sodomy.
Mussetter, Sally, "`Ritornare a lo suo principio': Dante and the Sin of Brunetto
Latini", Philological Quarterly 63:4 (1984), pp. 431-448
Pezard, Andre, Dante sous la pluie de feu, (Paris: Librarie philosophique J.
Vien, 1950)
Radcliff-Umstead, Douglas, "Erotic Sin in the Divine Comedy", in Human
Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. D. Radcliff-Umstead, (Pittsburgh:
Univ. of Pittsburgh Publications on the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1978), pp. 41-96
Symonds, John Addington, "The Dantesque and Platonic Ideals of Love",
(excerpts) in Hidden Heritage: History and the Gay Imagination: An Anthology, ed.
Byrne R.S. Fone, (New York: Avocation Publishers, 1980)
Verschuer, U.F. von, "Die Homosexuelle in Dante's Gottlicher Komodie", Jahrbuch
fur Sexuelle Zwischenstufen 7 (1906), pp. 353-363
d) The Issue of "Friendship"
The Issue of how "friendship" is to be understood in ancient and medieval
sources is a major one. The relationships denoted by words such as "philia" and
"amicitia" have little do with the casual acquaintance which passes for
"friendship" in the modern world (where people can talk of having "hundreds
of friends"). The classical and medieval discussions of friendship, ofetn picking up
on Aristotle's notion of "one soul in two bodies" refer to, at the very least,
intense non-bloodkin based, relationships between equals. Such relationships were not, or
not meant to be, sexual. Some commentators thus exclude this tradition from the history of
homosexuality, preferring to see "homosexuality" as referring to predominantly
sexual relationships. Others argue that in understanding the modern
"construction" of "homosexual" identity, which is not merely a matter
of sexual activity or attraction, the history of "friendship" is vastly
significant.
Bray, Alan, "Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship", History
Workshop Journal 29 (1990)
Carpenter, Edward. ed., Iolaus - anthology of friendship (London, Swan Sonnenschein/Manchester, S. Clarke, Second edition, 1906. pp. vi. 234. Third
Edition 1927) [New York: Mitchell Kennerly, 1917, reprinted, New York: Pagan Press, 1982]
(US version available online)
Den Boer W., Eros en Amor. Man en vrouw in Griechenland en Rome, (The Hague:
1962),
Fiske, Adelle, "Alcuin and Mystical Friendship", Studii Medievali series 2, 3 (1961), pp. 551-575
Fiske, Adelle, Friends and Friendship in the Monastic Tradition, (Cuernavaca:
1970)
Fitzgerald, John T., Greco-Roman Perspectives on Friendship. (Atlanta: Scholars
Press, 1997)
Gold, Penny Shine, "The Language of cross-sex friendship in The Life of
Christine of Marykate", unpublished paper presented to the Midwest Medieval
Conference 12 Oct 1984
Gleckner, Robert F.Gray agonistes : Thomas Gray and masculine friendship¸(Baltimore,
Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
Hafkamp, Hans, Naar vriendshap zulk een mateloos verlangen - bloemlezing uit de
Nethelandse homo-erotische poezie, 1880-nu., (Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 1979)
Halverson, John, "Amour and Eros in the Middle Ages", The Psychoanalytic
Review 57 (1970), pp. 245-262
Heckel, Waldemar, "The `Boyhood Friends' of Alexander the Great", Emerita 53:2 (1985), pp. 285-289
Jaeger, Stephen, Enobling Love, forthcoming
Will be a major work - denies homoeroticism of "frienship" texts.
Karras, Ruth M. "Friendship and Love in the lives of two twelfth- century English
saints", Journal of Medieval History 14:4 (1988), 305-320
Aelred of Rievaulx and Christina of Markyate
Kupffer, Elisar von, ed.,, Lieblingsminne und Freundesliebe in der Welt-literature,
(Berlin, Adolf Brand, 1900)
Konstan, David, Friendship in the Classical World, (Cambridge: CUP, 1997)
An excellent bibliography.
Kroll, Wilhelm... Freundschaft und Knabenliebe. (Munich, 1927.)
Leclerq, Jean, "L'Amitié dans les lettres au moyen age", Revue du moyen
age latin 1 (1945), pp. 391-410
Leclerq, Jean, Monks and Love in 12th Century France: Psychohistorical Essays,
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979) {Reviewed: AHR (1982), p.377}
McGuire, B., "Love, Friendship and Sex in the 11th Century: The Experience of
Anselm", Studia Theologia 28 (1974), pp. 111-155
Looks at spiritual/erotic affections. Finds Anselm unobsessed with male sexuality.
McGuire, B., "Love, Friendship and Sex in the 11th Century: The Experience of
Anselm", Studia Theologia 28 (1974), pp. 11-32
Looks at spiritual/erotic affections. Finds Anselm unobsessed with male sexuality.
McGuire, Brian P., "Looking Back on Friendship: Medieval Experience and Modern
Context", Cistercian Studies 21:2 (1986), pp. 123-142
McGuire, Brian P., "Monastic Friendship and Toleration in Twelfth Century
Cistercian Life", in W. J. Shiels., ed., Monks, Hermits and the Ascetic Tradition,
Studies in Church History 22, (London: 1985), 147-160
McGuire, Brian Patrick, Friendship and Community: The Monastic Experience,
350-1250, (Kalamazoo MI: Cistercian Pubs., 1988).
McGuire, Brian P, Brother and Lover: Aelred of Rievaulx, (New York:
Crossroad, 1994)
Finally McGuire comes out and says that, from a modern perspective, it is appropriate
to say Aelred was "gay" (p.142). Interesting biography and context of Aelred's
life, plus recent historigraphy are all discussed. There is an interesting chapter on the
modern appeal and cult of Aelred. McGuire has come under intense attack from some
conservative Catholic voices fro this book.
Mullet, Margaret, "Byzantium: A Friendly Society?", Past and Present 118 (1988), pp. 3-23
p. 11 on homosexuality. This is an important article: in discussions of the adelphopoiia
rites highlighte by John Boswell, there have been many assertions that such rites
celebrate "friendship". As Mullet shows, that is a problematic concept in
Byzantium.
Stehling, Thomas, trans., Medieval Latin Poems of Male Love and Friendship, (New
York: Garland, 1984)
Gay medieval literature from the Roman Empire to 1300. Alcuin, Ausonius, Luxorius,
Abelard, Baudri or Bourgueil, Hilderbert of Lauardin.
Sutherland, Alistair. and Anderson, Patrick. eds., Eros - an anthology of male
friendship, (London: Blond, 1961)
Takes a chronological approach. No index or sources
White, Caroline, Christian Friendship in the Fourth Century, (Cambridge: CUP,
1992)
Scope goes beyond its title.
Woldring, Henk: Vriendschap door de eeuwen heen, (Ambo/Baarn, 1994).
Another good bibliography. You need to read Dutch, of course.
C: History of Sexuality & Homosexuality
Barber, Malcolm, The Trial of the Templars, (Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1978)
Beidler, Peter G. Masculinities in Chaucer : approaches to maleness in the
Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde Cambridge ; Rochester, NY, USA : D.S.
Brewer, 1998.
Bennett, Judith, and Froide, Single Women in the European Past, Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998?
Benson, J., "Clio and Venus: An Historical View of Courtly Love". in Francis
Xavier Newman, ed., The Meaning of Courtly Love, (Albany NY:, 1969), 19-42
Beriac, F., "La Persecution des Lepreux dans la France Meridionale", Le
Moyen Age 93:2 (1987), pp. 203-222
Discusses collective aggresiveness against the `other'.
Biddick, Kathleen. The shock of medievalism. Durham, N.C. : Duke University
Press, 1998.
Biller, P.A., "Birth Control, the Medieval West", Past and Present 94
(1982), pp. 3-26
Bitel, Lisa M. "`Conceived in Sins, Born in Delights': Stories of Procreation from
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Brucker, Gene, Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence,
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Author calls this microhistory. It is the account of a 1455 law case on the
clandestine marriage of a nobleman and poorer woman. It shows the sort of evidence
available in court records for sexual history.
Brundage, James, "Let Me Count the Ways: Canonists and Theologians Contemplate
Coital Positions", Journal of Medieval History 10:2 (1984), pp. 81-93
Brundage, James, "Politics of Sodomy", (forthcoming, promised in his Law,
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Camille, Michael, The Medieval Art of Love, pub?: H. Abrams, 1998
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Cadden, Joan, "Medieval Scientific and Medical Views of Sexuality: Questions of
Propriety", Medeavilia et Humanistica 14 (1986), pp. 157-171
Clark, Elizabeth A. "Antifamilial Tendencies in Ancient Christianity." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 5:3 (1995): 356-80.
Cleugh, James, Love Locked Out: An Examination of Sexuality during the Middle Ages,
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New York : Garland Pub., 1997.
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during the Middle Ages", Gerontologist Feb 1989; 29:1 p. 93-100
Abstract from electronic database :The proposals that thoughts on the ages of life
excluded the elderly from having normal sex lives and that the church of the Middle Ages
defined sexual behavior by the elderly as immoral are examined.
Espejo Muriel, Carlos. El deseo negado : aspectos de la problematica homosexual en
la vida monastica (siglos III-VI d.C.), (Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1991)
Derouet-Besson, Marie-Claude, "`Inter dous scopulas' Hypothese sur la place de la
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Epstein, L.M., Sex Laws and Customs in Judaism, (New York: 1967)
Flandrin, J.L., "Contraception, Mariage et Relations Amoureuses dans l'Occident
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Flandrin, J.L., "Marriage tardif et vie sexualle: Discussions et hypotheses de
recherche", Annales ESC 59 (1972), pp. 131178
Flandrin, J.L., "Repression and Change in the Sexual Life of Young People in
Medieval and Early Modern Times", Journal of Family History 2 (1977)
Did young people masturbate?
Fradenburg, Louise, and Carla Freccero, eds. The Pleasures of History: Reading
Premodern Sexualities, (New York: Routledge, 1996)
Gilmour-Bryon, Anne. "Sodomy and the Knights Templar." Journal of the
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Goodich, Michael, The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Late Medieval
Period, (Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-Clio, 1979)
Much criticised book that attempts an overview. It actually does quite a good job, and
has an extensive bibliography and a 30-page translation/extract from inquisition records
of Jacques Fournier in the 13th century. {Reviews - AHR 1980, p.375; Speculum (1980), pp. 121-122; Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (2 separate reviews)}
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Sodomie aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe Siecle, (Paris: 1920)
Jeay, Madeleine, "Sur quelque coutumes sexuelles du moyen age", in L'Erotisme
au Moyen Age: Etudes presentees au IIe Colloque de l'Institut d"Etudes Medievales,
3-4 Avril 1976, ed. Roy, Bruno, (Montreal: Ed. Aurore, 1977)
Karras, Ruth Mazo. "Holy Harlots: Prostitute Saints in Medieval Legend." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 1:1 (1990): 3-32.
Karras, Ruth Mazo, and David L. Boyd), "Ut cum muliere: A Male Transvestite
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Sexualities, eds. Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero, (New York: Routledge, 1996)
Karras, Ruth Mazo. Common women : prostitution and sexuality in Medieval England, New
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Keiser, Elizabeth B. Courtly desire and medieval homophobia : the legitimation of
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Kuster, Harvey J., "Gelijkgeslachtelijke liefde in de middeleeuwen", Spiegel
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Kuster, Harvey J., "L'Amour physique unisexuel au moyen age", Arcadie,
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Kuster, Harvey J., "Homoerotik in de middeleewse poezia", Maatstaf 24
(1976), pp. 40-48
Kuster, Harvey J., Over Homoseksualiteit in Middeleeuws West-Europa, (Utrecht:
Univ. of Utrecht Dissertation, 1977)
Kuster, Harvey J., "Homoseksualiteit in de middeleeuwen", Huisarts en
Praktijk, (Utrecht: 1980), pp. 13-16
Kuster, Harvey & Raymond J. Cormier, "Old Views and New Trends: Observations
on the Problem of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages", Studii Medievali 25:2
(1985)
Overview of recent work, based on Boswell and Kuster's dissertation.
Lea, H.C., History of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church 3rd ed.,
(London: 1907)
Lees, Clare A., ed, with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara. Medieval
masculinities : regarding men in the Middle Ages. Minneapolis : University of
Minnesota Press, c1994.
Legman, Gershon, The Guilt of the Templars, (New York: Basic Books, 1966)
Argues the Templars were a homosexual warrior order, that their seal indicates pederasty,
and that homosexual rape was part of the intuition. All open to question.
Lemay, Helen Rodnite, "Human Sexuality in Twelfth- through Fifteenth-Century
Scientific Writing", in Vern L. Bullough & James Brundage, Sexual Practices
and the Medieval Church, New Concepts in Human Sexuality Series, (Prometheus Books,
1982)
Discusses scientific writing on homosexuality on pp. 194-197. She can only find two short
discussions, by William of Saliceto and Michael Scot.
Lentzen-Bonn, R., "Altercatio Ganimedis en Helene", Mittelateinisches
Jahrbuch 8 (1972), pp 161-187
Lochrie, Karma, Peggy McCracken, and James A. Schultz. eds. Constructing medieval
sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Moore, R.I., The Formation of a Persecuting Society, (Oxford: Blackwell,
1987)
Briefly discusses homosexuality, but sets it in the wider context of Jews, lepers,
heretics and other persecuted groups.
Murray, Jacqueline, and Konrad Eisenbichler. Eds. Desire and discipline : sex and
sexuality in the premodern West. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Murray, Stephen & Kent Gerard, "Renaissance Sodomite Subcultures?", in Among
Men, Among Women: Sociological and Historical Recognition of Homosocial Arrangements,
(Amsterdam: 1983)
Nederman, Cary J., and Jacqui True. "The Third Sex: The Idea of the Hemaphrodite
in Twelfth-Century Europe." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4 (1996):
497-517.
Noordam, D. J., .Riskante relaties : vijf eeuwen homoseksualiteit in Nederland,
1233-1733, (Hilversum : Verloren, 1995)
Norton, Rictor, "Ganymede in Renaissance Literature", Gay Sunshine 19
(Fall, 1973), p. 16
Richards, Jeffrey, Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages,
(New York: Routledge, 1995)
Roby, D., "Early Medieval Attitudes toward Homosexuality", Gai Saber 1
(1977), pp. 67-71
Rosner, Fred, Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides, (New York: Ktav,
1984)
Roy, Bruno, ed., L'Erotisme au Moyen Age: Etudes presentees au IIe Colloque de
l'Institut d"Etudes Medievales, 3-4 Avril 1976, (Montreal: Ed. Aurore, 1977)
Ruggiero, Guido, The Boundaries of Eros: Sex, Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance
Venice, (New York: Oxford UP, 1985)
See pp 109-45 on sodomy.
Saslow, James M., Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society.
(New Haven: Yale UP, 1986)
Reviews
Source 6:3 (1987), pp. 34-35;
Art Bulletin 69:4 (1987), pp. 653-57;
AHR 93:1 (1988), p.185}
Hope, Charles, "Jupiter's Boy", New York Review of Books May 29, 1986;
33:9 p. 7-10
Saslow, James. M, "Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, Identity, Artistic
Expression" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 67-75
Cassio, A.C., "Post Classical Lesbiai", Classical Quarterly 33:1 (1983), 90-105
Schwartz, Jerome, "Aspects of Androgny in the Renaissance", in Human
Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. D. Radcliff-Umstead, (Pittsburgh,
Univ. of Pittsburgh Publications on the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1978), pp. 121-131
Small, R.C., "Is it True about the Templars", New York Review of Books 8, (Feb 23, 1967), pp. 14-15
Spreitzer, Brigitte, Die stumme Sunde : Homosexualitat im Mittelalter : mit einem
Textanhang, (Goppingen : Kummerle, 1988)
Stehling, Thomas, "To Love a Medieval Boy", Journal of Homosexuality 8 (1983), pp. 151-170
Stiller, Richard, "The Homosexual Crusader's The Templars ", Sexology 34 (Dec, 1967), pp. 305-307
Townsend, David and Andrew Taylor. Eds. The tongue of the fathers : gender and
ideology in the twelfth-century Latin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1998.
Weeks, Jeffrey, "In days of yore when knights were gay?", History Today 30 (July, 1980), p. 49
D: Christian Attitudes to Homosexuality
Bailey, Derrick S., Sexual Relations in Christian Thought, (New York:
Harper & Brothers, 1954)
Bailey, Derrick S., Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition,
(London: Longmans, Green, 1955;repr. Hamden, Ct.: Archon/Shoestring Press, 1975)
Absolutely standard work by Anglican priest. No bibliography but text gives best
overview of Church and secular legislation
Bailey, Derrick S., "Homosexuality and Christian Morals", in J. Tudor Rees
& H.V. Usill They Stand Apart: A Critical Study of the Problems of Homosexuality,
(London: Heinemann, 1955), pp. 36-63
Barber, Malcom, The Trial of the Templars, (Cambridge Cambridge University
Press, 1978)
Says sodomy Charges of 1308 are unproven. Use of "sodomy charges in late medieval
politics examined.
Bleibtrau-Ehrenbergm Gisela, Tabu Homosexualitaet: die Geschicte enies Vorurteils,
(Frankfort am Main: S. Fischer, 1978)
Stresses German history of anti-homosexuality from earliest times.
Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, Gisela, Der Weibmann : kultischer Geschlechtswechsel im
Schamanismus : eine Studie zur Transvestition und Transsexualitat bei Naturvolkern,
(Frankfurt am Main : Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1984)
Bloch, Iwan, "Die Homosexualitaet in Koeln am Ender des 15, Jahrhunderts", JFZ 1 (1908), 528-35
Sodomite sub-culture n 15th century Cologne.
Bond, Gerald, "`locus Amoris': The Poetry of Baudri of Bougueil and the Formation
of the Ovidian Subculture", Traditio 42 (1986)m 143-93
Sees the subculture as not-homosexual and criticizes Boswell
Boswell, John, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, (Chicago:
Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980)
STILL single most important work by a serious scholar. Proposes that homosexuals were
accepted before the 13th century, and then intolerance sets in. Criticised by gay radicals
for letting the Church off the hook. Boswell rejects idea that homosexual subcultures are
a recent development. Nevertheless, at this stage virtually all of Boswell's specific
conclusions have been called into question. Students of the period must look at later
scholarly publications.
Boswell, John, "The Origins of Christian Intolerance of Homosexuality", (in
Spanish), Cuadernos del Norte 8:44 (1987), pp. 18-23
Boswell, John, Rediscovering Gay History : Archetypes of Gay Love in Christian
History, (London : Gay Christian Movement, 1982)
Early presentation of the themes later developed in Same Sex Unions.
Boswell, John, "Revolutions, Universals, Categories", Salmagundi 58-59
(Fall1982-Winter 1983), 89-113
reprinted, and more easily accessible in, Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and Ceorge
Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989, 17-36)
Boswell's extended discussion of the method and theory behind his researches and
interpretations.
Boswell, John, interview by Lawrence Mass, "Sexual Categories, Sexual Universals:
An INterview with John Boswell", Christopher Street 151 (1990), 23-40
Boswell discusses with Mass the implications and controversies over his work.
Boswell, John., "Battle-worn.", The New Republic v. 208 (May 10 '93)
p. 15+
ABSTRACT: In ancient times, homosexuality had a hallowed relationship to democracy and
military valor, even though modern military officials tend to find this improbable or even
unbelievable. Many persons who might now be considered "gay" played prominent
roles in the military, and some observers of the times argued that gay men would make
ideal soldiers because they would wish to behave admirably while those they loved were
present. In 378 B. C., the Theban leader Gorgidas created a company of 300 men, known as
the "sacred band" of Thebes, composed of pairs of lovers; according to Plutarch.
The troop played a crucial role in many military engagements and was never beaten until
the battle of Chaeronea in 338
Boswell, John, Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe, (New York: Villard,
1994)
A groundbreaking study of the "Adelphopoiia" liturgy, which Boswell argues,
was for centuries used as a public liturgy to celebrate erotic relationships between
people of the same sex.
Brooten, Bernardette J, Love Between Women: Early Christian Respones to Female
Homoeroticism, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
The most important book on the classical and early Christian history of Lesbianism.
She attacks the idea that there was no general idea of "homosexuality" in these
periods.
Brown, Peter R. L., Augustine of Hippo : a biography, (London: Faber; Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1967)
Brown, Peter, The Body and Society: Men Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early
Christianity, (New York: Columbia UP, 1988)
Important book by the foremost scholar of late antiquity on the emergence of Christian
sexual ethics and thought about the body. Vital.
Brown Peter., Le renoncement à la chair. Virginité, célibat et continence dans le
christianisme primitif, Paris, 1995) French trans of above item. The title indicates
content more than the English version.
Brundage, James, "Let Me Count the Ways: Canonists and Theologians Contemplate
Coital Positions", Journal of Medieval History 10:2 (1984), pp. 81-93
Brundage, James, Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe, (Chicago
& London: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Now the standard work on the subject.
Bullough, Vern L. & James Brundage, Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church,
(New Concepts in Human Sexuality Series) (Prometheus Books, 1982)
Brundage is a major canon lawyer. Uses quantative methods that are hair-raising at
times
Bullough, Vern L., "Byzantium and Eastern Orthodox Christianity", in Sexual
Variance in Society and History, (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1976. pp, 317-346
Bullough, Vern, "Transvestites in the Middle Ages", American Journal of
Sociology, 79 (1974), 1381-94
Stresses female saints. reprinted in his Sexual Practices.
Castelli, Elizabeth, "`I Will Make Mary Male': Pieties of the Body and Gender:
Transformation of Christian Women in Late Antiquity", in Julia Epstein and Kristina
Straub, eds. , Body Guards: The Cultural politics of Gender Ambiguity, (New York:
Routledge, 1991), 29-39
Cleugh, James, Love Locked Out: A Survey of Love, License, and Restriction in the
Middle Ages, (London: Anthony Blond, 1963)
Coleman, Peter, Christian Attitudes to Homosexuality, (London: SPCK, 1980)
Compton, Thomas, "Sodomy and Civil Doom: The History of an Unchristian
Tradition", Vector (Nov, 1975), pp. 23-27, 57-58
Looks at Christian hostility in OT, NT, the Fathers, Justinian, Charlemagne and Church
Councils
Daniel, Marc, 'Was St. Thomas a Becket a Homosexual?", Homophile Studies: ONE
Institute Quarterly, 19 (1963), 68-71
Discusses play by Jean Anouilh which portaryed Becket and Henry II as gay. Concludes that
there is not sufficient evidence.
Dynes, Wayne, "Christianity and the Politics of Sex", in Warren Johansson et
al., Homosexuality, Intolerance and Christianity, A Critical Examination, (New
York: Scholarship Committee, Gay Academic Union, 1981)
Less obessively anti-Christian than his colleagues in this collection of attacks on
Boswell.. Clearly defines, apparently for all gay people, Christianity as "our
enemy".
Eekhoud, Georges, "Saint Sebastien dans la peinture", Akdemos 1 (Feb
15 1909), 171-75
Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, "People of the Body: The Problem of the Body for the
People of the Book", Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:1 (1991), 1-24
Evans, Arthur, Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture: A Radical View of Western
Civilization and Some of the People it Tried to Destroy, (Boston: Fag Rag Books, 1978)
Blames attacks on gays on Christianity, which needs to be replaced with socialism.
Forsyth, Ilene, "The Ganymede Capital at Vezelay", Gesta: International
Center of Medieval Art 15:1-2 (1976), pp. 241-246
Friedlander, Benedict, "Der Untergang des Eros im Mittlealter und seine Ursachen
", Der Eigene (1903), 441-455, trans. as "The Decline of Eros in the
Middle Ages and its Causes" in Oosterhuis, Harry, ed. (translations by Hubert
Kennedy), Homosexuality and male bonding in pre-Nazi Germany : the youth movement, the
gay movement, and male bonding before Hitler's rise : original transcripts from Der
Eigene, the first gay journal in the world, (New York : Harrington Park Press, c1991)[
"Simultaneously issued by the Haworth Press, Inc., under the same title, as special
issues of Journal of homosexuality 22:1/2, 1991], 99-108
Gauthier, Albert, "La sodomie dans le droit canonique medieval" in L'Erotisme
au Moyen Age: Etudes presentees au IIe Colloque de l'Institut d'Etudes Medievales, 3-4
Avril 1976, ed. Roy, Bruno (Montreal: Ed. Aurore, 1977), pp. 109-122
Gilmour-Bryson, Anne, The Trial of the Templars in the Papal States and the Abruzzi,
(Vatican: Biblioteco Apostolica Vaticana, 1982)
Goodich, Michael, "Sodomy in Ecclesiastical Law and Theory", Journal of
Homosexuality 1:3 (1976), pp. 427-434 Looks at penitentials, patristics, canons,
episcopal instructions to the clergy.
Greenberg, David E. & M.H. Bystrin, "Christian Intolerance of
Homosexuality", American Journal of Sociology 88 (1982), pp. 515-548
Hays, R.B., "Relations Natural and Unnatural: A Response to John Boswell's
Exegesis of Romans I", Journal of Religious Ethics 14 (1986), pp. 184-215
A attempt to defend natural law condemnation of homosexuality.
Herter, Hans, "Effeminatus" in Reallexikon fuer Antike und Christentum: Sachworterbuch zur Auxeinandersetzung des Christentums mit der antiken welt, ed.
Theodor Klauser., (Stuttgart : Hiersemann, 1950- ) Issued in parts.
Looks at history of Christian condemnation of homosexuality.
Horn, Walter, and Ernest Born, The Plan of St. Gall, (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1979), 3 vols.
Discusses Benedictin efforts to prevent sexual contacts with young monks.
Ide, Arthur Frederick, Sex, Women and Religion, (Dallas: Monument Press. 1984)
Discusses lesbianism in Byzantine convents (p 121).
Ide, Arthur Frederick, Lesbianism in the Eearly Religious Order of the Christian
Church, (Dallas: Monument Press. 19??)
This and the following were reported as "forthcoming" in the 1985 bibliography
by Nancy Manahan in Lesbian Nuns: Breaking the Silence. Nothing by Ide is cited by
other scholars, and I have not read anything that impresses.
Ide, Arthur Frederick, Lesbianism in the Medieval Nunnery, (Dallas: Monument
Press. 19??)
Johansson, Warren, "Ex parte Themis: The Historic Guilt of the Christian
Church", in Homosexuality, Intolerance and Christianity, A Critical Examination,
(New York: Scholarship Committe, Gay Academic Union, 1981)
Johansson, Warren, "London's Medieval Sodomites", Cabiron 10 (1984),
6-7, 34
Based on a text of Richard of Devizes
Johnson, Penelope D. , Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval
France, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
pp 112-130, a discussion of the vow of chastity, including a rare discussion of lesbianism
among medieval nuns. There are rare indications of such activity, but very
"rare" indeed.
Jordan Mark, The Invention of Sodomy, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1997)
A critique of John Boswell's work as "social history", Jordan traces the
development of the the idea of "sodomy" in theological,canonical, and
philosophical texts.
Lauritsen, John, "Culpa Ecclesiae: Boswell's Dilemma",in Homosexuality,
Intolerance and Christianity: A Critical Examination, (New York: Scholarship Committe,
Gay Academic Union, 1981)
Attack on Boswell's theory that the Church did not create hatred of gays, by a leading
proponent of the theory that the Church was responsible.
Laeuchli, Samuel, Power and Sexuality: The Emergence of Canon Law at the Synod of
Elvira, (Philadelphia:
Lea, H.C., A History of the Middle Ages, 3 vols., (New York: Harper, 1887)
See Vol 1: 32-34, 85, 101; vol 2, 150, 335, 408; vol 3, 639
Lea, H.C., "Unnatural Crime", in A History of the Inquisition in Spain 4 vols., (New York: Macmillan, 1922)
Vol 4, pp. 361-377 (Chapter 16) 1497-1123, finds 20 persons burned at the stake and 48
"relaxed'.
Legman, Gershon, The Guilt of the Templars, (New York: Basic, 1966)
Argues that the Templars were a homosexual warrior order and were resistant to medieval
Christianity. Poppycock.
Le Targat, Francois, Saint-Sebastien dans l'histoire de l'art depuis le XVe siecle,
(Paris: Paul Vermont, 1977)
Le Targat, Francois, Saint-Sebastien: Adonis et martyr, (Paris: Editions
Persona, 1983)
Levin, Eve, Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slaves, 900-1700,
(Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989)
Discusses homosexuality - emphasises that anal sex was the major problem. Also
discusses "same-sex unions" 149-150 , but seems serioudly misinformed in seeing
a Slavic blood brotherhood origin and thinking that manuscriots go back to "at least
the 14th century". Boswell has shown much earlier origins. Shows the general
confusion over this issue.
Little, Lester K., "Pride Goes Before Avarice: Social Change and Vices in Latin
Christendom", American Historical Review 76 (1971), pp. 16-49
Discussion of the changes in the relative seriousness of sins and why this happens.
McLauglin, E.C., "Equality of Souls, Inequality of Sexes: Women in Medieval
Theology", in Rosemary R. Ruether, ed., Religion and Sexism: Images of Women in
Jewish and Christian Tradition, (New York: 1974), 213-60
McNeill, John Thomas, and Helena Gamer, eds., Medieval Handbooks of Penance,
(New York: Colimbia UP, 1938)
Extensive selection in English. See Payer for analysis.
Martin, D., "The Perennial Canaanites: the Sin of Homosexuality", Etc 41 (1984), pp. 340-361
Matter, E. Ann, "My Sister, My Spouse: Women Identified Women in Medieval
Christianity", Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 2 (Fall 1986), 81-93
One of the very few articles on medieval female same-sex relationships.
Miles, Margaret, Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the
Christian West, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989; pb New York: Vintage, 1991), 53-77
Moos, Peter von, Hildebert von Lovardin 1056-1133: Humanitas an der Schwelle des
hofischen Zetalters, (Stuttgart: 1965)
pp. 236-239 on the cult of Ganymede
Naecke, Paul, "On Homosexuality in Albania", International Journal of
Greek Love 1:1 (1965), 39-47, translated by Warren Johansson from Jahrbuch fuer
sexuelle Zwischenstufen 9 (1908), 325-327
Important now for discussion of the meaning of brotherhood ceremonies.
Noonan, John T., Contraception: A History of its Treatment by Catholic
Theologians and Canonists, (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1966)
Looks at all forms of "non-procreative" sexuality and Church attitudes to
it.
Meeks, Wayne A., The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries,
(New Haven CT: Yale UP, 1993)
Meeks does not really address homosexuality, but he does discuss the origins of the
overall sexual ethic with some verve and interest.
Olsen, Glenn, W., "The Gay Middle Ages: a response to Professor Boswell", Communio:
International Catholic Review (summer 1981), pp. 119-138
Highly critical discussion of Boswell's discussion of natural law by a conservative
Catholic.
Olsen, Glenn W., "St. Anselm and Homosexuality", Anselm Studies (1988)
Pagels, Elaine, Adam, Eve and the Serpent, (New York: Random House, 1988; pb
New York: Vintage, 1989)
A discussion of the various reinterpretations of the Adam and Eve myth and its
repercussions on Western views of sex. Pagels thinks Augustine is largely responsible for
the idea that original sin is carried in semen. The book has been criticised by many.
Payer, Pierre J., Sex and the Penitentials: Formation of a Sexual Code 550-1150,
(Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1984)
Much more negative than Boswell, but then part of Boswell's argument is the
concentration on laws and official documents has substantially misrepresented the history
of homosexuality in the middle ages.
Partner, Peter, The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and Their Myth,(London:
Oxford UP, 1982)
Suggests the Templats were homosexual.
Ranke-Heinemann, Ute, Eunuchs for the Kingdom of God: Women, Sexuality, and the
Catholic Church, trans Peter Heinegg, (New York: Doubleday, 1990, German ed. 1988)
Although Ranke-Heinemann is somewhat selective in her views, she marshals much evidence
about the history of Roman Catholic attitudes towards sex, boty those that have changed
and those that have not. She is much more pessimistic than Boswell. Chapter 27 address
homosexuality directly, but it is her other chapters that are most interesting.
Reviews
Berry, Jason, "One Angry Catholic", New York Times Book Review Dec 30, 1990;
p. 7, 8:1
Cahill, Susan, "Books: Critics' Choices for Christmas ", Commonweal Dec 7, 1990;
117:21 p. 730-731
Chadwick, Henry, "Celibacy Slated", Times Literary Supplement Jun 22, 1990;
:4551 p. 663
Chittister, Joan, "If Bashing Is Backed by the Facts, Beware", National Catholic
Reporter Feb 8, 1991; 27:15 p. 19-20
Genovesi, Vincent J, Theological Studies Dec 1991; 52:4 p. 770-773
Gleason, Elisabeth G, Catholic Historical Review Oct 1991; 77:4 p. 659-660
Hardy, Linda, "Cardinal Bashes Book, Makes It a Best-Seller -- Eunuchs for the
Kingdom of Heaven: Women, Sexuality, and the Catholic Church by Uta Ranke-Heinemann and
translated by Peter Heinegg Photograph ", National Catholic Reporter Feb 8, 1991;
27:15 p. 19-20
Maitland, Sara, "Blind Mouths", New Statesman & Society Apr 20, 1990; 3:97
p. 37
Porter, Jean, America Mar 30, 1991; 164:12 p. 350
Read, Piers Paul, "When Sex Is Not a Sin", Spectator May 12, 1990; 39-40
Stuttaford, Genevieve, "Nonfiction: Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven ",
Publishers Weekly Oct 19, 1990; 237:42 p. 45
Watts, Richard S, "Religion: Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven", Library Journal
Dec 1990; 115:21 p. 130
Weeks, Jeffrey, History Today Nov 1992; 42 p. 57
Wright, A D, History Feb 1993; 78:252 p. 65-66
Roby, Douglass, "Early Medieval Attitudes to Homosexuality", Gai Saber 1 (1977), 67-79
Russell, Kenneth C., "Aelred, the Gay Abbot of Rievaulx", Studia Mystica 5:4 (Winter 1982), 51-64
Salisbury, Joyce E., "The Latin Doctors of the Church on Sexuality", Journal
of Medical History 12:4 (1986), pp. 279-290
Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome - After Augustine a change in view and celibacy seen as
essential.
Saslow, James M, "The Tenderest Lover: Saint Sebastian in Renaissance Painting: A
proposed Iconology for North Italian Art, 1450-1550", Gai Saber 1:1 (Spring
1977), 58-66, and response by Wayne Dynes, Gai Saber 1:2 (Summer 1977), 150-51
Sheehan, M.M., "Christianity and Homosexuality", Journal of Ecclesiastical
History 33 (1982), pp. 438-446
Reviews Boswell, Social Tolerance, Goodich, Unmentionable Vice, and Coleman, Christian Attitudes. Critical of Boswell.
Shiels, W.J., ed., Persecution and Tolerance. Studies in Church History 21,
(1984)
Squire. A., Aelred of Rievaulx: A Study, Cistercian Studies Series 50,
(Kalamazoo, MI: 1981)
Tannahill. Reay, Sex in History, (Briarcliff Manor NY: Stein and Day, 1980; pb
New York: Scarborough Books, 1982)
Extended journalistic account of sex in history. Nevertheless useful and the easiest place
to find information such as how castration was performed. Discusses the effects of
Christianity, and the Sodom story, p. 153ff, p.285ff and p.375ff.
Tentler, Thomas T., Sex and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation, (New York:
1979)
Watkins, Renee Neu, "Mythology as Code: Lapo da Castiglionchio's View of
Homosexuality and Materialism at the Curia", Journal of the History of Ideas Jan 1992; 53:1 p. 138-144
Abstract from electronic database :In 1438, Lapo da Castiglionchio wrote a lengthy Latin
dialogue defending the service of the Pope and the tone of life at the Curia. He also made
three references to homosexuality. His views toward homosexuals are discussed.
Wetherbee, Winthrop, "The Function of Poetry in `De Planctu Naturae" of Alain
de Liile", Traditio 25 (1969), pp. 86-125 Unsympathetic to homosexuality. See
pp. 102-105
Venarde, Bruce L. Women's monasticism and medieval society : nunneries in France and
England, 890-1215 Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Wright, David, "Homosexuality" in Encyclopedia of Early Christianity.
ed. Everett Ferguson et al., (New York: Garland Pub., 1990)
Contains this gem "The conclusion must be that for all the interest and stimulus
Boswell's book provides in the end of the day NOT ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE that the teaching
mind of the early Church countenanced homosexual activity." See entry under Biblical
studies on an earlier Wright article.
E: Local Studies
a) Italy (see also bibliography on Dante)
Brucker, Gene, ed., The Society of Renaissance Florence: A Documentary Study,
(New York: Harper and Row, 1971)
Florentine anti-sodomy magistracy pp. 201-206. Now see Michael Rocke's work on this
subject.
Gilmour-Bryson, Anne, The Trial of the Templars in the Papal States and the Abruzzi,
(Vatican: Biblioteco Apostolica Vaticana, 1982)
Gundesheimer, Werner, "Crime and Punishment in Ferrara", in L. Martines, Violence
and Civil Disorder in Italian Cities 1200-1500, (Berkeley: Univ. Of California Press,
1972)
pp. 144 ff. - 8 executions of sodomites 1440-1500. 4% of all capital punishments.
Hergemoeller, Bernd-Ulrich. "Sodomiter: Schuldzuschreibungen und Repressionsformen
im sp"aten Mittelalter." In Hergemowller, ed., Randgruppen der
Spaetmittelalterlichen Gesellschaft, (Warendorf: Fahlbusch Verlag, 1990), 316-56.
Has a lot of Italian material, including a transcription of a Venice case from 1368.
Herlihy, David, "Veillir a Florence au Quattrocento", Annales E.S.C 24
(1969), pp. 1338-1352
Herlihy, David, "The Tuscan Town in the Quattrocento", Medievalia et
Humanistica 1 (1970), pp. 81-100
Labalme, Patricia H., "Sodomy and Venetian Justice in the Renaissance", Revue
d'histoire du droit 52:3 (1985), pp. 217-254
Munster, Ladislao, "Un processo per sodomia a Venezia e una perizia medica
relitiva ad esso", in Frascastro: Studi e Memories per il IV Centenario della
Marte, (Verona: Ghidini Fiorini, 1954), pp. 82-84
Pavan, Elizabeth, "Police des moeurs, societe et politique a Venise a la fin du
moyen age", Revue Historique 264:2 (1986), pp. 241-288
Posner, Donald, "Caravaggios Homo-erotic Early Works", Art Quarterly 34 (1971), 301-24
Rocke, Michael, Male homosexuality and its regulation in late medieval Florence,
(Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 1989)
Use police records to examine hundreds of arrests of men for sodomy.
Rocke, Michael, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in
Renaissance Florence, (New York : Oxford University Press, 1996)
Derived from Rocke's dissertation. He argues that homosexual activity was a normal part of
male life activities in Florence, and not deviant.
Ruggierio, Guido, "Sexual Criminality in the Early Renaissance: Venice
1338-1358", Journal of Social History 8:4 (1975), pp. 18-37
Documents 16 young nobles burnt for sodomy in 14061407.
Ruggiero, Guido, The Boundaries of Eros: Sex, Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance
Venice, (New York: Oxford UP, 1985)
Saslow, James M., Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society,
(New Haven: Yale UP, 1986)
Saslow, James. M, "Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, Identity, Artistic
Expression" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 67-75
Cassio, A.C., "Post Classical Lesbiai", Classical Quarterly 33:1 (1983), 90-105
Shevill, F., Medieval and Renaissance Florence 2nd ed., (New York, 1961)
Shreve, Jack, "Homosexuality in Renaissance Italy", Gay Literature 2 (Spring, 1972), pp. 10-14
Trexler, R.C., "La Prostitution Florentine au XVe Siecle: Patronage et
Clienteles", Annales ESC 36:6 (1981), pp. 983-1015
Discusses Florentine institution of brothels in 1403 as an antisodomy move.
Wittkower, Rudol and Margot Wittkower, Born Under Saturn, (London: Weidenfield
and Nicolson, 1962)
On homosexual artists.
b) France
Courouve, Claude, "Sodomy Trials in France", Gay Books Bulletin 1
(1978), pp. 22-23, 26
Documents 30 executions in France 1317-1783. Author may also have a book called Archives
de l'homosexualite.
Coward, D.A., "Attitudes to Homosexuality in Eighteenth Century France", Journal
of European Studies 10, pp. 236 ff.
Duby, Georges, "Youth in Aristocratic Society: Northwestern France in the Twelfth
Century", in The Chivalrous Society, (1977), pp. 112-122
Suggests some aristocratic homosexuality, drawing on opinions of Ordericus Vitelis.
Duby, Georges, William Marshall: The Flower of Chivalry, trans. R. Howard, (New
York: Pantheon Books, 1985)
Herman, Gerald, "The `Sin against Nature' and its Echos in Medieval French
Literature", Annuale Medievale 17 (1976), pp. 70-87
Le Roy Ladourie, Emmanuel, Montaillou: Village Occitan de 1294-1324, (Paris:
Gallimard, 1975), trans. by B. Bray as Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, (New
York: 1978)
Discusses inquisition records including those related to homosexuality.
Leclerq, Jean, Monks and Love in 12th Century France: Psychohistorical Essays,
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979) {Reviewed: AHR (1982), p.377}
Robin, Gilbert, L'Enigme sexuelle d'Henri III, (Paris: Westamel, 1964)
c) Jewry
Allony, Nehemiah, "The `Zevi', Hebrew Poetry in Spain", Seferad 23
(1963), 311-21
Biale, David, Eros and the Jewus: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America,
(New York: Basic Books, 1992)
General work, but has a good bibliography.
Boyarin, Daniel, Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Judaism, (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1993)
Boyarin, Daniel.. "Literary Fat Rabbis: On the Historical Origins of the Grotesque
Body." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:4 (1991): 551-84.
Boyarin, Daniel. Unheroic conduct : the rise of heterosexuality and the invention of
the Jewish man Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
Citron, Aaron, "Aspects of Love in the Hebrew Poetry of Moslem Spain", Literature
East and West 11 (1967), 119-25
Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. "People of the Body: The Problem of the Body for the
People of the Book." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:1 (1991): 1-24.
Ibn Sana al-Mulk. Dar al-tiraz.
A collection of Hebrew homoerotic poetry from medieval Spain [Seferad in Hebrew,
al-Andalus in Arabic]. Translations of some of the poems can be found in Linda Fish
Compton, Andalusian Lyric poetry and Old Spanish Love Songs, (New York: 1976)
Olyan, Saul M. "`And with a Male You Shall Not Lie the Lying Down of a Woman': On
the Meaning and Significance of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13." Journal of the History
of Sexuality 5:2 (1994): 179-206.
Satlow, Michael L. "`They Abused Him Like a Woman': Homoeroticism, Gender
Blurring, and the Rabbis in Late Antiquity." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:1 (1994): 1-25.
Roth, Norman, "Satire and Debate in Two Famous Medieval Poems from al-Andulus:
Love of Boys vs. Girls, the Pen and Other Themes", The Maghreb Review 4
(1979), 105-13
Roth, Norman, "Deal Gently with the Young Man: Love of Boys in Medieval Hebrew
Poetry of Spain", Speculum 57 (1982), 21-50
Roth, Norman., "'My Beloved is Like a Gazelle' - imagery of the beloved boy in
Hebrew Religious Poetry", Hebrew Annual Review 8 (1984). 143-65
Roth, Norman, "'The Care and Feeding of Gazelles' - medieval Hebrew and Arabic
Love Poetry", in M. Lazar and N. Lacy, eds., Poetics of Love in the Middle Ages,
(Fairfax, VA: 1989)
Roth, Norman. "Fawn of My Delights - boy-love in Hebrew and Arabic Verse" in Sex
in the Middle Ages, (New York, 1991), 157-72.
Roth, Norman, "Boy-love in Medieval Arabic Verse", PAIDIKA - Journal of
Paedophilia 3:3 (Winter 1994), 12-17
Press, Jacob, "`What in the World Is the Sin If I Threill to Your Beauty"?:
The Homosexual Love Poems of the Medieval Rabbis ", Mosaic (1999), 12-26
Schirmann, Jefim (Hayyim), "The Ephebe in Medieval Hebrew Poetry", Seferad 15 (1955), pp. 55-68
d) Byzantium
Bailey, Derrick S., Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition, (London:
Longmans, Green, 1955;repr. Hamden, Ct.: Archon/Shoestring Press, 1975)
Absolutely standard work by Anglican priest. No bibliography but text gives best
overview of Church and secular legislation
Beck, Hans-Georg, Byzantinisches Erotikon: Orthodoxie-Literatur- Gesellschaft,
(Munich: 1983)
Boswell, John, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, (Chicago:
Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980) , esp. 137-66
Boswell, John, Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe, (New York: Villard,
1994)
Brooten, Bernardette J, Love Between Women: Early Christian Respones to Female
Homoeroticism, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
The most important book on the classical and early Christian history of Lesbianism.
She attacks the idea that there was no general idea of "homosexuality" in these
periods.
Bullough, Vern L., Sexual Variance in Society and History, (Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago Press, 1976)
see Chapter 12: Byzantium and Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
Dalla, Danilo. "Ubi Venus mutatur": omosessualità e diritto nel mondo
romano. (Milan. 1987)
Dauphin Claudine, Brothels,
Baths and Babes Prostitution in the Byzantine Holy Land, Classics Ireland 3,
1996 [At UCD]
Galatariotou, Catia, "Holy Women and Witches: Aspects of Byzantine Conceptions of
Gender", Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 9 (1984/85), 55-94
Galatariotou, Catia, "Byzantine Ktetorika Typika: A Comparative Study", Revue
des études byzantins 45 (1987), 77- 138
Despite its odd title, this contains one of the best discussions of Byzantine
homosexuality - based on an examination of monastic foundation documents - the
"typika" of the title., esp. pp. 121-124
Galatariotou, Catia, "Eros and Thanatos ", Byzantine and Modern Greek
Studies 13 (1989), 95-137
esp. pp. 105, 117-124
Harrison, Nonna Verna, The
Feminine Man in Late Antique Ascetic Piety, [At Columbia U]
James, Liz. Women, men, and eunuchs : gender in Byzantium. London; New York :
Routledge, 1997.
Jenkins, Romilly J.H., "Constantine VII's Portrait of Michael III", in Bulletin
de las Classes Des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques, Académie Royale de
Belgique, 5e série, XXXIV, (1948), 71-77
Koukales, P, The Private Life of the Byzantines
Byzantinon bios kai politismos 8 vols., (Athens: Institut Francais, 1947-57)(in modern
Greek) Vol IV, 505-39 on homosexuality: NB sometimes referred to as Vie et Civilisation
byzantines - check for French translation.
Laiou, Angeliki, Marriage, Amour et parenté à Byzance aux XIe-XIIIe siècles,
(Paris: De Boccard, 1992)
pp. 74 ff. Contains one of the most important modern analyses of Byzantine
homosexuality.
Levin, Eve, Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slaves, 900-1700,
(Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989)
Discusses homosexuality - emphasizes that anal sex was the major problem. Also
discusses "same-sex unions" 149-150 , but seems seriously misinformed in seeing
a Slavic blood brotherhood origin and thinking that manuscriots go back to "at least
the 14th century". Boswell has shown much earlier origins. Shows the general
confusion over this issue.
Mullet, Margaret, "Byzantium: A Friendly Society?", Past and Present 118 (1988), pp. 3-23
p. 11 on homosexuality.
Pitsakes, Konstantinos, "He thes ton homophylophilon ste Byzantine Koinia"
in Chrysa A. Maltezou, ed., Praktika Hemeridas: Hoi Peridoriako sto Byzantio,
(Athens: 1993), 171-269
A major article in modern Greek.
Ringrose, Kathryn, "Living in the Shadows: Eunuchs and Gender in Byzantium",
in Gilbert Herdt, ed., Third Sex, Third Gender, (New York: Zone, 1994), 85-110
Troianos, Spyros, "Kirchliche und weltliches Rechtsquellen zur Homosexualität
in Byzanz", Jahrbuch des Öst. Byzantinistik 39 (1989), 29-48
"Ecclesiastical and secular legal sources on Homosexuality in Byzantium". A
vital summary.
Zymaris, Nicholas, "The Rite of `Spiritual Brotherhood', Homosexuality, and the
Orthodox Church", Axios (May 1984), 6-8
Zymaris, who is a long term student of Albania, speaks Albanian and has visited as
recently as 1993 churches in Albania which perform liturgical same-sex unions.
e) Medieval Islam
Bosquet, G.H. Le morale de l'Islam et son éthique sexuelle, (Paris and
Algiers: 1953)
Bosquet, G.H. Le éthique sexuelle de l'Islam, (Paris: 1966)
Burton, Richard Francis, "Terminal Essay" to One Thousand and One Nights,
Christman, Henry. M. , ed., Gay Tales and Verses from the Arabian Nights, (?:
Edward-William Publishing Company/Banned Books, 1989)
Daniel, Mark, , "Arab Civilization and Male Love", trans Winston Leyland, in Reclaiming
Sodom, ed. Jonathan Goldberg,. (London, New York: Routledge, 1994), 59-65
Ibn Dawud (Muhammed Ibn Dawud Al-Isfahani), Kitab al-zahara (The Book of the
Flower) Nykl, Richard (Ed.), (Chicago: Oriental Institute, Chicago, 1932)
Ninth-century Arabicanthology which includes love poetry to boys by several authors.
Lacey, E. A. (translator, The Delight of Hearts: Or, What You Will Not Find in Any
Book, (?: Gay Sunshine Press, 1988)
Ahmad Al-Tifashi, compile, An anthology of Arabic gay literature - is a translation of a
translation of a translation.
Patai, Rafael, The Arab Mind, Rev. ed. (New York : Scribner, c1983)
Reid, Anthony. ed. The Eternal Flame - a world anthology of homosexual verse, 2000
B.C.- 2000 A.D. Volume 1 - Greece, Italy, Islam, France, (New York, Dyanthus Press,
1992)
Roth, Norman, "Boy-love in Medieval Arabic Verse", PAIDIKA - Journal of
Paedophilia 3:3 (Winter 1994), 12-17
Schmitt, Arno and Jehoeda Sofer, eds., Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in
Moslem Societies, (New York : Haworth Press, 1991)
Begin here.
f) Elsewhere (See also bibliography on Chaucer)
Bitel, Lisa M. "`Conceived in Sins, Born in Delights': Stories of Procreation from
Early Ireland." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:2 (1992): 181- 202.
Blackmore Josiah and Gregory S. Hutcheson, eds., Queer Iberia: Crossing Cultures,
Crossing Sexualities. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Forthcoming [1998?])
CONTENTS: Josiah Blackmore, "The Poets of Sodom"; Benjamin Liu, "
'Affined to love the Moor' : Sexual Misalliance and Cultural Mixing in the Cantigas
d'escarnho e de mal dizer"; Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas, "Male Bonding in
Texts of Alfonso X, Ramon Llull, and Juan Manuel: Cultural Constructions of Homosocial
Friendship in Medieval Iberia"; Catherine Brown, "Queer Representation in the Arcipreste
de Talavera, Or, the maldezir de mugeres is a Drag"; Daniel Eisenberg,
"Juan Ruiz's Heterosexual 'Good Love'"; Louise O. Vasvari, "The Semiotics
of Phallic Aggression and Anal Penetration as Male Agonistic Ritual in the Libro de
buen amor"; Michael Solomon, "Fictions of Infection: Diseasing the Sexual
Other in Francesc Eiximenis's Lo llibre de les dones"; Sara Lipton, "
'Tanquam effeminatum' : Pedro II of Aragon and the Gendering of Heresy in the Albigensian
Crusade"; Gregory S. Hutcheson, "Desperately Seeking Sodom: The Nature of
Queerness in the Chronicles of Don Alvaro de Luna"; Barbara Weissberger, " '!A
tierra, puto!': Alfonso de Palencia's Discourse of Effeminacy"; E. Michael Gerli,
"Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in Celestina";
Linde Brocato, " 'Tened por espejo su fin' : Mapping Gender and Sex in 15th- and
16th-Century Spain";Israel Burshatin, "Written on the Body: Slave or
Hermaphrodite in 16th-Century Spain"; Mary Elizabeth Perry, "From Convent to
Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gendering the Self in the New World of Imperial
Spain"
Camille, Michael. Mirror in parchment : the Luttrell Psalter and the making of
medieval England, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Hanawalt Barbara A. and David Wallace. eds. Bodies and disciplines : intersections
of literature and history in fifteenth-century England, Minneapolis, Minn. :
University of Minnesota Press, c1996.Gade, K.E., "Homosexuality and the Rape of Males
in Old Norse Law and Literature", Scandinavian Studies 58 (1986), pp. 124-141
Hanawalt, Barbara A. Of good and ill repute : gender and social control in medieval
England. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Heyworth, D.L., "Jocelin of Brakeland, Abbot Samson and the Case of William the
Sacrist" in Middle English Studies; presented to Norman Davis in honour of his
seventieth birthday, ed. Douglass Gray & E.G. Stanley, (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1983)
William's fault was sodomy not mismanagement.
Jochens, Jenny. "The Illicit Love Visit: An Archaeology of Old Norse
Sexuality." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3 (1991): 357-92.
Krekic, B, "Abominandum-Crimen: Punishment of Homosexuals in Renaissance
Dubrovnik", Viator 18 (1987), pp. 337-345
Monter, E. William, "Sodomy and Heresy in Early Modern Switzerland", Journal
of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 41-55, trans. and revision of "La sodomie a
l'epoque moderne en Suisse Romande", Annales ESC 29 (1974), pp. 1023-1033
Sørensen, Preben M., The Unmanly Man: Concepts of Sexual Defamation in Early Norse
Society, (Odense: Odense University Press, 1983)
F: Sexuality and Law
a) Church Law
Brundage, James, Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe, (Chicago
& London: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Must now be the standard work on the subject.
Gauthier, Albert, "La sodomie dans le droit canonique medieval" in L'Erotisme
au Moyen Age: Etudes presentees au IIe Colloque de l'Institut d'Etudes Medievales, 3-4
Avril 1976, ed. Roy, Bruno (Montreal: Ed. Aurore, 1977), pp. 109-122
Goodich, Michael, "Sodomy in Ecclesiastical Law and Theory", Journal of
Homosexuality 1:3 (1976), pp. 427-434
Looks at penitentials, patristics, canons, episcopal instructions to the clergy.}
Laeuchli, Samuel, Power and Sexuality: The Emergence of Canon Law at the Synod of
Elvira, (Philadelphia: 1972)
b) Civil and Secular Law
Gigeroff, Alexis K., Sexual Deviations in the Criminal, (Toronto: Univ. of
Toronto Press for the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 1968)
Goodich, Michael, "Sodomy in Medieval Secular Law", Journal of
Homosexuality 1:3 (1976), pp. 295-302
Criticised by Boswell, (Social Tolerance p.291) for not assessing the meaning
of "sodomy", for assuming religious prejudice alone accounts for anti-gay laws,
and for lumping all laws in the late medieval period together.
Grande, L., "Laws and Attitudes towards Homosexuality from Antiquity to the Modern
Era", Ponte 43:4-5 (1987), pp. 122-129
Labalme, Patricia H., "Sodomy and Venetian Justice in the Renaissance", Revue
d'Histoire du Droit 52:3 (1985), pp. 217-254
Reinhard, J.R., "Burning at the Stake in Medieval Law and Literature", Speculum 16 (1941), pp. 190 ff.
Stanley-James, D., "Sexual Inversion and English Law", The Medical Press
and Circular 215 (1946), pp. 391-398
Suggests that the introduction of Aristotle into the curriculum at Paris somehow veiled a
battle over homosexuality.
G: Homosexual Individuals
Chaplais, Pierre, Piers Gaveston: Edward II's Adoptive Brother,
(Oxford: 199?)
Argues that Edward II was not homosexual , and that Gaveston was his adoptive brother.
Cuttino, G.P. & T.W. Lyman, "Where is Edward II?", Speculum 53
(1978), pp. 522-544
Daniel, Marc, "Was St. Thomas a Homosexual", trans. Marcel Martin, Homophile
Studies: ONE Institute Quarterly 19 (1963), pp. 68-71
Denies Jean Anouilh's portrayal of Becket and Henry II as lovers.
Gillingham, John, "Richard I and Berengaria of Navarre", Bulletin of the
Institute of Historical Research 53:128 (1980), pp. 157-173
The alliance with Navarre vs. France and Richard's supposed homosexuality.
Gilman, Sander L., "Leonardo sees himself: reading Leonardo's first
representations of human sexuality", Social Research 54:1 (1987), pp. 149-171
Goldberg, J., "Society and Sodomy: The Case of Christopher Marlowe", Southwest
Review 69 (1984?), pp. 371-378
Graham, James, The Homosexual Kings of England, (London: Universal Tandem Pub.
Co, 1968)
brief and superficial: William II, Richard I, Edward II, James I and William III.
McGuire, B., "Love, Friendship and Sex in the 11th Century: The Experience of
Anselm", Studia Theologia 28 (1974), pp. 11-32
Looks at spiritual/erotic affections. Finds Anselm unobsessed with male sexuality.
Russo, William, "Leonardo: A Brush with Gayness", In Touch no. 37
(Sept-Oct, 1978), pp. 39, 92-95
Published records show 1474 sodomy charge against Leonardo. He later took boys as lovers.
Russo, William, "Caravaggio", In Touch 39 (Jan-Feb 1979), pp. 74-75,
78-79
Russo, William, "Edward II, England's Gay King", In Touch 43 (Sept-Oct
1979), pp. 61-63
Southern, Richard W., St. Anselm and his Biographer, (Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1963)
pp.67-76 on the cult of Ganymede
H: Other Issues
a) Homosexuality, Heresy and Witchcraft
Bullough, Vern L., "Heresy, Witchcraft and Sexuality", Journal of
Homosexuality 1 (1974), pp. 183-201, repr. in Vern L. Bullough: Sex, Society and
History, (New York: Science History Publications, 1976)
Points out that because sources often do not distinguish between heresy, witchcraft and
homosexuality, it can be difficult to deal with medieval homosexuality.
Goodich, Michael, "Sexual Deviation as heresy in the XIIth-XIVth Centuries", Modernite
et Non-conformisme en France a travers les ages: Actes du Colloque organisee par
l'Institut d'Histoire et de Civilisation Francaise de L'Universite de Haifa, ed.
Myriam Yardeni, Studies in the History of Christian Though 28, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1983)
Karlen, Arno, "The Homosexual Heresy", Chaucer Review 6:1 (1971), pp.
44-63
Monter, E. William, "Sodomy and Heresy in Early Modern Switzerland", Journal
of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 41-55, trans. and revision of "La sodomie a
l'epoque moderne en Suisse Romande", Annales ESC 29 (1974), pp. 1023-1033
Russell, Jeffrey B., Witchcraft in the Middle Ages, (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1972)
Monter, E. William, "The Pedestal and the Stake: Courtly Love and
Witchcraft", in Becoming Visible: Women in European History eds. Renate
Bridenthal & Claudia Koonz, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
Thouzellier, Christine, "Histoire des sectes dans l'occident medieval", Annuaire
de L'Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes Ve section 86 (1978-9), pp. 385-388
A study of the word "bougre" as applied to cathars.
Thouzellier, Christine, "Etude du term bougre, applique aux heretiques
cathares", Annuaire de L'Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes Ve section 87
(1979-80), pp. 419-421
b) Homosexuality, Leprosy and Sickness
Brody, Saul N., The Disease of the Soul, (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1974)
Discusses association of sexuality with leprosy
Bullough, Vern L. & Bonnie Bullough, Sin, Sickness and Sanity: A History of
Sexual Attitudes, (New York: 1977)
c) Paedophilia
Eglinton, J.S., Greek Love, (New York: Oliver Layton Press, 1964)
Looks at history of "boy-love" in Greece, Rome, Middle ages and present.
d) Bestiality
Brouillard, R., "Bestialite",in Dictionnaire de droit canonique 7
vols., (Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ane, 1935-65), pp. 793-799
Bestiality was also seen as a "crime against nature" Nothing beats canon lawyers
for being blunt.
e) Transvestism
Bullough, Vern L., "Transvestism in the Middle Ages: A Sociological
Analysis", American Journal of Sociology 79 (1974), pp. 1381-1394, modified
repr. in Vern L. Bullough & James Brundage, Sexual Practices and the Medieval
Church, New Concepts in Human Sexuality Series, (Prometheus Books, 1982)
Uses mainly hagiographical evidence.
Bullough, Vern L. and Bonnie Bullogh, Cross-Dressing, Sex, and Gender,
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvanis Press, 1993)
V: Early Modern Homosexuality - 1500-1800
A: General
Bingham, Caroline, "Seventeenth-century Attitudes toward Deviant
Sex", Journal of Interdisciplinary History 1:3, pp. 448 ff.
Boehrer, Bruce Thomas. "Early Modern Syphilis." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 1:2 (1990): 197-214.
Brown, Judith, "Lesbian Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" in
Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History,
New York: NAL, 1989), 67-75
Cassio, A.C., "Post Classical Lesbiai", Classical Quarterly 33:1 (1983), 296-97
Crompton, Louis, "The Myth of Lesbian Immunity", in Salvatore J. Licata
& Robert P. Petersen, eds., The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays,
(New York; Haworth, 1985), originally Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (Fall/Winter
1980), 11-26
Delumeau, Jean, Sin and Fear: The Emergence of Western Guilt Culture in thr
13th-18th Centuries, trans. Eric Nicholson, (New York: St. Martins Press, 1990; French
original 1983)
A widely read discussion of the emergence of a "guilt culture" in the Est. Pp
436-45 is a vital discussion of the obsession with impurity, and indeed its equation with
sin, in the Counter-Reformation period. Despite modern Roman approval of marriage,
Delumeau demonstrates that long after marriage had been accepted as "sacrament"
(in the 13th century), Roman Catholic leaders and moralists remained extremely suspicious
of any sexuality. The chief point of the book, though, is its discussion of the use
of fear and guilt (with phenomena like "sin lists) by religious leaders to terrify
and control the laity.
DiGangi, Mario. The homoerotics of early modern drama. Cambridge; NewYork:
Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Fradenburg, Louise, and Carla Freccero, eds. The Pleasures of History: Reading
Premodern Sexualities, (New York: Routledge, 1996)
Gardiner, James, Who's a Pretty Boy Then? : One Hundred & Fifty Years of Gay
Life in Pictures, (?: Serpents Tail,1997)
Gerard, Kent and Gert Hekma, eds., The Pursuit of Sodomy: Male Homosexuality in
Renaissance and Englightenment Europe, (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1989)
also issued as Journal of Homosexuality 16:1/2 (1988))
Goldberg, Jonathan, Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities, (Stanford:
Stanford UP, 1992)
As with many books written by literature scholars it is hard to get over the perception
that the author is engaging in a conspicuous display of cleverness, whatever the merit of
the work itself.
Goldberg, Jonathan, ed. Reclaiming Sodom, (London, New York: Routledge, 1994)
Goldberg, Jonathan, ed., Queering the Renaissance, (Durham: Duke University
Press, 1994)
Gwilliam, Tassie. "Female Fraud: Counterfeit Maidenheads in the Eighteenth
Century." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4 (1996): 518-48.
Hurteau, Pierre, "Catholic Moral Discourse on Male Sodomy and Masturbation in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:1
(1993), 1-32
Maccubin, R.P., ed., Tis Nature's Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality during the
Enlightenment, (New York: 1987)
Rousseau, G.S. "The Pursuit of Homsexuality in the Eighteenth Century: 'Utterly
Confused Category' and/or Rich Repository", Eighteenth Century Life 9 (1985),
132-68
Tentler, Thomas T., Sex and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation, (New York:
1979)
Traub, Valerie, Desire and Anxiety: Circulation of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama,
(New York: Routledge, 1992) Trumbach, Randolph, "The Birth of the Queen: Sodomy and
the Emergence of Gender Equality in Modern Culture, 1660-1750" in Martin Bauml
Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York:
NAL, 1989), 129-140
Trumbach, Randolph. "Is There a Modern Sexual Culture in the West; or, Did England
Never Change between 1500 and 1900?" Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:2
(1990): 296-309. [REVIEW ESSAY].
Zimmerman, Susan, Erotic Politics: The Dynamics of Desire in the Renaissance Theatre,
(New York: Routledge, 1993)
B: Britain
Bentman, Raymond. "Thomas Gray and the Poetry of `Hopeless Love.'" Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:2 (1992): 203-22.
Binns, J.W., "Women or Transvestite on the Elizabethan Stage?: An Oxford
Controversy", Sixteenth Century Journal 5 (1974), pp. 95-170
On the fear puritans had about homosexuality in the theatre due to the presence of
transvestite boy actors.
Bray, Alan, Homosexuality in Renaissance England, with new afterword and
bibliography, (New York: Columbia UP, 1995; London: Gay Men's Press, 2nd ed. 1988; 1st ed.
1982)
Mainly concerned with 17th and 18th centuries. Believes modern homosexual identity was
constructed in this period - opposing views of both Boswell, who held to the view of a
fairly constant gay identity, and those eho see homosexual identity emerging in the 19th
century. Despite his constructionist approach, Bray eschews the more recherche pomo jargon
of some writers.
Bredbeck, Gregory W. Sodomy and interpretation: Marlowe to Milton,(Ithaca :
Cornell University Press, 1991)
Bray, Alan, "Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship", History
Workshop Journal 29 (1990)
Bristow, Edward J, Vice and Vigilence: Purity Movements in Britain since 1700,
(Totowa NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977)
Burg, Richard, "Ho Hum, Another work of the Devil" Buggery and Sodomy in
Early Stuart England", Journal of Homosexuality 6 (1980/81), pp. 69-78
Comensoli, Viviana. "Homophobia and the Regulation of Desire: A Psychoanalytic
Reading of Marlowe's Edward II." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:2
(1993): 175-200.
Donoghue, Emma, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801,
(London: Scarlett, 1993: New York: HarperCollins, 1995)
Gilbert, A.N., "Buggery and the British Navy, 1700-1861", Journal of
Social History 10 (1976-77), 72-98
Goldberg, Jonathan., "Society and Sodomy: The Case of Christopher Marlowe", Southwest
Review 69 (1984?), pp. 371-378
Harris, John, The Destruction of Sodom: A Sermon Preached at the Public Fast, before
the Honourable Assembly of the House of Commons of Parliament, (London: C. Latham,
1628)
Example of 16th century sins of sodom litearture.
Harris, Tim, "The Bawdy House Riots of 1668", Historical Journal 29:3
(1986), pp. 537-556
p. 543 on the homosexual bishop of Rochester. Ref. Pepys Diary VIII 585, 586
Katz, Jonathan, ed., Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen
Cumming Gordon, (New York: Arno Press, 1975)
Repr. of Authorities with Regard to the Practice of Tribadism, (1811) - a
collection of authorities on lesbianism for a Scots libel case.
McCormick, Ian, ed., Secret Sexualities : A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century
Writing, (New York: Routledge, 1997)
Morris, Polly, "Incest or Survival Strategy? Plebeian Marriage within the
Prohibited Degrees in Somerset, 1730-1835." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:2 (1991): 235-65.
Nicholl, Charles, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, (New York:
Harcourt, 1992)
Norton, Rictor, Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England
1700-1830, (London: GMP, 1992)
Oaks, Robert, "Things fearful to name: Sodomy and Buggery in Seventeenth Century
New England", Journal of Social History 12 (1978), pp. 268 ff.
Rollison, D., "Property, Ideology and Popular Culture in a Gloucestershire Village
1660-1740", Past and Present 93 (1981), pp. 70-91
Discusses sodomy.
Perry, Ruth. "Colonizing the Breast: Sexuality and Maternity in Eighteenth-Century
England." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:2 (1991): 204-34.
Senelick, Laurence. "Mollies or Men of Mode? Sodomy and the Eighteenth-Century
London Stage." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:1 (1990): 33-67.
Stone, Lawrence. "Libertine Sexuality in Post-Restoration England: Group Sex and
Flagellation among the Middling Sort in Norwich in 1706-1707." Journal of the
History of Sexuality 2:4 (1992): 511-26.
Smith, Bruce R., Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics,
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
Stewart, Alan, Close readers : humanism and sodomy in early modern England.
Princeton: N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1997.
Thorssen, Marilyn, J., "Varieties of Amourous Experience: Homosexual and
Heterosexual Relationships in Marlowe and Shakespeare", in Human Sexuality in the
Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. D. Radcliff-Umstead, (Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh
Publications on the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1978), pp. 135-152
Trumbach, Randolph, "London's Sodomites: Homosexual Behaviour and Western
culture in the Eighteenth Century", Journal of Social History 11:1 (1977), pp.
1-33
Believes in a continuous homosexual subculture. Monter, "Modern Switzerland"
discusses and criticises this view.
Trumbach, Randolph, "Sodmitical Subcultures, Sodomitical Roles and the Gender
Revolution of the Eighteeenth Century" Eighteenth Century Life 9 (1985),
109-121, repr. in 'Tis Nature's Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality during the Enlightenment,
ed. R. P. Maccubin, (New York: 1987)
Trumbach, Randolph, "The Birth of the Queen: Sodomy and the Emergence of Gender
Equality in Modern Culture, 1660-1750" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and
George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 129-140
Trumbach, Randolph. "Sex, Gender, and Sexual Identity in Modern Culture: Male
Sodomy and Female Prostitution n Enlightenment London." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 2:2 (1991): 186-203.
Trumbach, Randolph, Sex and the Gender Revolution Volume 1: Heterosexuality
and the third Gender in Enlightenment London, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1998
Warnicke, R.M., "Sexual Heresy at the Court of Henry VIII", Historical
Journal 30, (1987), pp. 247-268
Wunderli, Richard M., London Church Courts and Society on the Eve of the Reformation,
(Cambridge, Mass.: 1981)
pp. 83-84, on the English anti-buggary statute
C: France
Birken, Lawrence. "Madame Bovary and the Dissolution of Bourgeois
Sexuality." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:4 (1992): 609-20 [RESEARCH
ESSAY].
Copley, A. R. H. (Antony R. H.), Sexual moralities in France, 1780-1980 : new ideas
on the family, divorce, and homosexuality : an essay on moral change, (London ; New
York : Routledge, 1989)
Courouve, Claude, "Sodomy Trials in France" , Gay Books Bulletin 1:1 (1979),
22-23, 26
Courouve, Claude , Les assemblees de la manchette : documents sur l'amour masculin
au XVIIIe siecle(Paris : C. Courouve, 1987)
Coward, D.A., "Attitudes to Homosexuality in Eighteenth Century France", Journal
of European Studies 10, pp. 236 ff.
Daniel, Marc, "A Study of Homosexuality in France during the Reigns of Louis XIII
and Louis XIV", ONE Institute Quarterly 4 (1961), pp. 77-93 & 125-136
Delon, Michel, "The Priest, the Philosopher, and Homosexuality in Enlightenment
France", Eighteenth Century Life 9 (1985), 122-131
Dickerman, Edmund H. "Henry III's Devotions: A Study in Sex and Religion", Journal
of Psychohistory 5:3 (1978), 429-42
Tries to link Henry's religious activity to his "feminine nature".
Dubois-Desaulle, G., Les infames pretres et moines non-conformistes en amour,
(Paris: Editions de la raison, 1902)
An example of French anti-clerical literature of the late 19th/early 20th century. This
one, claimiing to draw its sources from police records, list and descibes a lrage number
of homosexual French clergymen. This mainly concerns records from the early and mid 18th
century.
Duperray, Michel., De l'etat et de la capacité des ecclésiastiques pour les ordres
et bénéfices, (Paris: P. Emery et M. Brunoet, 1703)
For clerical homsexuals see pp. 312-20 (III, 8)
Hekma, Gert. "Rewriting the History of Sade." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 1:1 (1990): 131-36. [REVIEW ESSAY].
Hervez, Jean (pseud. of Raoul Vèze), Les sociétés d'amour au xviiie siècle,
(Paris: Daragon, 1906)
Jarrige, Pierre, Les jesuites mis sur l'eschaufard, (Leiden: J. Nicolas, 164)
By a Jesuit who converted to Calvinism. See Chapter 5 on homosexuality.
Jurrieu, Pierre, Prèjugés legitimes contre le papisme, (Amsterdam: H.
Desbordes, 1685)
Attacks sodomy amongst the Catholic clergy.
Merrick, Jeffrey. "Sexual Politics and Public Order in Late Eighteenth-Century
France: The Mémoires secrets and the Correspondance secrète." Journal of the
History of Sexuality 1:1 (1990): 68-84.
Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr., eds., Homosexuality in Modern France,
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
Nouveau, Pierre, "La péché philosophique au de l'homosexualité du xviiie
siècle", Arcadie, nos. 254-259/60 (Feb-Oct 1975)
Rivers, Christopher. "Safe Sex: The Prophylactic Walls of the Cloister in the
French Libertine Convent Novel of the Eighteenth Century." Journal of the History
of Sexuality 5:3 (1995): 381-402.
Robinson, Christopher, Scandal in the ink : male and female homosexuality in
twentieth-century French literature, (London ; New York, NY: Cassell, 1995)
Rey, Michel, "Police et Sodomie a Paris au XVIII siecle", Revue d'histoire
moderne et contemporaire 29 (1982), pp. 116 ff.
Rey, Michel, "Paris Homosexuals Create a Lifestyle, 1700-1750", Eighteenth
Century Life 9 (3) (1985), pp. 179 ff.
Stone, Donald, Jr. "The Sexual Outlaw in France, 1605." Journal of the
History of Sexuality 2:4 (1992): 597-608 [RESEARCH ESSAY].
Teaseley, D., "The Charge of Sodomy as a Political Weapon in Early Modern France -
The Case of Henry III in Catholic League Polemic, 1585-1589", Maryland Historian 18:1 (1987), pp. 17-30
D: Netherlands
[See Articles in Gerard and Hekma]
Agnos, Peter, ed., The Queer Dutchman: True Account of Sailor Castaway on a Desert
Island for 'Unnatural Acts" and Left to Gods' Mercy, (New York: Green Eagle
Press, 1978)
Hussen, Arend H., "Sodomy in the Dutch Republic During the Eighteenth
Century" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 141-152
Leboutte, René. "Offense against Family Order: Infanticide in Belgium from the
Fifteenth through the Early Twentieth Centuries." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 2:2 (1991): 159-85.
Meer, Theo van der. De wesentlijke sonde van sodomie en andere vuyligheeden:
sodomietenvervolgingen in Amsterdam 1730-1811, (Amsterdam : Tabula, 1984)
Noordam, D.J., "Homosocial Relations in Leiden (1533-1811), in Among Men, Among
Women: Sociological and Historcial Recognition of Homosocial Arrangements, (Gay
Studies and Women's Studies Conference, University of Amsterdam, 22-26 June 1983),
collected papers, (Amsterdam: Sociological Institute, University of Amsterdam, 1983),
218-23
Roemer, L. S. A. M. von., Uranism in the Netherlands till the nineteenth century
with special emphasis on the numerous persecutions of Uranians in 1730 : an historic and
bibliographic study, trans. Michael A. Lombardi, (Los Angeles : Urania Manuscripts,
1978)
E: Spain/Iberia
Anabarbite Rivas, Hector and Ricardo Lorenzo Sanz, Homosexualidad: el
asunto esta caliente, (Madrid: Queimada, 1979)
Looks at data from the Inquisition and then modern Spanish gay movement.
Blackmore Josiah and Gregory S. Hutcheson, eds., Queer Iberia: Crossing Cultures,
Crossing Sexualities. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Forthcoming [998?])
CONTENTS: Josiah Blackmore, "The Poets of Sodom"; Benjamin Liu, " 'Affined
to love the Moor' : Sexual Misalliance and Cultural Mixing in the Cantigas d'escarnho e
de mal dizer"; Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas, "Male Bonding in Texts of Alfonso
X, Ramon Llull, and Juan Manuel: Cultural Constructions of Homosocial Friendship in
Medieval Iberia"; Catherine Brown, "Queer Representation in the Arcipreste de
Talavera, Or, the maldezir de mugeres is a Drag"; Daniel Eisenberg,
"Juan Ruiz's Heterosexual 'Good Love'"; Louise O. Vasvari, "The Semiotics
of Phallic Aggression and Anal Penetration as Male Agonistic Ritual in the Libro de
buen amor"; Michael Solomon, "Fictions of Infection: Diseasing the Sexual
Other in Francesc Eiximenis's Lo llibre de les dones"; Sara Lipton, "
'Tanquam effeminatum' : Pedro II of Aragon and the Gendering of Heresy in the Albigensian
Crusade"; Gregory S. Hutcheson, "Desperately Seeking Sodom: The Nature of
Queerness in the Chronicles of Don Alvaro de Luna"; Barbara Weissberger, " '!A
tierra, puto!': Alfonso de Palencia's Discourse of Effeminacy"; E. Michael Gerli,
"Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in Celestina";
Linde Brocato, " 'Tened por espejo su fin' : Mapping Gender and Sex in 15th- and
16th-Century Spain";Israel Burshatin, "Written on the Body: Slave or
Hermaphrodite in 16th-Century Spain"; Mary Elizabeth Perry, "From Convent to
Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gendering the Self in the New World of Imperial
Spain"
Carrasco, Rafael, Inquisicion y represion sexual en Valencia : historia de los
sodomitas, 1565-1785,. (Barcelona : Laertes, 1985)
Bunch, Charlotte, Passionate Politics, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987)
Pp. 168-173 on a 17th century Spanish Lesbian nun.
Mott, Luiz, and Aroldo Assuncao, "Love's Labors Lost: Five Letters from a
Seventeenth Century Portuguese Sodomite" in Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma, eds., The
Pursuit of Sodomy: Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Englightenment Europe, (New
York: Harrington Park Press, 1989)
also issued as Journal of Homosexuality 16:1/2 (1988)), 91-104
The oldest homoerotic love letters in a European vernacular - sent by the sacristan of
Silves Cathedral in 1664. Preserved courtesy of the inquisition.
Perry, Mary Elizabeth, Crime and Society in Early Modern Seville, (Hanover
NH: University Presses of New England, 1980)
The spectacle of over 300 sodomites burned to death, and an account by Pedro de Leon,
who attended them beforehand. See chapter six for Catalina de Erauso, the
"nun-lieutenant" of 17th-century Spain, who said that she had used a concoction
to dry up her breasts after she ran away from the convent so that she could live as a man.
Perry, Mary Elizabeth, "The Manly Woman," American Behavioral Scientist 31:1 (Sept-Oct 1987)(special issue on New Gender Scholarship: Breaking Old Boundaries,
edited by Harry Brod and Walter Williams).
Perry, Mary Elizabeth, "The 'Neferious Sin' in Early Modern Seville" in Kent
Gerard and Gert Hekma, eds., The Pursuit of Sodomy: Male Homosexuality in Renaissance
and Englightenment Europe, (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1989) also issued as Journal
of Homosexuality 16:1/2 (1988)), 67-90
Unlike Italy, where secular governments ran the sodomy prosecutions, in Spain the
Inquisition was in charge. This is a statistical account from 17th century Seville.
F: Italy
Brown, Judith C., "Lesbian Sexuality in Renaissance Italy: The Case of
Sister Benedetta Carlini", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 9:4
(Summer 1984), pp. 751-758; repr. in The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs, ed.
Estelle B. Freedman et al (Chicago & London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1985), pp.
271-278
Brown, Judith C., Immodest Acts - The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy,
(New York: Oxford UP, 1986)
Discusses life and trials of Sister Benedetta Carlini in the 17th century. A rather
late idead of "Renaissance". Expansion of an earlier article in Signs 9:4
(1984), 751-58
Reviews
Bell, R.M., "Renaissance Sexuality and the Florentine Archives; the "lesbian
nun" of Judith Brown", Renaissance Quarterly 40 (1987), 485-511 -Review article
and discussion.
Boswell, John, "Old Habits, New Habits", New Republic Jan 6, 1986; 194:1 p.
36-39
Randall, Frederika, "Divine Visions, Diabolical Obsessions", New York Times
Book Review Jan 19, 1986; p. 27
Jnl Mod Hist 60(1988), 172-174
Cath Hist Rev 73(1987), 619-620
Histoire 108(1988), p.66
American Journal of Sociology 93(1987), 324-336;
Posner, Donald, "Caravaggio's Early Homo-erotic Works", Art Quarterly 24 (1971), 301-26
Discusses Caravaggio's milieu, that around the homosexual Cardinal del Monte.
G: Other European
Eriksson, Brigitte, "A Lesbian Execution in Germany, 1721: The Trial
Records", Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 27-40
Trial records of two lesbians tired in 1721. Based on a report in a 19th Century German
medical periodical.
H: Colonial Americas
Brown, Kathleen. "`Changed . . . into the fashion of man': The Politics
of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 6:2 (1995): 171-93.
Crompton, Louis, "Homosexuals and the Death Penalty in Colonial America", Journal
of Homosexuality 1 (1976), pp. 277-293
Dorn, Georgette M, "Latin", American -- Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial
Latin America edited by Asuncion Lavrin", Catholic Historical Review Apr 1991;
77:2 p. 346-348
Katz, Jonathan Ned, "The Age of Sodomitical Sin, 1607-1740", in Reclaiming
Sodom, ed. Jonathan Goldberg,. (London, New York: Routledge, 1994), 43-58
Oaks, Robert F., "Defining Sodomy in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts", Journal
of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 79-84
Talley, Colin L. "Gender and Male Same-Sex Erotic Behavior in British North
America in the Seventeenth Century." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:3
(1996): 385-408.
Trexler, Richard C., Sex and conquest : gendered violence, political order, and the
European conquest of the Americas, (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, c1995)
VI: Modern Western Homosexuality 1750-1980
A: General
Adam, Barry D., The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement, 2nd ed. (Boston: Twayne,
1995; 1st ed. 1987)
Good textbook. Main concern is modern period. Discusses some theoretical issues
Aldrich. R.,The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art and Homosexual Fantasy (Routledge 1993)
About modern homosexual intellectuals - from Winckelman on - and their obsession with the
liberation offered by Mediterranean cultures.
Arguelles, Lourdes & B. Ruby Rich, "Homosexuality, Homophobia, and
Revolution", Signs 9:4 (1984)
Atkinson, Ti-Grace, "Lesbianism and Feminism" in Phyllis Buckley et al, eds., Amazon Expedition, (Washington, N.J.: Times Change Press, 1973)
Baldurson, Guthni, "From Sexual Abberration to Sexual Inversion", in IGA
Pink Book, edited by the International Gay Association, (Amsterdam: COC-magazijn,
1985)
Binhammer, Katherine. "The Sex Panic of the 1790s." Journal of the History
of Sexuality 6:3 (1996): 409-34.
Bland, Lucy and Laura Doan, editors. Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual
Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998
-[from the blurb] ..brings together, for the first time, many of the key documents of the
modern science of sexuality that emerged in the late nineteenth century. The
extracts (which date from the 1880s to the 1940s) cover a variety of topics including
gender and sexual difference; homosexuality; transsexuality and bisexuality;
heterosexuality; marriage and sex manuals; reproductive control; eugenics; race; and
various sexual proclivities.
Bland, Lucy and Laura Doan, editors. Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and
Desires. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998
[from the blurb] The key founders of sexology, the "science of desire," were
Havelock Ellis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Magnus Hirschfeld. This volume examines the
impact of their writings on English-speaking culture from the 1880s to the early 1940s.
How influential a field was sexology during this period, and how much power did
sexologists wield? What was the impact of their work on popular and official attitudes to
sex?
Bleys, Rudi C., The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behaviour Outside
the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918, (New York: New York University
Press, 1995)
[from the blurb] A thorough, cross-cultural history of sexual categories, focusing on such
subjects as puritanism, sodomy, and ethnicity in colonial North America; cross-gender
behavior and hermaphroditism; and the semiotics of genitalia. The author also demonstrates
that representation of cultural"otherness," as found in European thought from
the Enlightenment through modern times, is closely related to modern constructions of
homosexual identity.
Bronski, Micheal, Culture Clash - The making of gay sensibility, (Boston (USA),
South End Press, 1984)
Burton, Richard, "Terminal Essay, Part IV, Social Conditions - Pederasty", in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, 10 vols., (privately printed, 1886),
Vol 10, pp. 205-254
Burton thinks homosexual acts are endemic between 30 and 43 degrees latitude.
Chauncey, Jr., George , "From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: The Changing
Medical Conceptualization of Female `Deviance'," in Passion and Power: Sexuality
in History, ed. Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons with Robert A. Padgug, (Philadelphia
: Temple University Press, 1989),87-117.
Cooper, Emmanuel, The Sexual Perspective: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100
Years in the West, 2nd ed., (New York: Routledge, 1994)
De Jongh, Nicholas, Not in Front of the Audience: Homosexuality on Stage, (New
York: Routledge, 1992)
Faderman, Lilian, Surpassing the Love of Men, (New York: William Morrow,
1981)
History of Lesbians based on literary sources.
Gill, John, Queer Noises : Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Music,
Minneapolis: Univ of Minnesota Press, 1995)
Hausman, Bernice L. "Demanding Subjectivity: Transsexualism, Medicine, and the
Technologies of Gender." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:2 (1992):
270-302.
Hewitt, Andrew, Political Inversions : Homosexuality, Fascism, & the Modernist
Imaginary, Stanford CA: Stanford Univ Press, 1996)
IGA Pink Book, edited by the International Gay Association, (Amsterdam:
COC-magazijn, 1985)
Contemparary Gay Life in countries around the world: Legal position, social expectations
etc.
Irvine, Janice M. "Reinventing Perversion: Sex Addiction and Cultural
Anxieties." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:3 (1995): 429-50.
Parikas, Udo, and Teet Veispak., Sexual minorities and society : the changing
attitudes toward homosexuality in the 20th century Europe; papers presented to the
international conference in Tallinn, May 28-30, 1990, (Talinn, Estonia: Eesti TA Ajaloo
Instituut, 1991)
Plummer, Ken, ed. Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences,
(New York: Routledge, 1993)
Peiss, Kathy, and Christina Simmons with Robert A. Padgug, eds., Passion and Power:
Sexuality in History, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989),87-117.
Robb, George. "The Way of All Flesh: Degeneration, Eugenics, and the Gospel of
Free Love." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4 (1996): 589-603.
Snitow, Ann, Christin Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, eds, Powers of Desire: The
Politics of Sexuality, (New York: 1983)
Contains a number of classic articles.
Somerville, Siobhan. "Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual
Body." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:2 (1994): 243-66.
B: Britain
Bartkowski, Frances, and Catherine Stearns. "The Lost Icon in The White
Hotel." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:2 (1990): 283-95.
Berg, Charles, Fear, Punishment, Anxiety, and the Wolfenden Report, (London:
Allen & Unwin,1959)
Bristow, Joseph, Effeminate England: Homoerotic Writing after 1885, (New York:
Columbia University Press, c1995)
Bourne, Stephen, Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971,
(London: Cassell, 1996)
reviews over 150 films.
Castle, Terry, Noel Coward & Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits, (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1996)
Chedgzoy, Kate.Shakespeare's Wueer Children: Sexual Politics and Contemporary
Culture, (Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : [Distrib.]
St. Martin's Press, 1995)
Clark, Anna. "Anne Lister's Construction of Lesbian Identity." Journal of
the History of Sexuality 7:1 (1996): 23-50.
Cowan, James C. "D. H. Lawrence's Sexual Fallacies." Journal of the
History of Sexuality 5:1 (1994): 115-41.
Craft, Christopher, Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English
Discourse, 1850-1920, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994)
Croft-Cooke, Rupert, Feasting With Panthers, (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and
Winston, 1967)
Late Victorian homosexuals: Wilde, Swinbourne, Symonds.
Croft-Cooke, Rupert, The Verdict of You All, (London: Secker and Warburg, 1965)
An account of the author's arrest and trial for homosexual offenses in 1953, and his
prison experiences.
Crompton, Louis, Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th Century England,
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985)
Davenport-Hines, R. P. T. (Richard Peter Treadwell), Sex, death, and punishment :
attitudes to sex and sexuality in Britain since the Renaissance, (London : Collins,
1990)
Davidson, Roger. "Venereal Disease, Sexual Morality, and Public Health in Interwar
Scotland." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:2 (1994): 267-94.
Dellamora, Richard, Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian AEstheticism,
(Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990)
Dowling, Linda, Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford, (Ithaca and
London: Cornell, 1994)
Although her interests are more general, Dowling devotes a chapter to examining the
Tractarian, or Oxford movement in the Church of England, which led to many converts to
Roman Catholicism as well as the modern Anglo-Catholic movement. She discusses the
homosexuality in the lives of figures such as Gerard Manly Hopkins, Fr. William Faber and
John Henry Newman, relying at times on Geoffrey Faber's book cited here below,
Faber, Geoffrey, The Oxford Apostles, (London: 1933)
Discusses homosexuality in the Anglo-Catholic movement, and of such Roman converts as
Newman, Richard Hurrell Froude, Fr. Frederick Faber. Faber's book was the first to name
names.
Faderman, Lilian, Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordan,
(New York: William Morrow, 1983)
Dramatisation of Scottish trial involving lesbians in 1792: No footnotes or bibliography
but see also Jonathan Katz, ed., Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame
Helen Cumming Gordon, (New York: Arno Press, 1975), a repr. of Authorities with
Regard to the Practice of Tribadism, (1811) - a collection of authorities on
lesbianism for a Scots libel case.
Fone, Byrne R. S., A Road to Stonewall: Male Homosexuality and Homophobia in English
and American Literature, 1750-1969, (New York : TwaynePublishers ; Toronto : Maxwell
Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1995)
Galloway, Bruce, ed., Prejudice and Pride, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1983)
Modern British gay concerns,
Gay Left Collective, eds., Homosexuality: Power and Politics, (London:
Allison & Busby, 1978)
Theoretical treatment of gays and lesbians in a capitalist society.
Gilbert, Arthur N., "The `Africaine' Courts-Martial: A Study of Buggery in the
Royal", Journal of Homosexuality 1 (1974), pp. 111-122
Gilbert, Arthur N., "Buggery and the British Navy", Journal of Social
History (1976), pp. 72-98
Gilbert, Arthur N., "Doctor, Patient, and Onanist Diseases in the Nineteenth
Century", Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (1975)
Gilbert, Arthur N., "Sexual Deviance and Disaster during the Napoleonic
Wars", Albion 9 (Spring, 1977), pp. 98-113
Gilmore, Leigh. "Obscenity, Modernity, Identity: Legalizing The Well of Loneliness
and Nightwood." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:4 (1994): 603-24.
Gleckner, Robert F.Gray Agonistes: Thomas Gray and Masculine Friendship¸(Baltimore,
Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
Hall, Lesley A. "Forbidden by God, Despised by Men: Masturbation, Medical
Warnings, Moral Panic, and Manhood in Great Britain, 1850-1950." Journal of the
History of Sexuality 2:3 (1992): 365-87.
Hanscombe, Gillian and Andew Lumsden, Title Fight: The Battle for GAY NEWS,
(London: Brilliance Books, 1983)
Account of the first British LGB paper, its problems and its demise. Hanscombe and Lumsden
were participants in the struggle, so this is hardly an unbiased account.
Harvey, A.D., "Prosecutions for Sodomy in England at the Beginning of the
Ninetheenth Century", Historical Journal 21 (1978), 939-48
Healey, Emma, and Angela Mason, eds. Stonewall 25: The Making of the Lesbian and Gay
Community in Britain, (London : Virago Press, 1994)
Healy, Murray, Gay Skins : Class, Masculinity and Queer Appropriation, (London:
Cassell Academic, 1996)
[From blurb] Murray Healy contests the myths of masculinity that constitute and are
seemingly evidenced by the skinhead, and challenges assumptions about class, queerness and
real men. He deconstructs the authentic masculinity of the skinhead, drawing parallels
between the extreme masculinization of the skinhead and homoerotic desire and fantasy. He
suggests that straight and gay skinss lifestyles are radically similar. Healy assesses
what gay men have done to the hardest youth cult of them all, and how it has transformed
the gay scene.
Higgins, Patrick, Heterosexual Dictatorship: Male Homosexuality in Postwar Britain,
(London : Fourth Estate, 1996)
Hillard, David, "UnEnglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and
Homosexuality", Victorian Studies 25 (Winter 1982), 181-210
Very interesting account of homosexuality and the Anglo-Catholic movement in the
Anglican Church.
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Cleveland Street Scandal, (New York: Coward-McCann and
Geoghegan, 1976)
A Homosexual scandal in Victorian Britain
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Love that Dared Not Speak Its Name: A Candid History of
Homosexuality in Britain, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970)
Hyde is careful to proclaim his own heterosexual status.
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, (New York: University
Books 1956)
These trials marked the onset of an anti-homosexual rage in Britain that was take as
"tradition" when the long night was broken in the 1970s.
Jeffrey-Poulter, Stephen, Peers, Queers and Commons: The Struggle for Gay Law
Reform from 1950 to the Present, (New York: Routledge, 1991)
Katz, Jonathan, ed., Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen
Cumming Gordon, (New York: Arno Press, 1975)
repr. of Authorities with Regard to the Practice of Tribadism, (1811) - a
collection of authorities on lesbianism for a Scots libel case.
Lane, Christopher, The Ruling Passion : British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of
Homosexual Desire, (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995)
Lane, Christopher. The Burdens of Intimacy: Psychoanalysis and Victorian
Masculinity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999
Maynard, John, Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion, (Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 199?)
Macnicol, John. "The Voluntary Sterilization Campaign in Britain, 1918-1939." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:3 (1992): 422-38.
Mahood, Linda, and Barbara Littlewood. "The 'Vicious' Girl and the `Street-Corner'
Boy: Sexuality and the Gendered Delinquent in the Scottish Child-Saving Movement, 1850-
1940." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:4 (1994): 549-78.
Matus, Jill L. "Saint Teresa, Hysteria, and Middlemarch." Journal of the
History of Sexuality 1:2 (1990): 215-40.
Meyers, Jeffery, Homosexuality and Literature, 1890-1930, (London: The Athlone
Press, 1977)
Newton, Esther, "The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radcliffe Hall and the New
Woman" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 281-293
Plummer, Douglas, pseud., Queer People: The Truth About Homosexuals. (London, W.
H. Allen, 1963)
Early plee for toleration.
Porter Kevin and Jeffrey Weeks, eds., Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men,
1885-1967, (London: New York: Routledge, 1991)
Personal stories.
Reade, Brian, ed., Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature from
1850-1900, (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970)
The introduction contains a discussion of homosexuality and Anglo-Catholicism, as well as
homosexuality and Roman Catholicism. Discusses Newman, Froude and Faber. Mostly consists
of extracts from prose works and poems. Includes works by Catholic authors Oscar Wilde,
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Marc Andre Raffalovich, A.C. Benson, and Fredrick William Rolfe.
Russell, George W.E., Saint Alban the Martyr, Holborn: A History of Fifty Years,
(London: George Allen and Co., 1913)
Account of a famous Anglo-Catholic ritualist church in London which even in 1913 was, as
the book says, "a young man's church". The Church in over 150 years never seems
to have had anything other than homosexual clergy. Its annual St. Alban's Day dedicatory mass is one of the campest events in Britain's ecclesiastical calendar, only
matched by the annual Anglo-Catholic pilgrimmage to Walsingham.
Sargant, Tom, Buggers Talk: A Social History of British Gay Life 1900-1975,
(London: Millivres Books, Publication date: October 1,1997)
Senelick, Laurence.. "The Homosexual as Villain and Victim in Fin-de-Siècle
Drama." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:2 (1993): 201-29.
Sinfield, Alan, The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Moment,
(New York : Columbia University Press, 1994: London: Cassell, 1994)
Sheets, Robin Ann. "Pornography, Fairy Tales, and Feminism: Angela Carter's `The
Bloody Chamber.'" Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:4 (1991): 633- 57.
Shefer, Elaine. "The `Bird in the Cage' in the History of Sexuality: Sir John
Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3 (1991): 446-80.
Smith, Patricia Juliana, Lesbian Panic : Homoerotics in Modern British Women's
Fiction, (New York: Columbia Univ Press, 1997)
Smith, Timothy D'Arch, Love In Earnest; some notes on the lives and writings of
English 'Uranian' poets from 1889 to 1930, (London: Routledge, 1970).
Study of the Uranian paederastic tradition in England.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, "Discourses of Sexuality and Subjectivity: The New
Woman, 1870-1936 " in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 264--281
Simpson, Colin, Lewis Chester & David Leitch, The Cleveland Street Affair,
(Boston: Little Brown, 1976)
A Homosexual scandal in Victorian Britain.
Summers, Claude J., ed, Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England :
literary representations in historical context, (New York : Haworth Press, 1992), also
pub as Journal of homosexuality, 23:1/2 (1992)
Smith, Timothy d'Arche, Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of
English "Uranian" Poets from 1889 to 1930, (London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1970)
Stokes, John, Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles, and Imitations, (Cambridge:; New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Vanita, Ruth, Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary
Imagination, (New York : Columbia University Press, 1996)
Vicinus, Martha, "Distance and Desire: English Boarding School Friendships,
1870-1920" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 212-232
Walter, Aubrey, ed., Come Together: the years of gay liberation (1970-1973),
(London: Gay Men's Press, 198 )
Articles form the London Gay Liberation Front's paper Come Together
Weeks, Jeffrey, Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain From the
Nineteenth Century to the Present, rev. ed. (New York & London: Quartet, 1990)
first ed. 1977 {Rev. in Jnl.Homo 6 (1980), pp. 214-219}
Weeks is the prime UK exponent of high social constructionist approaches.
Weeks, Jeffrey, Sex, Politics and Society, (London: Longman, 1981)
Weeks, Jeffrey, Sexuality and its Discontents, (London: 19 )
Weeks, Jeffrey, "Inverts, Perverts, and Mary-Annes: Male Prostitution and the
Regulation of Homosexuality in England in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries", Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), reprinted in Martin Bauml
Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York:
NAL, 1989), 195-211
Wildeblood, Peter, Against the Law, (London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1956;
paperback, Harmondsworth: Penguin)
First-hand account of one of the five men charged in the "Lord Montagu" case in
1954.
C: France
Barbadette, Gilles & Michel Carassou, Paris Gay 1925, (Paris:
Presses de Renaissance, 1981)
Benstock, Shari, , "Paris Lesbianism and the Politics of Reaction, 1900-1940"
in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History,
New York: NAL, 1989), 332-46
Bonnet, Marie-Jo, Un choix sans équivoque, (Paris: Editions Denoel, 1981)
Boisson, Jean, Le triangle rose: la deportation des homosexuels, 1933-1945,
(Paris : R. Laffont, c1988)
Brassai, The Secret Paris of the 30's, (New York: Pantheon, 1981)
Bory. Jean-Louis & Guy Hocquengham, Comment nous appelez vous déja?,
(Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1977)
Copley, A. R. H. (Antony R. H.), Sexual moralities in France, 1780-1980 : new ideas
on the family, divorce, and homosexuality: an essay on moral change, (London ; New
York : Routledge, 1989)
Erber, Nancy. "The French Trials of Oscar Wilde." Journal of the History
of Sexuality 6:4 (1996): 549-88.
Girard. Jacques, Le mouvement homosexuel en France, 1945-1980, (Paris:
Editions Syros, 1981)
Hahn, Pierre, ed. Nos ancêtres les pervers: la vie des homosesuels sous le
second empire, (Paris: Oliver Orban, 1971)
Selection of texts on 1852-70 period, with an introduction.
Huas, Jeanine, L'homosexualite au temps de Proust, (Dinard : Editions Danclau,
c1992)
Huddleston, Sisley, Paris Salons, Cafés, Studios, (New York: Lippincott, 1928)
Kraakman, Dorelies. "Reading Pornography Anew: A Critical History of Sexual
Knowledge for Girls in French Erotic Fiction, 1750-1840." Journal of the History
of Sexuality 4:4 (1994): 517-48.
Lever, Maurice. Les buchers de Sodome : histoire des "infames",
(Paris: Fayard, c1985)
Martel, Frederic, Le rose et le noir : les homosexuels en France depuis 1968,
(Paris: Seuil, c1996)
Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr., eds., Homosexuality in modern France,
(New York : Oxford University Press, 1996)
Mitzman, Arthur. "Michelet and the Republican Mission, 1868- 1870: The Policing of
Eros." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:1 (1992): 1-32.
Seel, Pierre, I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror,
(New York: Basic Books, 1995)
Schehr, Lawrence R. Alcibiades at the door : gay discourses in French literature,
(Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995)
Schehr, Lawrence R., The shock of men : homosexual hermeneutics in French writing,
(Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995)
Weiss, Andrea, Paris was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank , (New York:
HarperCollins, 1996)
The literary lesbian subculture in Paris at the turn of the century: Colette, Djuna
Barnes, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
D: Spain/Iberia
Alonso Tejada, Luis, La represion sexual en la Espana de Franco,
(Barcelona: Caraly, 1977)
On gays see pp 217-24.
Fluvia, Armand de, "El movimento homosexual en el estado espanol", In José
Ramon Enriquez, El Homsexual ante la Sociedad Enferma, (Barcelona: Tusquets, 1978)
Mirabet I Mullol, Antoni, Homosexualidad Hoy, (Barcelona: Editorial Herder,
1985)
An important reference in Spanish to homosexuality. Looks at theories and the emerging gay
movement. in Spanish and Catalan.
Sahuquillo, Angel, Federico Garcia Lorca y la cultura de la homosexualidad : Lorca,
Dali, Cernuda, Gil-Albert, Prados y la voz silenciada del amor homosexual, ( Stockholm
: Romanska Institutionen, Stockholms universitet, c1986)
E: Germany/Austria
Allen, Ann Taylor. "Feminism, Venereal Diseases, and the State in Germany,
1890-1918." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:1 (1993): 27-50.
Asprey, Robert, The Panthers Feast, (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1959)
Biography of Colonel Alfred Redl, Austro-Hungarian Deputy Chief of Intelligence in the
First World War. Uses novel techniques.
Asprey, Robert, Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma, (1988)
Balser, Kristof. [et al.], eds. Himmel und Holle: das Leben der Koelner
Homosexuellen 1945-1969, (Koeln: Emons, 1994)
Baumgardt, Manfred, "Berlin, ein Zentrum der entstehenden Sexualenwissenschaften
und dir Vorlaufer der Homosexualitat-Bewegung", "Das Institut fur
Sexualwissenschaft und die Homosexuelle Bewegung in der Wiemarer Republik", and
"Die Homosexuellen-Bewegung bis zum Ende des Erstern Weltkreiges", in Eldorado,
ed. by the Berlin Museum, (Berlin: Frolich & Kaufmann, 1984)
Bei, Neda. [et al.], eds.,Das Lila Wien um 1900: zur Asthetik der Homosexualitaten.
(Vienna: Edition Spuren, Promedia, c1986)
Benkert (Kertbeny), K.M., Paragraph 143 des preussichen Strafgesetzebuches
vom14.4.1851 und seine Aufrechterhaltung als Paragraph 152 im Entwurf eines
Strafgesetzbuches fur den Norddeutschen Buns..., (Leipzig: 1869); repr. in Jahrbuch
fur sexuelle Zwischenstufen 7 (1905), pp. 1-66
first use of the word "homosexual"
Documents in the Homosexual Rights Movement in Germany, 1836-1927, (New York:
Arno Press, 1975)
Eldorado, ed. by the Berlin Museum, (Berlin: Frolich & Kaufmann, 1984)
Illustrates history of gay men and lesbians in Germany before 1950, based on a 1984
exhibition.
Fout, John C. "Sexual Politics in Wilhelmine Germany: The Male Gender Crisis,
Moral Purity, and Homophobia." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:3 (1992):
388-421.
Eissler, W. U., Arbeiterparteien und Homosexuellenfrage : zur Sexualpolitik von SPD
und KPD in der Weimarer Republik, (Berlin : R. Winkel, 1980).
Evans, Richard, The Feminist Movement in Germany, 1894-1933, (London: Sage,
1976)
Faderman, Lilian & Brigette Erikson, Lesbian-Feminism in Turn-of the Century
Germany, (Weatherby Lake, Mo.: Naiad Press, 1980)
History of Lesbianism in Germany 1895-1921, including Anna Rulings address to the
Scientific-Humantarian Commitee.
Got, Ambroise, "Le vice organisé en Allemagne", Mercure de France 161
(1923)
Grumbach, Detlef, ed., Die Linke und das Laster: schwule Emanzipation und linke
Vorurteile, (Hamburg: MannerschwarmSkript Verlag, 1995)
Herzen, W., "Antithetical Sexual Sentiment and Section 175 of the Imperial Penal
Law, 1898", in Bernstein on Homosexuality, trans. Angela Clifford, (Belfast:
Athol Books, 1984)
Herzer, Manfred, "Nazis, Psychiatrists, and Gays", Cabirion 12
(Spring/Summer, 1985)
Herzer, Manfred, "Kertbeny and the Nameless Love", Journal of
Homosexuality, 12:1 (1985), 1-26
On the man who first used the words "homosexual" and "homosexuality".
Hirschfeld, Magnus, "Berlins drittes Geschlecht", & "Sappho und
Socrates", in Documents of the Homosexual Rights Movement in Germany, 1836-1927,
(New York: Arno, 1985)
Hohman, Joachim, Keine Zeit fur gute Freunde, (Berlin: Foerster Verlag, 1982)
Hull, Isabel, The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II. 1888-1918, (Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1982)
Jones, James W., "We of the third sex": literary representations of
homosexuality in Wilhelmine Germany. (New York : P. Lang, c1990)
Kennedy, Hugh, Ulrichs: The Life and Works of the Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Pioneer of
the Modern Gay Movement, (Boston: 1988)
Kokula, Ilse, Der Kampf gegen Unterdruckung, (Munich: Verlag Frauenoffensive,
1975)
Development of modern German Lesbian movement.
Kowalski, Gudrun von. Homosexualitat in der DDR: ein historischer Abriss,
(Marburg : Verlag Arbeiterbewegung und Gesellschaftswissenschaft, c1987)
Kuzniar, Alice, ed., Outing Goethe and His Age, (Stanford: Stanford University
Press, forthcoming)
Lauritsen, John & David Thorstad, The Early Homosexual Rights Movement
(1864-1953), (New York: Times Change Press, 1974)
First book on the subject in 1970s.
Lautmann, Rudiger, and Angela Taeger, eds., Mannerliebe im alten Deutschland :
sozialgeschichtliche Abhandlungen, (Berlin : Rosa Winkel, 1992)
Lemke, Jurgen, ed., Gay Voices from East Germany, (Bloomington IN: Indiana Univ
Press, 1991)
Moeller, Robert G. "`The Homosexual Man Is a "Man," the Homosexual Woman
Is a "Woman"': Sex, Society, and the Law in Postwar West Germany." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 4:3 (1994): 395-429.
Muller, Klaus, Aber in meinem Herzen sprach eine Stimme so laut : homosexuelle
Autobiographien und medizinische Pathographien im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, (Berlin :
Verlag Rosa Winkel, c1991)
Oosterhuis Harry, ed. (translations by Hubert Kennedy), Homosexuality and male
bonding in pre-Nazi Germany : the youth movement, the gay movement, and male bonding
before Hitler's rise : original transcripts from Der Eigene, the first gay journal in the
world, (New York : Harrington Park Press, c1991)[ "Simultaneously issued by the
Haworth Press, Inc., under the same title, as special issues of Journal of homosexuality
22:1/2, 1991)
Richter, Simon. "Wet Nursing, Onanism, and the Breast in Eighteenth-Century
Germany." Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:1 (1996): 1-22.
Richter, Simon, "Winckelmann's Progeny: Homosocial Networking in
Eighteenth-Century Germany", in Alice Kuzniar, Ed., Outing Goethe and His Age,
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming)
Steakley, James, The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany, (New York:
Arno, 1975)
Most important text on the issue.
Steakley, James, "Gays under Socialism: Male Homosexuality in the German
Democratic Republic", The Body Politic 29 (Dec 1976-Jan 1977), pp. 15-18
Steakley, James, "Iconography of a Scandal: Political Cartoons and the Eulenberg
Affair in Wilhelmin Germany", in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George
Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 433-463
Stumke, Hans-Georg & Rudi Finkler, Rosa Winkel, Rosa Listen: Homosexuelle und
"Gesundes Volksempfinden" von Auschwitz bis heute, (Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1981)
Most comprehensiev treatment of gay movement in Germany, from Hirshcfeld until now.
Stumke, Hans-Georg, Homosexuelle in Deutschland : eine politische Geschichte,
(Originalausg. Munchen : C.H. Beck, c1989).
Toepfer, Karl. "Nudity and Modernity in German Dance, 1910-30." Journal of
the History of Sexuality 3:1 (1992): 58-108.
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich, Forschungen uber das Ratsel der mannmannlichen Liebe 12
vols. in 1, (Liepzig: 1898; repr. New York: Arno Press, 1975) Now available in English
translation The Riddle of 'Man-Manly' Love : The Pioneering Work on Male Homosexuality,
trans Michael A. Lombardi-Nash (?:Prometheus Books, 1994)
F: The Gay Holocaust
Bleuel, Hans Peter, Sex and Society in Nazi Germany, (Philadelphia:
Lippincott, 1974)
Discusses inter alia, Roehm's murder, and the view that homosexuals should be drowned in
bogs as amongst the ancient Germans.
Bock, Gisela, "Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany", Signs 8:3 (1993)
Boisson, Jean, Le triangle rose : la deportation des homosexuels, 1933-1945,
(Paris : R. Laffont, c1988)
Brand, Adolf, "Political Criminals: A Word About the Roehm Case", Journal
of Homosexuality 22:1/2 (1991),
Fischer, Erica, Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943, (New York:
HarperCollins, 199?)
A story of women in love: Felice, a young Jewish lesbian, and Elizabeth, a gentile married
woman.. Felice was deported firs to Czechoslavaki, then to a concentration camp where she
died. Elizabeth, now over 80, tells her story.
Grau, Gunter, Hidden Holocaust : Lesbian and Gay Persecution in Nazi Germany,
(London: Cassell, 1995),
translated from German. Collection of documents and accounts of the persecution of
gays and lesbians by the Nazis.
Haeberle, Erwin J., "Swastika, Pink Triangle and Yellow - the Destruction of
Sexology and the Persecution of Homsexuals in Nazi Germany", Journal of Sex
Research 17 (1981), 270-87, repr. in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George
Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 365-382
Hamilton, Richard, Who Voted for Hitler?, (Princeton N.J.: Princeton UP, 1982)
Heger, Hans, ed., The Men With the Pink Triangles, (London: GMP, 1980)
Account of a gay man's experience of Nazi concentration camps. Note that Heger was the
reporting journalist, not the anonymous prisoner.
Hoess, Rudolf, Commandant of Auschwitz, (London: Pan Books, 1959)
Jellonnek, Burkhard, Homosexuelle unter dem Hakenkreuz: Die Verfolgung von
Homosexuellen im Dritten Reich, (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1990)
Vital German account of the whole period. The basic text on the subject. This needs to
be translated into English!
Lautmann, Rudiger, "The Pink Triangle: The Persecution of Homosexual Males in
Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany ", Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp.
141-160
Lautmann, Rudiger & E. Vismar, Pink Triangle: The Social History of
Antihomosexual Persecution in Nazi Germany, (forthcoming, ref. in Jnl.Homo 6 (1980),
p. 160)
Meve, Jorn., Homosexuelle Nazis : ein Stereotyp in Politik und Literatur des Exils,
(Hamburg : MannerschwarmSkript, 1990)
Moreck, Curt., Fuhrer durch das "lasterhafte" Berlin, (Berlin:
Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1996).
Mueller, Christine, Refutation
of Radical Right claims Connecting Gays and Nazis, [At Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual
Catholic Handbook]
See also the Table of
Contents and homophobic introduction to Scott Lively: The Pink Swastika discussed by Professor Mueller. . [At Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Catholic Handbook]
Plant, Richard, "The Men with the Pink Triangles", Christopher Street (Feb. 1978) pp. 4-10
Plant, Richard, The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals, (New
York: Owl/New Republic/Henry Holt, 1986)
Probably the best book in English on the Nazi treatment of gays, but far from perfect.
Useful bibliography.
Porter, Jack Nusan, Sexual Politics in the Third Reich: The Persecution of the
Homosexuals during the Holocaust: A Bibliography and Introductory Essay, (Newton,
Mass.: The Spencer Press :8 Burnside Rd., 02161:, 1991), ISBN 0-932270, 21 p.
Rector, Frank, The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals, (1981)
An account by a journalist who did not read German. Read Plant instead.
Schilling, Heinz-Dieter, ed., Schwule und Faschismus, (Berlin (West) : Elefanten
Press, 1983)
Schoppmann, Claudia, Nationalsozialistische Sexualpolitik und weibliche
Homosexualitat, (Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus, 1991).
Schoppmann, Claudia, Zeit der Maskierung: Lebensgeschichten lesbischer Frauen im
"Dritten Reich", (Berlin : Orlanda Frauenverlag,1993) trans as next item.
Schoppmann, Claudia.Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians during the Third
Reich, translated by Allison Brown. (New York : Columbia University Press, c1996)
Seel, Pierre, I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror,
(New York: Basic Books, 1995)
Steakley, James, "Homosexuals and the Third Reich", in Ed Jackson &
Stan Persky, eds., Flaunting It: A Decade of Gay Journalism from The Body Politic,
(Vancouver: New Star Books; Toronto: Pink Triangle Press, 1982), pp. 84-90
First English account of gays in Nazi Germany, TBP 11 (Feb, 1974), but see item
under Venema.
Venema, Adriaan, The persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis, trans. Michael A.
Lombardi, (Los Angeles : Urania Manuscripts, 1978.)
G: The Netherlands
Hekma, Gert Hekma ... [et al.], eds. Goed verkeerd: een geschiedenis van
homoseksuele mannen en lesbische vrouwen in Nederland, (Amsterdam : Meulenhoff, 1989)
Hekma, Gert. "Homosexual Behavior in the Nineteenth-Century Dutch Army." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 2:2 (1991): 266-88.
Leboutte, René. "Offense against Family Order: Infanticide in Belgium from the
Fifteenth through the Early Twentieth Centuries." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 2:2 (1991): 159-85.
Oosterhuis, Harry, Homoseksualiteit in katholiek Nederland : een sociale
Geschiedenis 1900-1970, (Amsterdam : Sua, 1992)
Teilman, Rob, Homosexualiteit in Nederland, (Amsterdam: Boom, Meppel, 1982)
van der Meer, Theo. "Tribades on Trial: Female Same-Sex Offenders in Late
Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3 (1991):
424-45.
H: Other European Countries
Baktis, Dr., Die Sexualrevolution in Russland, (Berlin: Verlag der Syndikalist;
repr. Osnabruck: Atchive Antiautoritare, n.d.)
Brockman, Jurgen, "Antihomosexualitat in den sozialistischen Landern
Osteuropas", in Rudiger Lautmann, ed., Seminar: Gesellachaft und Homosexualitat,
(Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1977)
Burgin, Diana Lewis. "Mother Nature versus the Amazons: Marina Tsvetaeva and
Female Same-Sex Love." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:1 (1995): 62-88.
Ginsberg, Terri. "Nazis and Drifters: The Containment of Radical (Sexual)
Knowledge in Two Italian Neorealist Films." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:2 (1990): 241-61.
Grupa de Accion Gay, "Liberacion sin Aqualane", Sodoma 2 (Italy: 1955)
Hauer, Gudrun et al., Rosa Liebe unterem roten Stern, (Hamburg: Fruhlings
Erwachen, 1984)
Horner, Tom, Eros in Greece: A Sexual Inquiry, (New York: Aegean Books, 1978)
Looks at modern Greede. Pp. 54-74 on gays.
Iaroslavskij, Eme;'ian Mikhailovich, Biblia dlia veruiuschchikh i neveriuiushchikh.
Chast' Il. Kniga Bytiia (The Bible for Believers and Unbelievers, Part II. The Book of
Genesis), (Moscow and Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1925), 34-39
Tries to link "sodomy" to vices practiced in Christian monasteries. Ofetn
reprinted in the former Soveit Union as anti-religious propaganda.
Järvinen, Margaretha. "Prostitution in Helsinki: A Disappearing Social
Problem?" Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:4 (1993): 608-30.
Karlinsky, Simon, "Russia's Gay Literature and History (11th-20th
centuries)", Gay Sunshine 29-30 (Summer-fall 1976), 1-7
Mainly on late 19th and early 20th century literature.
Karlinsky, Simon, "Russia's Gay Literature and Culture: The Impact of the
October Revolution" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey,
eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 347-364
Liliequist, Jonas. "Peasants against Nature: Crossing the Boundaries between Man
and Animal in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sweden." Journal of the History
of Sexuality 1:3 (1991): 393-423.
Kieran Rose, Fintan O'Toole, Diverse Communities : The Evolution of Gay and Lesbian
Politics in Ireland Undercurrents Volume 6, (?: Intl Specialized Book Service, 1995)
O'Carroll, Ide, and Eoin Collins, eds., Lesbian and Gay Visions of Ireland : Towards
the Twenty-First Century, (London?: Cassell Academic,1996)
Moss, Kevin, Tender Lads: A Gay Russian Anthology, (?:Gay Sunshine Press, 1996)
Rosen, Wilhelm von, Manens kulor : Studier i dansk bossehistorie, 1628-1912,
(Kobenhavn : Rhodos, 1993)
On Danish homosexuality, with English summary.
Trueb, Kuno and Stephan Miescher, Mannergeschichten: Schwule in Basel seit 1930,
(Basel: Buchverlag Basler Zeitung, 1988)
Watton, Lindsay F. "Constructs of Sin and Sodom in Russian Modernism,
1906-1909." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:3 (1994): 369-94.
I: North America: Pre-"Movement"
Adams, Mary Louise. "Youth, Corruptibility, and English-Canadian Postwar Campaigns
against Indecency, 1948-1955." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:1 (1995):
89-117.
Alexander, Jeb, Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life, 1918-1945, ed. Ina Russell.,
(Boston : Faber and Faber, c1993)
Battan, Jesse F. "`The Word Made Flesh': Language, Authority, and Sexual Desire in
Late Nineteenth-Century America." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:2
(1992): 223-44.
Bayer, Ronald, Homosexuality and American psychiatry: the politics of diagnosis,
with a new afterword on AIDS and homosexuality, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press, 1987)
On the complicity of the American psychiatric profession in the oppression of homosexuals.
Beemyn, Brett, ed., Creating a Place for Ourselves : Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual
Community Histories, (New York: Routledge, 1997)
[from blurb] Using oral history and rich narrative voices, this groundbreaking collection
of essays brings to life the vibrant lesbian, gay and bisexual communities that existed
all over the country in days before Stonewall. Contributors include Brett Beemyn, George
Chauncey, Allen Drexel, John Howard, David Johnson, Liz Kennedy, Marc Stein, and Roey
Thorpe.
Berubé, Allan and John D'Emilio, "The Military and Lesbians During the McCarthy
Years", Signs 9 (1986), 759-75
Berubé, Allan, "Coming Out Under Fire",Mother Jones, Feb-Mar 1983,
23-29, 45
Berubé, Allan, "Marching to A Different Drummer: Lesbian and Gay Gis in World War
II" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From
History, New York: NAL, 1989), 383-394
Berubé, Allan, Coming Out Under Fire: the history of gay men and women in World
War Two, (New York : Free Press, 1990)
Blackmer, Corinne E. "African Masks and the Arts of Passing in Gertrude Stein's
`Melanctha' and Nella Larsen's Passing." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:2 (1993): 230-63.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. "`Something Happens to Girls': Menarche and the Emergence
of the Modern American Hygienic Imperative." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:1 (1993): 99-127.
Burnham, John, "Early References to Homosexual Communities in American Medical
Writings", Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality 7 (August, 1973):36, pp. 40-49
Carpenter, C. Tyler and Edward H. Yeatts, Stars Without Garters : The Memoirs of Two
Gay Gi's in WWII, (San Francisco: Alamo Square Press,1996)
Chauncey Jr., George, "Christian Brotherhood of Sexual Perversion? Homosexual
Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era", Journal
of Social History 19 (1985), 189-212, repr. in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus
and Ceorge Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, (New York: NAL, 1989), 294-317
Chauncey, George, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay
Male World 1890-1940, (New York: Basic, 1994)
Outstanding book by a University of Chicago historian on gay male life in New York
before World War II. Based on many interviews and heavy documentary research. Challenges
the notion that it all came together only after WWII. Argues persuasively that, especially
among the working class, the distinction between "homosexual" and
"heterosexual" persons originated only between the 1930s and 1950s: before that
"queer" meant much more than just "homosexual" sex, it meant a more
radical gender inversion. A good discussion of sources for lesbian and gay history. A book
on the succeeding period is underway.
Cooney, John, The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis Cardinal Spellman,
(New York: Times Books, 1984)
Diocesan pressure reportedly reduced the discussion of "Franny's" homosexuality
in this book. Cooney cautiously mentions it on p. 91 and p.109 - and gives sources for his
information. As Gore Vidal is quoted as saying "The serious crimes of Spellman were
not sexual."
Cooper, Robyn. "Definition and Control: Alexander Walker's Trilogy on Woman." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:3 (1992): 341-64.
Corber, Robert J. "Representing the `Unspeakable': William Godwin and the Politics
of Homophobia." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:1 (1990): 85- 101.
Davis Madeline and Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, "Oral History and the Study of
Sexuality in the Lesbian Community of Buffalo, New York, 1940-1960 " in Martin Bauml
Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York:
NAL, 1989), 426-440
D'Emilio, John, "Capitalism and Gay Identity" in Ann Snitow, et al, eds, Powers
of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, (New York: 1983), 100-13 [And much
anthologised since.]
Dixon, Joy. "Sexology and the occult: Sexuality and Subjectivity in Theosophy's
New Age." Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:3 (1997): 409-33.
Duberman, Martin Baumi, "`Writhing Bedfellows': Two Young Men from Antebellum
South Carolina's Ruling Elite Share `Extravagent Delight'", Journal of
Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 85-102, reprinted in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha
Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 153-168
duCille, Ann. "`Othered' Matters: Reconceptualizing Dominance and Difference in
the History of Sexuality in America." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:1
(1990): 102-27.
duCille, Ann. "Blues Notes on Black Sexuality: Sex and the Texts of Jessie Fauset
and Nella Larsen." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:3 (1993): 418-44.
Emery, Kim. "Steers, Queers, and Manifest Destiny: Representing the Lesbian
Subject in Turn-of-the-Century Texas." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:1
(1994): 26-57.
Erkkila, Betsy and Jay Grossman, eds., Breaking Bounds : Whitman and American
Cultural Studies, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
Flannigan-Saint-Aubin, Arthur. "`Black Gay Male' Discourse: Reading Race and
Sexuality between the Lines." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:3 (1993):
468-90.
Fone, Byrne R. S., A Road to Stonewall: Male Homosexuality and Homophobia in English
and American literature, 1750-1969, (New York : TwaynePublishers ; Toronto : Maxwell
Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1995)
Friedman, Andrea S. "`The Habitats of Sex-Crazed Perverts': Campaigns against
Burlesque in Depression-Era New York City." Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:2 (1996): 203-238.
Garber, Eric, "A Spectacle in Color: The Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age
Harlem ", in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 318-331
Gullette, Margaret Morganroth. "Male Midlife Sexuality in a Gerontocratic Economy:
The Privileged Stage of the Long Midlife in Nineteenth-Century Age-Ideology." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 5:1 (1994): 58-89.
Gustav-Wrathall, John Donald. Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex
Relations and the YMCA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998
Haag, Pamela S. "In Search of `The Real Thing': Ideologies of Love, Modern
Romance, and Women's Sexual Subjectivity in the United States, 1920-1940." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 2:4 (1992): 547-77.
Hatten, Charles. "The Crisis of Masculinity, Reified Desire, and Catherine Barkley
in A Farewell to Arms." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:1 (1993): 76-98.
Hodes, Martha. "The Sexualization of Reconstruction Politics: White Women and
Black Men in the South after the Civil War." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:3 (1993): 402-17.
Iversen, Joan Smyth. "A Debate on the American Home: The Antipolygamy Controversy,
1880-1890." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:4 (1991): 585- 602.
Jagose, Annamarie. "Way Out: The Category `Lesbian' and the Fantasy of the Utopic
Space." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:2 (1993): 264-87.
Jiller, John, Dark Wind: A True Account of Hurrican Gloria's Assault on Fire Island,
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994)
Joffe, Carole. "Portraits of Three `Physicians of Conscience': Abortion before
Legalization in the United States." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:1
(1991): 46-67.
Katz, Jonathan, Coming Out: A Documentary Play about Gay Life and Liberation in the
United States of America, (New York: Arno Press, 1975)
Katz, Jonathan, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the USA - A
Documentary, (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976; paperback, New York: Avon Discus)
Katz was one of the earliest pioneers of rigorous examintion of the LGB past.
Anthology of 168 documents with some analysis. Gives half of its space to lesbians.
Katz, Jonathan, The Gay/Lesbian Almanac, (New York: Morrow, 1983)
Kinsman, Gary William. The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities,
2nd ed., rev., (Montreal, Que., Canada ; Cheektowaga, N.Y., USA : Black Rose Books,
c1996),
On Canadian homosexuality..
Krug, Kate. "Women Ovulate, Men Spermate: Elizabeth Blackwell as a Feminist
Physiologist." Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:1 (1996): 51-72.
Lindquist, Lisa J. "Images of Alice: Gender, Deviancy, and a Love Murder in
Memphis." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:1 (1995): 30-61.
Lloyde, Robin, For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America, (New York:
Vanguard Press, 1976; paperback, New York: Ballantine)
Superficial discussion of boy prostitution through history.
Martin, Robert K., "Knights-Errant and Gothic Seducers: The representation of Male
Friendship in Mid-Ninetheenth Century America " in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha
Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 169-182
Maynard, Steven. "Through a Hole in the Lavatory Wall: Homosexual Subcultures,
Police Surveillance, and the Dialectics of Discovery, Toronto, 1890-1930." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 5:2 (1994): 207-42
McLaren, Angus. "Sex Radicalism in the Canadian Pacific Northwest,
1890-1920." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:4 (1992): 527-46.
Minton, Henry L. "Community Empowerment and the Medicalization of Homosexuality:
Constructing Sexual Identities in the 1930s." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:3 (1996): 435-58.
Mumford, Kevin J. "`Lost Manhood' Found: Male Sexual Impotence and Victorian
Culture in the United States." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:1 (1992):
33-57.
Nardi, Peter, Growing Up Before Stonewall: Life Stories Of Some Gay Men, (New
York: Routledge, 1994)
Newton, Esther. Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America, (Chicago :
University of Chicago Press, 1979, first. ed. 1972)
Examines the lives and mores of drag queens - queens who were not in the life to
demonstrate their 'postmodern sensibilities'.
Newton, Esther, Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and
Lesbian Town, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993)
O'Connor, Erin. "Pictures of Health: Medical Photography and the Emergence of
Anorexia Nervosa." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:4 (1995): 535-72.
Parent, Anthony S., Jr., and Susan Brown Wallace. "Childhood and Sexual Identity
under Slavery." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:3 (1993): 363-401.
Parsons, Gail Pat, "Equal Treatment for All: American Medical Remedies for Male
Sexual Problems, 1850-1900", Jouranl of the History of Medicine 32 (1977)
Quinn, D. Michael, Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon
example, (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1996)
Rupp, Leila J., "Imagine My Surprise: Women's Relationships in Mid
Twentieth-century American " in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George
Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 395-410
Saillant, John. "The Black Body Erotic and the Republican Body Politic,
1790-1820." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:3 (1995): 403-28.
San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project, "'She Even Chewed Tobacco': A
Pictorial Narrative of Passing Women " in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and
George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 183-194
Sangster, Joan. "Incarcerating `Bad Girls': The Regulation of Sexuality through
the Female Refugees ASct in Ontario, 1920- 1945." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 7:2 (1996): 239-75.
Seidman, Steven, Romantic Longings: Love in America 1830-1980, (New York:
Routledge, 199?)
Shand-Tucci, Douglas, Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900, (Boston: The University of
Massachusetts Press, 1995)
Simmons, Christina. "African Americans and Sexual Victorianism in the Social
Hygiene Movement, 1910-1940." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:1 (1993):
51-75.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations
between women in nineteenth century America", Signs 1 (1973), 1-29
Seminal (?!) article in women's history. Use of this article may by now have gotten
out of hand, but Smith Rosenberg's insistence that historians' search for women's agency
cannot only be a concerned with public life has proved to be an important key in
conceptualizing women's history. (As important, in its way, as the realization that the
Temperance movement was important in understanding women's participation in American
public life.)
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, "Discourses of Sexuality and Subjectivity: The New
Woman, 1870-1936 " in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 264--281
Steward, Samuel, Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the tattoo with
Gangs, Sailors and Street Corner punbks, 1950-1965, (Binghamton NY: Haworth, 1990)
Steward, Samuel, Understandingt the Male Hustler, (Binghamton NY: Haworth, 1991)
Sylvestre, Paul Francois, Bougrerie en Nouvelle-France, (Hull, Quebec: Editions
Asticou, 1983)
About. Quebec.
Ullman, Sharon R. "`The Twentieth Century Way': Female Impersonation and Sexual
Practice in Turn-of-the-Century America." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:4 (1995): 573-600.
Vicinus, Martha. "The Adolescent Boy: Fin de Siècle Femme Fatale?" Journal
of the History of Sexuality 5:1 (1994): 90-114.
Waugh, Thomas, Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from
Their Beginnings to Stonewall, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)
Wiegman, Robyn. "The Anatomy of Lynching." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 3:3 (1993): 445- 67.
J: North America: "Movement and After"
A Gay News Chronology: January 1969-May 1975, (New York: Arno Press, 1975)
562 abstracts of all NY Times articles on homosexuality during the period covered
Abbott, Sidney, "Lesbians and the Women's Movement", in Ginny Vida, Our
Right to Love, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978)
Abbott, Sidney, & Barbara Love, Sappho Was a Right-On Women, (New York:
Stein & Day, 1972)
Lesbian liberation 1969-1972
Adair, Nancy & Casey Adair, Word is Out: Stories of Some Of Our Lives, (San
Francisco: New Glide, 1978)
Adam, Barry D., "A Social History of Gay Politics", in Martin Levine, ed., Gay
Men, (New York: Harper & Row, 1979)
Adam, Barry D., "Age, Structure and Sexuality", Journal of Homosexuality 11:3/4 (1985)
Adam, Barry D., "Sexual Outlaws", Canadian Journal of Political and Social
Theory 4 (1980)
Adam, Barry D., "Structural Foundations of the Gay World", Comparative
Studies in Society and History 27:4 (1985)
Adam, Barry D., "Where Gay People Come From", Christopher Street 64
(1982)
Altman, Denis, "The State, Repression and Sexuality", Gay Left 6
(Summer, 1978)
Altman, Denis, "What Changed in the Seventies", in Gay Left Collective, eds., Homsexuality: Power and Politics, (London: Allison & Busby, 1978)
Altman, Denis, Homosexual Oppression and Liberation, (New York: Outerbridge
& Dienstfrey, 1971: recently reissued)
Classic gay lib. philosophy.
Altman, Denis, Coming out in the Seventies, (Sydney: Wild and Wolley, 1979)
Altman, Denis, The Homosexualization of America, (New York: St. Martin's Press,
1982)
Gay life in the 1970s
Amsel, Amsel: A Walk on the
Wild Side (The Advocate, Sept 15, 1987), [At CMU]
A discussion of the importance of the "Stonewall Myth"
Barton, Crawford, Days of Hope : 70's Gay San Francisco, (London: Gay Mens
Press, 1994)
Bell Arthur, Dancing the Gay Lib Blues: A Year in the Homosexual Liberation Movement,
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971)
Looks at Gay Activists Alliance in New York in particular.
Bell Arthur, Kings Don't Mean a Thing: The John Knight Murder Case, (New York:
William Morrow, 1978)
Looks at murder case of 1975
Blasius, Mark and Shane Phelan, eds, We are everywhere : a historical sourcebook
of gay and lesbian politics, (New York : Routledge, 1997)
Massive compilation of documents. In fact, its is too big for its paperback covers.
Blincoe, Deborah, and John Forrest, Prejudice and Pride: Lesbian and Gay Traditions
in America, (New York: New York Folklore Society, 199?)
Brown, Howard, Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America
Today, (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976)
Bryant, Anita, The Anita Bryant Story, (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell,
1977)
Bryant's version of her anti-gay crusade of 1977.
Bunch, Charlotte, Passionate Politics, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987)
Articles by leading early lesbian feminist
Burston, Paul and Colin Richardson, A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular
Culture, (New York: Routledge, 1995)
Cain, Roy. "Disclosure and Secrecy among Gay Men in the United States and Canada:
A Shift in Views." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:1 (1991): 25- 45.
Cruikshank, Margaret, The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement, Revolutionary
Thought/Radical Movements, (London: Routledge Chapman Hall, 1992)
Well intentioned, but not thrilling...
D'Emilio, John & Estelle Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in
America, (New York: Harper & Row, 1988)
D'Emilio, John, "Dreams deferred: the early American homophile movement", in
Ed Jackson & Stan Persky, eds., Flaunting It: A Decade of Gay Journalism from The
Body Politic, (Vancouver: New Star Books; Toronto: Pink Triangle Press, 1982), pp.
127-137
Account of the founding of the Mattachine Society by the communist Harry Hay in 1950.
Abbreviated verison of the following three articles: "Radical Beginnings, 1950-1951, TBP 48 (Nov, 1978), pp. 19-24, "Public Actions Private Fears", TBP 49 (Dec,
1978-Jan, 1979) pp. 24-29, "Dreams Deferred", TBP 50 (Feb, 1979), pp.
22-27
D'Emilio, John, "Gay Politics and Community in San Francisco Since World War
II", in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From
History, New York: NAL, 1989), 456-476
D'Emilio, John, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communites, (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1983)
Most complete account of US homophile movement in 1950s and 1960s. Based on D'Emilio's
dissertation.
D'Emilio, John. "The Stuff of History: First-Person Accounts of Gay Male
Lives." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:2 (1992): 314-19 [REVIEW ESSAY].
Duberman, Martin Baumi, "The Therapy of C.M. Otis", Christopher Street (Nov, 1977), pp. 33-37
Discusses uses of sources to uncover history of homosexuality.
Duberman, Martin, About Time : Exploring the Gay Past, rev. ed. (New York:
Penguin USA/Meridian, 1991)
Duberman, Martin, Stonewall, (New York: 1993)
Novelistic approach based on the lives of six participants.
Duggan, Lisa and Nan D. Hunter, Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and American Political
Culture, (New York: Routledge, 199?)
Einstadter, Werner J., and Karen P. Sinclair. "Lives on the Boundary: Armistead
Maupin's Complete Tales of the City." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:4
(1991): 682-89. [REVIEW ESSAY].
Faderman, Lilian, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in
Twentieth-Century America, (New York: Columbia UP, 199?)
Faderman, Lillian. "The Return of Butch and Femme: A Phenomenon in Lesbian
Sexuality of the 1980s and 1990s." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:4
(1992): 578-96.
Fellows, Will, ed. Farm Boys : Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest, (Madison
WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996)
[from a post on Dignity Maillist] The first 60 or so pages of the book include a preface,
acknowledgements, "How these stories were discovered," a farming glossary for
those not from the rural midwest, and an introduction. The rest of the book is divided
into 3 parts: "Coming of age before the mid-1960s," "Coming of age between
the mid-1960s and mid-1970s" and "Coming of age between the mid-1970s and
mid-1980s." The first section contains 11 narratives, the second has 13, and the last
has 13. The narratives are presented in chronological order of the birth of the man it is
about, ranging from Cornelius Utz (1909) to Todd Ruhter (1967). About half of the men used
pseudonyms, and all were of European (mostly German Catholic) descent. Each section
includes an introduction as well, and there is an afterword at the end of the book.
Gay Freedom 1970, (New York: Queens Quaterly Publishing Co., 1970)
A 32 page booklet of photos of the first Gay Pride/Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally
in 1970 "prepared by the editors of QQ Magazine. Incidentally the
"lambda" sign was on many of the t-shirts worn in 1970.
Gearhart, Sally & Bill Johnson, "The Gay Movement in the Church", in
Sally Gearhart & Bill Johnson, eds., Loving Women/Loving Men: Gay Liberation and
the Church, (San Francisco: Glide Foundation, 1974)
Gerassi, John, The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice and Folly in an American City,
(New York: Macmillan, 1966; paperback, New York: Collier)
Homosexual scandal and witchhunt in Idaho in 1950s
Gibson, E. Lawrence, Get Off My Ship: Ensign Berg vs, the U.S. Navy, (New York:
Arno Press, 1978)
Court case in US Navy 1975-1976.
Gluckman, Amy and Betsy Reed, eds., Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community and
Lesbian and Gay Life, (New York: Routledge, 1997)
[From blurb] Homo Economics is the first honest account of the tense relationship between
gay people and the economy. This groundbreaking collection brings together a variety of
voices from the worlds of journalism, activism, academia, the arts, and public policy to
address issues including the recent economic history of the gay community, the community's
response to its changing economic circumstances, and the risks inherent in a narrow
definition of liberation. For the first time in U.S. history, gay men and lesbians live
open lives. From nightclubs in gay city districts to political rallies and Caribbean
cruises, this new community continues to reveal itself throughout the nation. However,
with this growth, there are also signs of fracturing as economic forces key to its
development are now threatening its future. Homo Economics illustrates the ways in which
modern capitalism has eroded the rigid sexual division of labor that deterred gay couples
from setting up households in the past. But the book also shows how this economic system
has created divisions within the gay community, channelled lesbians and gay men into
particular professions, and discriminated against them in the workplace. After a century
of neglect, we have now reached the point where suddenly gay consumers are being courted
by corporations, gay money is fueling political campaigns, and gay and lesbian
neighborhoods are expanding. The essays in Homo Economics warn us however, that contrary
to popular stereotypes, only a narrow segment of the gay community is enjoying economic
success and the majority of gay men and lesbians actually earn less than straight men and
women. Homo Economics brings together contributors including Jeffrey Escoffier, Donna
Minkowitz, Tony Kushner, Julie Matthaei, Dorothy Allison, Sean Strub, Dan Baker and Lee
Badgett among others, to address the views of the gay community towards capitalism.
Goodwin, Joseph P., More Man Than You'll Ever Be : Gay Folklore and Acculturation in
Middle America, (Bloomington IN: Indiana Univ Press, 1989)
Government versus Homosexuals, (New York: Arno Press, 1975)
3 government reports on homosexuals: 1921 US Senate, "Alleged immoral conditions at
Newport (R.I.) Naval Training Station; 1950 US Senate, "Employment of Homosexuals and
other perverts in government"; 1966 Florida Legislature, "Homosexuality and
citizenship in Florida".
Grier, Barbara & Coletta Reid, eds., Lesbian Lives: Biographies of Women from
The Ladder, (Oakland, Ca.: Diana Press, 1976)
Sketches of over 60 women who may have been lesbians.
Grier, Barbara & Coletta Reid, eds., The Lavender Herring, (Baltimore: Diana
Press, 1976)
Journalism from the early lesbian magazine, The Ladder
Gross, Larry, and James D. Woods, Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in
American Society, Politics and the Media, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997) [forthcoming]
Gunnison, Foster, "The Homophile Movement in America", in Ralph W. Weltge,
ed., The Same Sex: An Appraisal of Homosexuality, (Philadelphia: United Church
Press, 1969)
Halperin, David, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography, (Oxford: 1995)
Foucault said, in 1975, "My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation."
Hamilton, Wallace, Christopher and Gay: A Partisans View of the Greenwich Village
Scene, (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973)
Gay life in Greenwich Village.
Harper, Phillip Brian, Are We Not Men? : Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of
African-American Identity, (New York: Oxford Univ Press, 1996)
Hart, Lynda. "'Til Death Do Us Part: Impossible Spaces in Thelma and Louise." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:3 (1994): 430-46.
Hawkeswood, William G., One of the Children : Gay Black Men in Harlem,
(Berkeley: Univ of California/Princeton Press, 1997)
Herdt, Gilbert, ed., Gay Culture in America: Essays from the Field, (Boston :
Beacon Press, c1992)
contains some historical accounts.
Herman, Didi, Rights of Passage: Struggles for Lesbian and Gay Equality,
(TorontoL UNiversity of Toronto Press, 1994)
Herzog, Mark, The Lavender Vote : Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American
Electoral Politics, (New York: New York Univ Press, 1996)
Hogeland, Lisa Maria. "Sexuality in the Consciousness-Raising Novel of the
1970s." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:4 (1995): 601-32.
Humphreys, Laud, "Organizing for Change", in Out of the Closets: The
Sociology of Homosexual Liberation, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972;
papberback, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Spectrum)
Humphreys, Laud, Out of the Closets, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall,
1972)
Sociology of early days of gay lib by a socioligsit clergyman.
Jackson, Ed, & Stan Persky, eds., Flaunting It: A Decade of Gay Journalism from
The Body Politic, (Vancouver: New Star Books; Toronto: Pink Triangle Press, 1982)
Covers the years when this Canadian Journal followed the emergence of the Gay movement.
Kantrowitz, Arnie, Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay, (New York: William Morrow,
1977; paperback, New York: Pocketbooks)
Growing up gay and Jewish. Involvement in gay lib.
Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of
Gold : The History of a Lesbian Community, (London: Routledge Chapman Hall, 1993)
Kennedy, Joe, Summer of `77: Last Hurrah of the Gay Activists Alliance, (New
York: PPC Books, 1994)
Account by an activist of the GAA/New Yor actions against Aniat Bryant's anti-gay crusade.
After 1977 and until AIDS, Lesbian and Gay activism went into a period of dormancy.
Legg, W. Door, Homophile Studies, (?: GLB Publishers, 199?)
Look at the history of the ONE institute from 1953.
Levay, Simon and Elisabeth Nonas, City of Friends : A Portrait of the Gay and
Lesbian Community in America, (Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 1996)
Leong, Russell, ed. .Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian
Experience, (New York: Routledge, 1996)
Leyland, Winston, ed, Gay Roots : 20 Years of Gay Sunshine : An Anthology of Gay
History, Sex, Politics, and Culture, Vol 1. (?: Gay Sunshine Press, 1991), Vol 2, (?:
Gay Sunshine Press, 1993)
Licata, Salvatore J., "Gay Power: A History of the American Gay Movement",
(Ph.D dissertation, History, University of Southern California, 1978)
Licata, Salvatore J., "The Emerging Gay Presence", The Advocate, 245
(Jul 12, 1978) pp. 7-8,43, 246 (July 26, 1978), pp. 7-8, 247 (August 9, 1978), pp. 17-18,
20
Optimistic account of 20th century gay movements.
Licata, Salvatore J., "The Homsexual Rights Movement in the United States: A
Traditionally Overlooked Area of American History", Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 161-190
Marcus, Eric, Making History : The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights :
1945-1990 : An Oral History, (New York: Harper, 1993)
Marrotta, Toby, The Politics of Homosexuality, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981)
Integrated and more distant narrative of early gay lib. in New York
Martin, Del & Phyllis Lyon, Lesbian/Women, (San Francisco: Glide
Publications, 1972)
by the co-founders of the Daughters of Bilitis. 1950s homophile movement.
Masters, Robert E.L., The Homosexual Revolution: A Challenging Expose of the Social
and Political Directions of a Minority Group, (New York: Julian Press, 1962;
paperback, New York: Belmont)
Looks at Mattachine, DOB, and political demands.
McDarrah, Fred, and Tim McGarrah, Gay Pride: Photgraphs from Stonewall to Today,
(?: A Cappella Books, 1994)
Melson, James Kenneth, The Golden Boy, (Binghamton NY: Haworth, 1992)
Autobiography of a rich "A" list gay man about his life in the 1970s. A sort of
factual counterpart to Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance.
Michel, Sonya. "Danger on the Home Front: Motherhood, Sexuality, and Disabled
Veterans in American Postwar Films." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:1
(1992): 109-28.
Miller, Merle, On Being Different: What It Means to BE a Homosexual, (New York:
Random House, 1971; paperback, New York: Popular Library)
Murphy, John, Homosexual Liberation: A Personal View, (New York: Preager, 1971)
By an early GLF activist.
Murray, Stephen O., American Gay, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
Collected essays by a curmudgeonly sociologist.
Myron, Nancy & Charlotte Bunch, Women Remembered: A Collection of Biographies
form the "Furies", (Baltimore: Diana Press, 1974)
Sketches of famous lesbians.
National Lesbian and Gay Survey, Proust, Cole Porter, Michelangelo, Marc Almond and
Me: Writings by Gay Men on their Lives and Lifestyles, (New York: Routledge, 1993)
Nicholl, Charles, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, (Chicago:
1995)
Olsen, Jack, The Man with the Candy: The Story of the Houston Mass Murders, (New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1974: paperback, New York: Pocketbooks)
Murders of 27 boys between 1971-1973
Onge, Jack, The Gay Liberation Movement, (Chicago: Alliance Press, 1971)
Looks at 1950's plus 1969-71 in NY, SF and Chicago.
Oppenheimer, Mark. "`The Inherent Worth and Dignity': Gay Unitarians and the Birth
of Sexual Tolerance in Liberal Religion." Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:1 (1996): 73-101.
Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America Since Stonewall, (New
York: Scribner, 1995)
Pettiway, Leon E., Honey, Honey, Miss Thang : Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets<
(Philadelphia: Temple Univ Press, 1966)
Pronger, Brian, The Arena of Masculinity : Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of
Sex, (New York: St. Martins Press, 1991)
Reid, John (pseud.), The Best Little Boy in the World, (New York: Putnam's Sons,
1973)
Successful businessman complains about society's attitude.
Ridinger, Robert B. Marks, The gay and lesbian movement : references and resources,
(New York : G.K. Hall: London : Prentice Hall International, [1996]).
Roscoe, Will, ed. Radically Gay: Gay Liberation In The Words Of Its Founder,
(Boston: Beacon, 1996)
The first collection of the work of Harry Hay: interviews, speeches, papers. Hay's role is
now subject to some serious myth-making.
Rule, Jane, Lesbian Images, (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975)
Looks at writings of famous lesbians.
Russo, Vito, The Celluloid Closet, (New York: 198 )
Sadownick, Douglas, Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay
Men Postwar to Present, (San Francisco:: HarperSan Francisco, 1996)
Sagarin, Edward, "Historical Precedents", and "The Mattachine Society
and its Predecessors", in Structure and Ideology in an Association of Deviants,
(New York: Arno Press, 1975: reprint of Ph.D dissertation, Sociology and Anthropology, New
York University, 1966)
Sears, James T., ed. Growing up Gay in the South: Race, Gender, and Journeys of
the Spirit, (New York: Haworth Press, 1991)
Seidman, Steven, Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary
America, (New York: Routledge, 199?)
Sherman, Phillip, Uncommon Heroes, (?: Fletcher Press, 1994)
Lives of lesbian and gay Americans.
Shilts, Randy, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military, (New
York: 1993)
Streitmatter, Rodger, Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in
America, (New York: Faber & Faber, 1996)
Stryker, Susan and Jim Van Buskirk, Gay by the Bay: a history of queer culture in
the San Francisco Bay Area¸ (San Francisco, : Chronicle Books, 1996)
Suarez, Juan Antonio, Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass
Culture, and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema, (Bloomington IN: Indiana
Univ Press, 1996)
Sylvestre, Paul Francois, Les homosexuels s'organisent, (Ottawa: Editions
Homeureux, 1979)
Growth of gay movement in Canada
Teal, Donn, The Gay Militants, (New York, Stein & Day, 1971)
Early documentary history of Stonewall Rebellion. Many original sources used to convey
what happened.
Thompson, Mark, The Long Road to Gay Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and
Lesbian Movement, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994)
Large scale illustrated history draen from the files of the Advocate, the leading gay
paper since 1967.
Timmons, Stuart, The Trouble With Harry Hay, Boston, Alyson Publications, 1990)
Tobin, Kay & Randy Wicker, The Gay Crusaders, (New York; Paperback Library,
1972)
Sketches of leaders of US gay rights movement: inc. Troy Perry, Frank Kameny, Barbara
Gittings, Jack Baker, and Jim Owles.
Toledo, Rebeca, Armed and Dangerous: Why the Pentagon Declared War on Lesbians and
Gays. (?: World View Forum, 1994)
Tripp, Clarence A., The Homosexual Matrix, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975:
paperback, New York: Signet)
Tyler, Parker, Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies, (New York:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972; paperback, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Anchor)
Van Leer, David, The queening of America : gay culture in straight society, (New
York : Routledge, 1995)
Vida, Ginny, Our Right to Love, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978)
Covers Lesbian issues in the 1970s
Winter, Alan D., The Gay Press: A History of the Gay Community and Its Publications,
(Austin, Tex.: self-published, typewritten, 1977)
Young, Ian, The Stonewall Experiment: A Gay Psychohistory, (London: Cassell,
1995)
A "psychohistory: of the gay movement.
Zeeland, Steven, Barrack Buddies and Soldier Lovers, (Binghamton NY: Haworth,
1993)
One of the major issues of post-gay liberation gay history concerns homosexual sex as
practised by men who idenitify as "straight". Zeeland's books, which contain
long interviews, are a source for one of the most important arenas of such sexual
activity, the military.
Zeeland, Steven, Sailors and Sexual Identity: Crossing the Line Between
"Straight" and "Gay" in the US Navy, (Binghamton NY: Haworth,
1993)
Zeeland, Steven, The Masculine Marine: Homoeroticism in the US Marine Corps,
(Binghamton NY: Haworth, 1996)
K: Australia and New Zealand
Davies, Susanne. "Sexuality, Performance, and Spectatorship in Law: The
Case of Gordon Lawrence, Melbourne, 1888." Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:3 (1997): 389-408.
Lake, Marilyn. "The Desire for a Yank: Sexual Relations between Australian Women
and American Servicemen during World War II." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:4 (1992): 621-33 [RESEARCH ESSAY].
VII: Works on History of Homosexuality after AIDS
All the books below must be considered provisional. One of the side effects of the
epidemic was the funding of huge studies of gay men (although, typically, far less was
spent on women). These studies tracked gay men throughout the years of the epidemic with
yearly, or more frequent, extended interviews. These interviews were factual, narrative,
and involved the repeated use of standatd physical and psychological tests. The data
collected represents a huge, as yet scarcely used, resource.
A: General
Altman, Denis, AIDS in the Mind of America, (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday,
1986)
Bech, Henning, When Men Meet : Homosexualiity and Modernity, trans. Teresa
Mesquit and Tim Davies, (Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 1997)
Blasius, Mark, Gay and Lesbian Politics : Sexuality and the Emergence of a New Ethic,
(Philadelphia: Temple Univ Press, 1995)
Bransford, Stephen, Gay Politics Vs. Colorado and America : The Inside Story of
Amendment 2, (?: Sardis Press, 1994)
Right-wing view of events surrounding the attempt to deprive LGB people in Colorado of
legal protections.
Crimp, Douglas and Adam Rolston, AIDS Demo Graphics, (Seattle: Bay Press,
1990)
Ostensibly a discussion of ACT UP's graphics, in reality a short history of ACT UP/NY
demonstrations 1987-1990. Includes a chapter (pp 130-141) on the 1989 "Stop the
Church" demonstration directed against Cardinal O'Connor ("Know Your
Scumbags").
Cummings, Katherine. "Of Purebreds and Hybrids: The Politics of Teaching AIDS in
the United States." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:1 (1991): 68-94.
Escoffier, Jeffrey, American Homo : Essays on Sexuality, Cultural Politics, and
Capitalism, (Berleley: Univ of California/Princeton Press, Publication date: June
1998)
Feinberg, David B., Queer and Loathing : Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone,
(New York: Penguin, 1995)
Gamson, Joshua, "Rubber Wars: Struggles over the Condom in the United
States." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:2 (1990): 262-82.
Gross, Larry, Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing,
(Minneapolis: Univ of Minnesota Press, 1993)
Herman, Didi, The Antigay Agenda : Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right,
(Chicago: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1997)
Jones, James W. "Discourses on and of AIDS in West Germany, 1986-1990." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 2:3 (1992): 439-68.
Kayal, Philip M., Bearing Witness; Gay Men's Health Crisis and the Politics of AIDS,
(Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1993)
Kettelhack, Guy, Dancing Around the Volcano : Freeing Our Erotic Lives : Decoding
the Enigma of Gay Men and Sex, (New York: Crown, 1996)
Lewis, Lynette A. and Michael W. Ross, A Select Body : The Gay Dance Party
Subculture and the Hiv-AIDS Pandemic, (London: Cassell Academic, 1996)
Odets, Walt, In the Shadow of the Epidemic : Being Hiv-Negative in the Age of AIDS,
(Durham NC: Duke Univ Press, 1995)
Phelan, Shane, ed., Playing With Fire : Queer Politics, Queer Theories, (New
York: Routledge, 1997)
Pressman, Jack D. "AIDS and the Burdens of Historians." Journal of the
History of Sexuality 1:1 (1990): 137-43. [REVIEW ESSAY].
Shilts, Randy, And The Band Played On: People Politics and the AIDS Epidemic,
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987)
Based on interviews with most important players in unfolding of first few years of
AIDS.
Schulman, Sarah, My American History: Lesbian And Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush
Years,(New York: Routledge, 1994)
Collected columns from a New York-based lesbian writer.
Signorile, Michaelangelo., Queer In America, (New York: Random House, 1993)
Wilson, Carter, Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan,
(New York: Columbia Univ Press, 1996)
B: Anti-Gay: Criticism of Gay Male Culture by Gay Writers
Bawer, Bruce, ed. Beyond Queer : Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy, (New York:
The Free Press, 1996)
Bawer, Andrew Sullivan and co.
Harris, Daniel, The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, (New York: Hyperion, 1997)
A defender of the traditions of [American] gay male culture.
Kramer, Larry, Faggots, (New York: Random House, 1978)
One of the few novels in this bibliography, but it is important. Kramer attacked the gay
bath-house culture, even as he continued -- unsucessfully -- to take part in it. (See
Lawrence Mass' comments on Kramer in his intro. to James Melson, The Golden Boy.)
Rotello, Gabriel, Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men, (New York:
1997)
Ostensibly a book about AIDS epidemiology (the first part of the book), but in the later
part an all out attack on gay male sexual culture.
Signorile, Michaelangelo., Life Outside, (New York: HarperCollins 1997)
Fashionable mid-1990's attack on gay male culture. Claims to be part of a
"self-critique".
Simpson, Mark, ed. Anti-Gay, (London: Freedom Editions, 1996)
A collection of essays, some worthwhile (Peter Tatchell, Lisa Powers), but others showing
deep disdain for gay male and lesbian cultures. Simpson's opening essay is among the most
class-ridden self-satisfied pieces of writing ever produced by a homosexual writer.
Tatchell's more idealistic essay looks forward to a time when sexual identity will not be
an issue, as all forms of consensual sexual desire will be acknowledged. He sees this as
the goal of the LGB movement. Tatchell is indulging in a pipe dream, but more, it is not
clear that such "normalization" is any more desirable than
"assimilation" is for Jews. Difference is not only a matter of individual
differance, but group difference. It is at least concievable that outside status,
along with the double vision it gives, is desirable.
VIII: Homosexual Individuals - After 1750
Ackerley, Joe R., My Father and Myself, (New York: Coward-McCann,
1968)
Discusses inter alia homosexuality in inter-war London. It is hard to say if Ackerly was
homosexual, since his major emotional tie was to his dog Queenie.
Acosta, Mercedes de, Here Lies The Heart, (New York: Reynal and Company, 1960)
Austen, Roger, Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard,
(Massachusetts: 1995 [1991])
Bartlett, Neil, Who Was That Man?, London, Penguin, 1993)
Benkovitz, Miriam J., Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo, (New York: G. P. Putnams
Sons, 1977)
Bogarde, Dirk, An Orderly Man, (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1984)
Borer, Alain, Rimbaud In Abyssinia, (New York: William Morrow, 1993)
Bosworth, Patricia, Montgomery Clift, (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1978)
Bowen, Catherine, Francis Bacon, The Temper of A Man, (New York: Little Brown,
1963)
Boyd, Malcolm, Gay Priest, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986)
Boyd, Malcolm, Take Off the Masks, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978)
Gay Episcoplian priest.
Branderth, Gyles, John Gielgud: A Celebration, (Boston, Little Brown, 1984)
Braybrooke (Editor), Neville, The Ackerley Letters, (New York: Harcourt Brace,
1975)
Brian, Denis, Tallulah, Darling, (New York: Macmillan, 1972)
Britten, Vera, Radclyffe Hall, A Case of Obscenity?, (London: Femina, 1968)
Carpenter, Humphrey, Benjamin Britten, A Biography, (New York: Scribner's, 1993)
Chalon, Jean, Portrait of A Seductress: The World of Natalie Barney, (New York:
Crown, 1976)
Cocteau, Jean, Opium: Diary Of A Cure, (New York: Grove Press, 1980)
Crisp, Quentin, The Naked Civil Servant, (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and
Winston, 1968; paperback, New York: Signet)
Famous autobiography by one of the "stately homos" of England. Crisp's later
books do not measure up.
Croft-Cooke, Rupert, Bosie: The Story of Lord Alfred Douglas, His Friends, and
Enemies, (London: W.H. Allen, 1963)
Sympathetic to Douglas. Hard to say why.
Croft-Cooke, Rupert, The Unrecorded Life of Oscar Wilde, (New York: David McKay,
1972)
Davie, Michael, The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
1976)
Deford, Frank, Big Bill Tiden: The Triumph and Tragedy, (New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1975)
Account of a homosexual tennis player, eventually charged with sex with young boys.
De-La-Noy, Michael, (ed.) The Journals of Denton Welch, (New York: E. P. Dutton,
1984)
Driberg, Tom, Ruling Passions: The Autobiography of Tom Driberg, (London:
Jonathan Cape, 1977)
Posthumous autobiography of a gay Labour MP.
Duberman, Martin, Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey, (New York: 199?)
Duberman's history as a victim of psychotherapy.
Duberman, Martin, Midlife Queer, (New York: 1996)
New York gay life 1971-1981. Duberman's autobiographies may be useful to later historians
of the period. He functions as a participant-observer with a good idea of what was going
on. Some find his books too self-indulgent, but a real problem is that he does not
footnote his factual content. That may be the norm for autobiographies, but he is, after
all, a historian!
Dunaway, David King, Huxley In Hollywood, (New York: Harper and Row, 1989)
Dunbar, Janet, J. M. Barrie, The Man Behind the Image, Boston, Houghton Mifflin,
1970)
Ellerman, Richard, Oscar Wilde, (1987)
Farnan, Dorothy J., Auden in Love, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984)
Field, Andrew, Djuna, (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1983)
Fitch, Noel Riley, Anais: The Erotic Life of Anais Nin, Boston, Little Brown,
1993)
Forster, Margaret, Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life, (New York: Doubleday,
1993)
Fryer, Jonathan, Isherwood: A Biography, (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978)
Furbank, P. N., E. M. Forster: A Life, London, Secker and Warburg, 1978)
Gaines, Steven, Simply Halston, (New York: Jove, 1992)
Goodman, Paul, "Memoirs of an Ancient Activist", in Joseph A. McCaffery, ed., The Homosexual Dialectic, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972)
Grosskurth, Phyllis, Memoirs of John Addington Symonds, (New York: Random House,
1984)
Halperin, David, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography, (Oxford: 1995)
Foucault said, in 1975, "My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation."
Hanson, L. & E., Verlaine: Fool of God, (New York: Random House, 1957)
Hayman, Ronald, Thomas Mann, (New York: Scribner, 1995)
Hebblethwaite, Peter, Paul VI, (New York: 199?)
Extensive and well-received biography of Pope Paul VI. Gives a good insight into the
history of Catholicism in the early and mid 20th century. Discusses, in somewhat subdued
terms, Paul's homosexuality.
Higham, Charles and Moseley, Roy, Cary Grant, The Lonely Heart,(New York: Avon,
1989)
Grant had a long affair with Randolph Scott. ALl his biographer's overlook it.
Higham, Charles, Howard Hughes: The Secret Life, (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons,
1993)
Hippler, Mike, Matlovich, the Good Soldier, (Boston: Alyson, 1989)
Hockney, David, That's The Way I See It, (New York: Chronicle Books, 1993)
Hodges, Andrew, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence, (New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1984)
Genuinely tragic account of Turing, a mathematician who aided in the British decoding of
the Nazi's enigma coding machines, and thus enabled the British to know what the Germans
were doing throughout the War. Turing also laid the intellectual foundations for modern
computing. But he was gay, and his report of a burgalry by a youth he brought home, lead
to his enforced hormone 'treatment' (or he faced prison). In 1954 he apparently committed
suicide by taking cyanide.
Holiday, Billie, Lady Sings The Blues, (New York: Viking Penguin, )
Holroyd, Michael, Lytton Strachey: The New Biography, (New York: Farrar, Straus
& Giroux, 1995, rev. of 1968 edition),
When Strachey, a conscientious objector, was asked what he would do if a German attempted
to rape his mother, he came up with the best possible answer - he would, he said,
'interpose my body'. This was the man who brought bitchiness to biography.
Hurston, Zora Neale, Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography, (New York: Harper,
1992)
Hyde, H. Montgomery, Oscar Wilde: A Biography, (New York: Farrar, Straus,
Giroux, 1975; paperback, London: Magnum)
Superceded by Ellerman. q.v.
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, (New York: University
Books, 1956; paperback, New York: Dover)
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Trial of Sir Roger Casement, (London: William Hodge,
1964)
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, (London: William Hodge, 1948)
Inglis, Brian, Roger Casement, (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973)
Isherwood, Christopher, Christopher and His Kind, (London: Eyre Methuen,
1977; pb, Magnum, 1978)
Autobiography - vivid account of gay life in 1930s Berlin and the Mediterranean.
Jarman, Derek, At Your Own Risk, Woodstock, The Overlook Press, 1993)
Johnson, W. S., W. H. Auden, (New York: Continuum, 1990)
Kantrowitz, Arnie, Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay, (New York: Morrow, 1977:
reissued since)
Kantrowitz biography, explicitly compared by Kantrowitz to James Kenneth Melson's The
Golden Boy [q.v.], is an account of his life as a doubly invisible outsider - as a Jew
and a gay man. Kantrowitz biograohy was an important early gay lib bio, especially as his
solution to the "problem" of being gay was to engage in gay activism (especially
the gay Activists Alliance). The question poses itself - whose was the central gay
experience of the 1970s, Melson's or Kantrowitz'?
Kopay, David and Perry D. Young, The David Kopay Story: An Extraordinary
Self-Revelation, (New York: Arbor House, 1977; paperback, New York: Bantam)
Coming out by a professional football player.
Kurth, Peter, American Cassandra: The Life Of Dorothy Thompson, Boston, LIttle,
Brown and, 1990)
Lahr, John, Prick Up Your Ears, (New York: Limelight, 1986)
Straight writer Lahr's fascination with gay playwright Joe Orton, beaten to death by his
lover, forms the basis of this account of Orton, and necessarily London's gay scene in the
1960s. Islington was never the same.
Lambert, Gavin, On Cukor, (New York: Putnam, 1972)
Lawrence, T. E., Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, (New York: Doubleday, 1935)
The dedicatory poem is to a lost Arab boyfriend. It is questionable how many readers
ever finish the book itself.
Lieb, Sandra, Mother Of The Blues; A Life of Ma Rainey, Boston, Univ, 1981)
Marr, David, Patrick White: A Life, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992)
Mass, Lawrence, Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite : Being Gay and Jewish in America,
(New York: Cassell Academic, 1995)
Maugham, Robin, Escape from the Shadows, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973)
McCann, Graham, Rebel Males: Clift, Brando, and Dean, Trenton, Rutgers
University, 1993)
McCorvey, Norma, I Am Roe, (New York: HarperCollins, 1994)
McGilligan, Patrick, Cukor: A Double Life, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991)
Melson, James Kenneth, The Golden Boy, (New York: Haworth, 1992)
Melson was a Catholic Iowa boy who arrived in NY in 1975 and took part in the A-Gay life
of the period. He died from AIDS in 1992. Before he died he resolved to write an account
of his own life. The result is a factual counterpart to Andrew Holleran's Dancer From
the Dance. This edition has an interesting prologue by Lawrence Mass (explaining 'gay
narcissism'), and a self-indulgent epilogue by Arnie Kantrowitz (who assures us that
despite being 'ugly', he had just as much sex as Melson).
Merrill, James, A Different Person, (New York: Knopf, 1993)
Merrill, a very rich, very talented poet, helped out a whole generation of gay writers.
Miller, James, The Passion of Michel Foucault, (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1992)
Not as bad as its reviews suggest. It does enagage in scandal-mongering about Foucault's
participation in San Francisco bathhouses. See Eribon, q.v., for a more standard account,
or Halperin [q.v.] for sheer laudation.
Moggridge, D. E., Maynard Keynes, London, Routledge, 1992)
Nin, Anais, Incest: From A Journal of Love, (New York: HBJ, 1992)
O'Brien, Sharon, Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice, (New York: , 1993)
O'Hara, Scott,Autopornography : A Life in the Lust Lane, (Binghamton NY:
Haworth, May 1997
O'Hara is (or at least was) a leading sex radical.
Parker, Peter, Ackerley, (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989)
Payn (Editors), Sheridan Morley and Graham, The Noel Coward Diaries, Boston,
Little, Brown, 1982)
Perry, Troy and Charles Lucas, The Lord is My Shepherd and He Knows I'm Gay,
(Los Angeles: Nash Publishing Co., 1972; paperback, New York: Bantam)
How the Metropolitan Vommunity Church was founded, by the founder.
Read, B.L., The Lives of Roger Casement, (New Haven: Yale UP, 1976)
Reid, Doris Fielding, Edith Hamilton: An Intimate Portrait, (New York: W. W.,
1967)
Reynolds, David, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, (Knopf: 1995)
Richardson, Joanna, Colette, (New York: Franklin Watts, 1984)
Rivers, Larry, Autobiography, (New York: Harper Collins, 1992)
Rose, Phyllis, Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker In Her Time, (New York: Vintage,
1992)
Russo, William, "Hart Crane", In Touch 41 (May-June 1979), pp. 69-72,
75
Russo, William, "Horatio", In Touch 38 (Nov-Dec 1978), pp. 30-31,
On Horatio Alger.
Russo, William, "Lawrence of Arabia", In Touch 44 (Nov-Dec 1979), pp.
61-62, 64
Schonberg, Harold, Horowitz: A Musical Biography, (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1992)
Schwartz, Barth, Pasolini Requiem, (New York: Pantheon, 1992)
Servadio, Gaia, Luchino Visconti: A Biography, (New York: Franklin Watts, 1983)
Shilts, Randy, The Mayor of Castro Street, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 198
)
About Harvey Milk.
Simon, Randy, Edward D. Wood Jr., A Man And His Films, Los Angeles, Wood Film,
1981)
Sinclair, Andrew, Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times, (New York: Crown
Publishers,, 1993)
Smith, A.E., "Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: His Life and Loves Re-examined", ONE
Institute Quarterly 12 (1961), pp. 20-36
Argues Tch. was well-adjusted and his life was not tragedy.
Souhami, Diana, Gertrude and Alice, (New York: Pandora, 1992)
Spoto, Donald, Olivier, (New York: Harper Collins, 1992)
Stuart, Otis, Perpetual Motion: The Private Lives of Rudolf Nureyev, (New York:
Simon and, 1995)
Swicegood, Thomas L.P., Our God Too, (Pyramid Books, 1974)
Troy Perry and the founding of the Metropolitan Community Church.}
Timmons, Stuart, The Trouble With Harry Hay, Boston, Alyson Publications, 1990)
Vickers, Hugo, Loving Garbo, (New York: Random House, 1994)
Weatherby, W. J., Artist on Fire, (New York: Donald I Fine Inc, 1992)
Wells, Anna. M., Miss Marks and Miss Wolley, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978)
Lesbian faculty at Mount Holyoke College.)
White White: on Jean Genet: Once a
Sodomite: Twice a Philosopher, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review 3:1 (Winter 1996)
[At Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review]
Williams, Tennesee, Memoirs, (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975: paperback, New
York: Bantam)
Ziegler, Philip, Mountbatten, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985)
IX: Anthropological and Sociological Works
No Attempt to be comprehensive here.
A: General
Adam, Barry D., "The Construction of a Sociological Homosexual in
Canadian Textbooks", Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 23:3 (1986)
Bell, Alan P. & Martin S. Weinberg, Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among
Men and Women, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978)
Boissevain, J. & J.C. Mitchell, eds., Network Analysis: Studies in Human
Interaction, (The Hague and Paris: 1973)
Boissevain, J., Friends of Friends: Networks, Manipulators and Coalitions,
(Oxford: 1974)
Churchill, Wainwright, Homosexual Behaviour Among Males: A Cross-Cultural and
Cross-Species Investigation, (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1967; p.b. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall)
Cohen, Albert, "The Study of Social Disorganization and Deviant
Behavior", in Robert Merton, Leonard Brown & Leonard Cothell, Sociology Today,
(New York: Basic Books, 1959)
Dynes, Wayne, and Stephen Donaldson, eds., Ethnographic studies of homosexuality, (New
York : Garland Pub., 1992)
Collected articles.
Erikson, Kai, "Notes on the Sociology of Deviance", in Howard Becker, The
Other Side Perspectives on Deviance, (New York: Free Press, 1964)
Evans-Pritchard, E.E., "Sexual Inversion among the Azande", American
Anthropologist 72:6 (1970)
Classic article, often used for comparative purposes.
Greenberg, David F., The Construction of Homosexuality, (Chicago: Chicago UP,
1988)
Recent exposition of the social construction school. Has an extensive historical
survey plus bibliography.
Harry, Joseph, "On the Validity of Typologies of Gay Males", Journal of
Homosexuality 2:2 (1976/77)
Harry, Joseph, "Derivative Deviance", Criminology 19:4 (1982)
Harry, Joseph & William Devall,The Social Organization of Gay Males, (New
York: Praeger, 1978)
Leinhardt, S., Social Networks: A Developing Paradigm, (New York: 1977)
Mitchell, J.C., ed., Social Networks in Urban Situations, (Manchester: 1969)
B: North American Native Cultures
Allen, Paula Gunn, "Lesbians in American Indian Cultures" in
Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History,
New York: NAL, 1989), 106-117
Blackwood, Evelyn, "Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes",
in Signs 10:1 (1984)
Callender, Charles & Lee Kochens, "The North American Berdache", Current
Anthropology 24:4 (1983)
Heinicke, Patricia L., Exploring inclusivity : formation and call in the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America and Native American berdache traditions, [Thesis
(M.A.)--Graduate Theological Union, 1994.]
Roscoe, Will, ed. Living the spirit : a gay American Indian anthology, (compiled
by Gay American Indians, Will Roscoe, coordinating editor), (New York : St. Martin's
Press, 1988)
Roscoe, Will, The Zuni Man-Woman, (Albuquerque, Univ of New Mexico, 1991)
Whitehead, Harriet, "The Bow and the Burden Strap: A New Look at Institutionalized
Homosexuality in Native North America," in Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed.
Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin, (New York: Routledge: 1993)
498-527.
C: Pacific Cultures
Herdt, Gilbert H., Symbolic and behavioral attachments in Sambia
ritualized homosexuality [Calif? : s.n., 1980?].
Herdt, Gilbert H., Guardians of the flutes : idioms of masculinity : with a new
preface, (University of Chicago Press ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994:
first ed. 1882).
Herdt, Gilbert, Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia, (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1984)
Herdt, Gilbert H., The Sambia : ritual and gender in New Guinea, (New York :
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1987
Knauft, Bruce M. "The question of ritualised homosexuality among the Kiwai of
south New Guinea." The Journal of Pacific history. 1990. v 25 n 2. 188.
D: Africa Cultures
'Abd Allah, Mahmud Mohammed, "Siwan Customs", Harvard African
Studies, 1:7 (1917)
E: Other
X: Lesbians
Works specifically on lesbians collected from all periods above. Other books cover
lesbianism as part of homosexuality in general.
A: General
Foster. Jeannette H., Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and
Quantative Survey 2nd ed., (New York: Vantage Press, 1956)(repr. Baltimore: Diana
Press, 1975)
Grier, Barbara & Coletta Reid, eds., Lesbian Lives: Biographies of Women from
The Ladder, (Oakland, Ca.: Diana Press, 1976)
Sketches of over 60 women who may have been lesbians.
Ide, Arthur Frederick, Sex, Women and Religion, (Dallas: Monument Press. 1984)
Jennings, Kevin, Becoming Visible : A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High
School and College Students, (Boston: Alyson, 1994)
Thadani, Giti, Sakhiyani, lesbian desire in ancient and modern India, (London:
Cassell, 1996)
B: Ancient and Medieval
Bell, R.M., "Renaissance Sexuality and the Florentine Archives; the
"lesbian nun" of Judith Brown", Renaissance Quarterly 40 (1987), pp.
485-511
Review article and discussion
Brooten, Bernardette J, Love Between Women: Early Christian Respones to Female
Homoeroticism, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
The most important book on the classical and early Christian history of Lesbianism.
She attacks the idea that there was no general idea of "homosexuality" in these
periods.
Brown, Judith C., "Lesbian Sexuality in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Sister
Benedetta Carlini", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 9:4 (Summer
1984), pp. 751-758; repr. in The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs, ed. Estelle B.
Freedman et al, (Chicago & London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1985), pp. 271-278
Brown, Judith C., Immodest Acts - The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy,
(New York: Oxford UP, 1986)
Brown, Judith, "Lesbian Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" in
Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History,
New York: NAL, 1989), 67-75
Cassio, A.C., "Post Classical Lesbiai", Classical Quarterly 33:1 (1983), 296-97
Crompton, Louis, "The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791', Journal
of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 11-26
Interesting account of laws against lesbianism. Also includes an updated, referenced
list of number of gay males killed in the past. See Judith Brown 'Lesbian Sexuality in
Medieval …" for a rebuttal.
Devereaux, George, "The Nature of Sappho's Siezure in FR 31 LP as Evidence of her
Inversion", Classical Quarterly 20 (1970), pp. 17-31
duBois, Page, "Eros and the Woman," Ramus 21 (1992) 97-
Hallett, Judith P. "Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality in Latin
Literature." Yale Journal of Criticism 3: (1989a), 209-227.
Huxley, G.L., "Onomakles and the Alopekonnesians (Lesbian Antiquities in the
Oxyrhyncus-Papyrus 3711)", Journal of Hellenic Studies 107 (1987), pp. 187-188
Ide, Arthur Frederick, Lesbianism in the Eearly Religious Order of the Christian
Church, (Dallas: Monument Press. 19??)
Ide, Arthur Frederick, Lesbianism in the Medieval Nunnery, (Dallas: Monument
Press. 19??)
Johnson, Penelope D. , Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval
France, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
pp 112-130, a discussion of the vow of chastity, including a rare discussion of lesbianism
among medieval nuns. There are rare indications of such activity, but very
"rare" indeed.
Kroll, Wilhelm. "Lesbische Liebe." RE 23 (1924) 2100-2102.
Lardinois, M. "Lesbian Sappho and Sappho of Lesbos" in J. Bremmer (ed.), From
Sappho to de Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality (1991)
Martos Montiel, Juan Francisco. Desde Lesbos con amor: homosexualidad
femenina en la antiguedad. Madrid: Ediciones Clasicas, 1996 (=_Supplementa
Mediterranea_ 1 (1996)).
Matter, E. Ann, 'My Sister, My Spouse: Women Identified Women in Medieval
Christianity", Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 2 (Fall 1986), 81-93
Pomeroy, S, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity, (New
York: 1975)
Snyder, Jane McIntosh. Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Williamson, Margaret. Sappho's Immortal Daughters. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1995.
C: Early Modern and Modern - Pre-"Movement"
Allen, Paula Gunn, "Lesbians in American Indian Cultures" in
Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History,
New York: NAL, 1989), 106-117
Balser, Kristof. [et al.], eds. Himmel und Holle : das Leben der Kolner
Homosexuellen 1945-1969, (Koln: Emons, 1994)
Benstock, Shari, , "Paris Lesbianism and the Politics of Reaction, 1900-1940"
in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History,
New York: NAL, 1989), 332-46
Berubé, Allan and John D'Emilio, "The Military and Lesbians During the McCarthy
Years", Signs 9 (1986), 759-75
Berube, Allan, "Marching to A Different Drummer: Lesbian and Gay GIs in World War
II" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From
History, New York: NAL, 1989), 383-394
Blackmer, Corinne E. "African Masks and the Arts of Passing in Gertrude Stein's
`Melanctha' and Nella Larsen's Passing." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:2 (1993): 230-63.
Britten, Vera, Radclyffe Hall, A Case of Obscenity?, (London: Femina, 1968)
Brown, Kathleen. "`Changed . . . into the fashion of man': The Politics of Sexual
Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement." Journal of the
History of Sexuality 6:2 (1995): 171-93.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. "`Something Happens to Girls': Menarche and the Emergence
of the Modern American Hygienic Imperative." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:1 (1993): 99-127.
Burgin, Diana Lewis. "Mother Nature versus the Amazons: Marina Tsvetaeva and
Female Same-Sex Love." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:1 (1995): 62-88.
Chauncey, Jr., George , "From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: The Changing
Medical Conceptualization of Female `Deviance'," in Passion and Power: Sexuality
in History, ed. Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons with Robert A. Padgug, (Philadelphia
: Temple University Press, 1989),87-117.
Clark, Anna. "Anne Lister's Construction of Lesbian Identity." Journal of
the History of Sexuality 7:1 (1996): 23-50.
Cooper, Robyn. "Definition and Control: Alexander Walker's Trilogy on Woman." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:3 (1992): 341-64.
Davis Madeline and Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, "Oral History and the Study of
Sexuality in the Lesbian Community of Buffalo, New York, 1940-1960 " in Martin Bauml
Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York:
NAL, 1989), 426-440
Donoghue, Emma, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801,
(London: Scarlett, 1993: New York: HarperCollins, 1995)
duCille, Ann. "Blues Notes on Black Sexuality: Sex and the Texts of Jessie Fauset
and Nella Larsen." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:3 (1993): 418-44.
Emery, Kim. "Steers, Queers, and Manifest Destiny: Representing the Lesbian
Subject in Turn-of-the-Century Texas." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:1
(1994): 26-57.
Eriksson, Brigitte, "A Lesbian Execution in Germany, 1721: The Trial
Records", Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 27-40
Trial records of two lesbians tired in 1721. Based on a report in a 19th Century German
medical periodical.
Evans, Richard, The Feminist Movement in Germany, 1894-1933, (London: Sage,
1976)
Faderman, Lilian & Brigette Erikson, Lesbian-Feminism in Turn-of the Century
Germany, (Weatherby Lake, Mo.: Naiad Press, 198o)
History of Lesbianism in Germany 1895-1921, including Anna Rulings address to the
Scientific-Humantarian Commitee.
Faderman, Lilian, Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordan,
(New York: William Morrow, 1983)
Dramatisation of Scottish trial involving lesbians in 1792: No footnotes or bibliography
but see also Jonathan Katz, ed., Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame
Helen Cumming Gordon, (New York: Arno Press, 1975), a repr. of Authorities with
Regard to the Practice of Tribadism, (1811) - a collection of authorities on
lesbianism for a Scots libel case.
Faderman, Lilian, Surpassing the Love of Men, (New York: William Morrow,
1981)
History of Lesbians based on literary sources.
Gilmore, Leigh. "Obscenity, Modernity, Identity: Legalizing The Well of Loneliness
and Nightwood." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:4 (1994): 603-24.
Gwilliam, Tassie. "Female Fraud: Counterfeit Maidenheads in the Eighteenth
Century." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4 (1996): 518-48.
Haag, Pamela S. "In Search of `The Real Thing': Ideologies of Love, Modern
Romance, and Women's Sexual Subjectivity in the United States, 1920-1940." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 2:4 (1992): 547-77.
Jagose, Annamarie. "Way Out: The Category `Lesbian' and the Fantasy of the Utopic
Space." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:2 (1993): 264-87.
Katz, Jonathan, ed., Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen
Cumming Gordon, (New York: Arno Press, 1975)
Repr. of Authorities with Regard to the Practice of Tribadism, (1811) - a
collection of authorities on lesbianism for a Scots libel case.
Katz, Jonathan, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the USA - A
Documentary, (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976; paperback, New York: Avon Discus)
Anthology of 168 documents with some analysis. Gives half of its space to lesbians
Katz, Jonathan, The Gay/Lesbian Almanac, (New York: Morrow, 1983)
Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of
Gold : The History of a Lesbian Community, (London: Routledge Chapman Hall, 1993)
Kraakman, Dorelies. "Reading Pornography Anew: A Critical History of Sexual
Knowledge for Girls in French Erotic Fiction, 1750-1840." Journal of the History
of Sexuality 4:4 (1994): 517-48.
Krug, Kate. "Women Ovulate, Men Spermate: Elizabeth Blackwell as a Feminist
Physiologist." Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:1 (1996): 51-72.
Lindquist, Lisa J. "Images of Alice: Gender, Deviancy, and a Love Murder in
Memphis." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:1 (1995): 30-61.
Mahood, Linda, and Barbara Littlewood. "The `Vicious' Girl and the `Street-Corner'
Boy: Sexuality and the Gendered Delinquent in the Scottish Child-Saving Movement, 1850-
1940." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:4 (1994): 549-78.
Matus, Jill L. "Saint Teresa, Hysteria, and Middlemarch." Journal of the
History of Sexuality 1:2 (1990): 215-40.
Moeller, Robert G. "`The Homosexual Man Is a "Man," the Homosexual Woman
Is a "Woman"': Sex, Society, and the Law in Postwar West Germany." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 4:3 (1994): 395-429.
Newton, Esther, "The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radcliffe Hall and the New
Woman" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 281-293
Newton, Esther, Cherry Grove, Fire Island : Sixty Years in America's First Gay
and L esbian Town, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993)
Perry, Ruth. "Colonizing the Breast: Sexuality and Maternity in
Eighteenth-Century England." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:2 (1991):
204-34.
Rivers, Christopher. "Safe Sex: The Prophylactic Walls of the Cloister in the
French Libertine Convent Novel of the Eighteenth Century." Journal of the History
of Sexuality 5:3 (1995): 381-402.
Rupp, Leila J., "Imagine My Surprise: Women's Relationships in Mid
Twentieth-century American " in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George
Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 395-410
San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Histor Project, "'She Even Chewed Tobabbo': A
Pisctorial Narrative of passing Women " in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and
George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 183-194
Sangster, Joan. "Incarcerating `Bad Girls': The Regulation of Sexuality through
the Female Refugees ASct in Ontario, 1920- 1945." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 7:2 (1996): 239-75.
Smith Rosenberg, C., "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between
women in nineteenth century America", Signs 1 (1973), 1-29
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, "Discourses of Sexuality and Subjectivity: The New
Woman, 1870-1936 " in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 264--281
van der Meer, Theo. "Tribades on Trial: Female Same-Sex Offenders in Late
Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3 (1991):
424-45.
Vicinus, Martha, "Distance and Desire: English Boarding School Friendships,
1870-1920" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 212-232
Wells, Anna. M., Miss Marks and Miss Wolley, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978)
Lesbian faculty at Mount Holyoke College.
D: Modern - Post-"Movement"
Abbott, Sidney, "Lesbians and the Women's Movement", in Ginny
Vida, Our Right to Love, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978)
Abbott, Sidney, & Barbara Love, Sappho Was a Right-On Women, (New York:
Stein & Day, 1972)
Lesbian liberation 1969-1972
Atkinson, Ti-Grace, "Lesbianism and Feminism" in Phyllis Buckley et al, eds., Amazon Expedition, (Washington, N.J.: Times Change Press, 1973)
Crier, Barbara & Coletta Reid, eds., The Lavender Herring, (Baltimore: Diana
Press, 1976)
Journalism from the early lesbian magazine, The Ladder
Cruikshank, Margaret, The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement, Revolutionary
Thought/Radical Movements, (London: Routledge Chapman Hall, 1992)
D'Emilio, John, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communites, (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1983)
Most complete account of US homophile movement in 1950s and 1960s. Covers male and
female organzations.
Faderman, Lilian, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in
Twentieth-Century America, (New York: Columbia UP, 199?)
Faderman, Lillian. "The Return of Butch and Femme: A Phenomenon in Lesbian
Sexuality of the 1980s and 1990s." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:4
(1992): 578-96.
Grier, Barbara & Coletta Reid, eds., The Lavender Herring, (Baltimore: Diana
Press, 1976)
Journalism from the early lesbian magazine, The Ladder
Hart, Lynda. "'Til Death Do Us Part: Impossible Spaces in Thelma and Louise." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:3 (1994): 430-46.
Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of
Gold : The History of a Lesbian Community, (London: Routledge Chapman Hall, 1993)
Kokula, Ilse, Der Kampf gegen Unterdruckung, (Munich: Verlag
Frauenoffensive, 1975)
Development of modern German Lesbian movement.
Martin, Del & Phyllis Lyon, Lesbian/Women, (San Francisco: Glide
Publications, 1972)
by co-founders of the Daughters of Bilitis. 1950s homophile movement.
Myron, Nancy & Charlotte Bunch, Women Remembered: A Collection of Biographies
form the "Furies", (Baltimore: Diana Press, 1974)
Sketches of famous lesbians.
Rule, Jane, Lesbian Images, (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975)
Looks at writings of famous lesbians.
Shilts, Randy, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military, (New
York: 1993)
Vida, Ginny, Our Right to Love, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978)
Covers Lesbian issues in the 1970s
XI: Homosexuality Outside Europe and North America
A: General
Bullough, Vern. L., Sexual Variance in Society and History, (Chicago,
1976)
Dynes, Wayne R. and Stephen Donaldson, eds. Asian homosexuality, (New York :
Garland Pub., 1992)
Collected articles
Bleys, Rudi, The geography of perversion : male-to-male sexual behaviour outside the
West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918, (New York University Press, 1995;
London ; New York, NY : Cassell, 1996)
Yukiko Hanawa, ed. Circuits of desire, Vol. 2:1 (Durham, NC : Duke University
Press, 1994)
Contents: A world of corpses : From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to AIDS / William Haver --
Three sexes and four sexualities : redressing the discourses on gender and sexuality in
contemporary Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris -- Oscar Wilde in Japan : aestheticism,
orientalism, and the derealization of the homosexual / Jeffrey Nunokawa -- With chaos in
each kiss / Timothy Liu -- Four acrylic paintings / Martin Wong --(Dis)Orienting the body
: locating symbolic resistance among Filipino gay men / Martin F. Manalansan IV --
Masturbation, themperor, and the language of the sublime in Oe Kenzaburo / Hosea Hirata --
The discourse on male marriage : Li Yu's "A male mencius's mother" / Sophie
Volpp -- Desire at cross(-cultural) purposes : Hiroshima, Mon amour and Merry Christmas
Mr. Lawrence / Earl Jackson Jr.
Miller, Neil, Out in the World : Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to
Bangkok, (New York: Vintage, 1993)
Murray, Stephen O. "Southwest Asian and North African Terms for Homosexual
Roles." Archives of sexual behavior. December 01, 1995. v. 24. n. 6. 623.
Sullivan, Gerard, ed., Gays and Lesbians in Asia and the Pacific: Social and human
Services, (Binghamton NY: Haworth, 1996)
B: China
[Note: Mostly items in Western languages]
Altman, Dennis. "Asian Gays." Outrage: a magazine for lesbians and gay
men. 137. Oct 1 1994. 14.
Dikötter, Frank. Sex, Culture and Modernity in China.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995
Fang-fu Ruan and Yung-mei Tsai, "Male Homosexuality in Traditional Chinese
Literature", Journal of Homosexuality 14 (1987), 21-33
Furth, Charlotte. "Androgynous Males and Deficient Females: Biology and Gender
Boundaries in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China." Late Imperial China (1988) 9.2:1-27.
"Has The Wedding Banquet helped Taiwan gays?" Asiaweek. 1993. v 19 n
48. 45
Gulick, Robert H. Van, Sexual Life in Ancient China, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974).
Hershatter, Gail. "Courtesans and Streetwalkers: The Changing Discourses on
Shanghai Prostitution, 1890-1949." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:2
(1992): 245-69.
Hinch, Brent, Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China,
(Berkeley: 1990)
Kapac, Jack Steven, Chinese male homosexuality : sexual identity formation and gay
organizational development in a contemporary chinese population, [Thesis (Ph.
D.)--University of Toronto, 1992.; Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms International,
1993)
Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong. Report on Laws Governing Homosexual Conduct.
(Hong Kong: The Commission, 1983. In Chinese and English.)
Mackerras, Colin. The Rise of the Peking Opera, 1770-1870.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972
Meijer, M.J. "Homosexual Offenses in Ch'ing Law", T'oung Pao 71
(1985), 109-133
McGough, James. "Deviant Marriage Patterns." In Arthur
Kleinman and Tsung-Yi Lin, eds., Normal and Abnormal Behaviour in Chinese Culture.
Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel. 1981
McMahon, Keith. Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and
Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction. Durham: Duke University
Press, 1995
Murray, Dian. Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.
Murray, Dian, "The Practice of Homosexuality Among the
Pirates of Late 18th and Early 19th Century China." International Journal of
Maritime History (1992) 4.1:121-30.
Ng, Vivien. "Ideology and Sexuality: Rape Laws in Qing
China." Journal of Asian Studies 1987 46:51-70.
Ng, Vivien. "Homosexuality and the State in Late Imperial China" in Hidden
From History eds. Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey Jr. Meridian
(New York: 1989), 76-89
Sommer, Matthew. "The Penetrated Male in Late Imperial China:
Judicial Constructions and Social Stigma." Modern China 23.2 (1997):140-80 .
Szonyi, Michael, "The Cult of Hu Tianbao and the Eighteenth-Century
Discourse of Homosexuality," Late Imperial China 19.1 (1998) 1-25
-About the cult of a god who supported homosexual relationships. Witha very useful
up-to-date bibliography.
-online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/late_imperial_china/v019/19.1szonyi.html [but only if your college pays for acess to Johns Hopkins University Journals.]
"Taiwan: Lesbian Organizing: Culture, Sexuality, Politics." Connexions.
1994. n 46. 20.
van Gulik, Robert. 1961. Sexual Life in Ancient China: A Preliminary
Survey of Chinese Sex and Society from ca. 1500 BC till 1644 A.D.. Leiden: E.J. Brill,
1961, reprinted 1974
Vitiello, Giovanni. "The Dragon's Whim: Ming and Qing
Homoerotic Tales from The Cut Sleeve." T'oung Pao 78 (1992):341-72
Volpp, Sophie. 1994. "The Discourse on Male Marriage: Li Yu's 'A
Male Mencius's Mother'," Positions 2.1:113-32.
Wawrytko, Sandra. "Homosexuality and Chinese and Japanese
Religions." In Arlene Swidler, ed., Homosexuality and World Religions. Valley
Forge: Trinity. 1993
Weixingshi guanzhaizhu (pseud.) Zhongguo tongxinglian mishi (Secret History of Homosexuality in China). Hong Kong: Yuzhou, 1964.
Xiaomingxiong (pseud). Zhongguo tongxingai shilu (Historical Record of Homosexual Love in China). Hong Kong: Pink Triangle Press, 1984
C: Japan
[Note: Only items in Western languages included]
Ihara, Saikaku, (1642-1693), The great mirror of male love, translated, with
anintroduction, by Paul Gordon Schalow. (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
1990)
Leupp, Gary P.Male colors : the construction of homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan,
(Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995)
Schalow, Paul Gordon. "Male Love in Early Modern Japan: A Literary Depiction of
the 'Youth'" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 118-128
Cassio, A.C., "Post Classical Lesbiai", Classical Quarterly 33:1 (1983), 118-128
Schalow, Paul Gordon and Janet A. Walker, eds., The woman's hand : gender and theory
in Japanese women's writing, (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1996)
Mathers, E. Powys, Comrade Loves of the Samauri, (Tokyo: Charles E. Tittle,
1972)
Partial trans. of Ihara Saikaku. Now see Schalow translation.
Miller, Stephen D. ed., Partings at dawn : an anthology of Japanese gay literature,
with introduction by Paul Gordon Schalow. 1st ed., (San Francisco : Gay Sunshine Press,
1996)
Uchida, Kinzo. "A reproduction of "Yoshiwara Junitoki Ekotoba" by
Kuwagata Keisai -relation with the works of Chobunsai Eishi and a background of handscroll
paintings of the Edo period" Museum Myujiamu. 505. Apr 01 1993. 5.
Watanabe, Tsuneo and Jun'ichi Iwata, The love of the Samurai : a thousand years of
Japanese homosexuality, translated by D. R. Roberts. (London : Gay Men's Press ;
Boston, MA, USA : Alyson [distributor], 1989.)
Wawrytko, Sandra. "Homosexuality and Chinese and Japanese
Religions." In Arlene Swidler, ed., Homosexuality and World Religions. Valley
Forge: Trinity. 1993
D: South Asia
[Note: Only items in Western languages included]
AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan [organization], Less than gay : a citizens' report
on the status of homosexuality in India, (New Delhi, India: AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi
Andolan, 1991)
Balasubrahmanyan, Vimal. "Gay Rights in India." Economic and political
weekly. 1996. v 31 n 5. 257.
Hansen, Waldemar, "Naked to his Enemies", in The Peacock Throne, (New
York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972), pp. 396-421
Account of a Sufi mystic, Sarmad, a convert from Judaism, in Mogul India.
Levine, Philippa. "Venereal Disease, Prostitution, and the Politics of Empire: The
Case of British India." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:4 (1994):
579-602.
Ratti, Rakesh, ed., A Lotus of another color : an unfolding of the South Asian gay
and lesbian experience, 1st ed., (Boston : Alyson Publications, 1993)
Kala, Arvind. Invisible minority : the unknown world of the Indian homosexual,
(New Delhi : Dynamic Books, 1992)
Khan, Surina. "India and Pakistan: Sexual Politics and Oppression." The
Harvard gay & lesbian review. 1995. v 2 n 4. 27.
Ramakrishnan: "Bisexuality:
identities, behaviors, and politics", Trikone April 1996 [At Utextas]
Seabrook, Jeremy. "Out in India." New statesman society. 320:7. SEP 16
1994. 12.
Sweet, Michael J., and Leonard Zwilling. "The First Medicalization: The Taxonomy
and Etiology of Queerness in Classical Indian Medicine." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 3:4 (1993): 590- 607.
Thadani, Giti, Sakhiyani, lesbian desire in ancient and modern India, (London:
Cassell, 1996)
Tull, Herman W. "The Tale of `The Bride and the Monkey': Female Insatiability,
Male Impotence, and Simian Virility in Indian Literature." Journal of the History
of Sexuality 3:4 (1993): 574-89.
Zwilling, Leonard, and Michael J. Sweet. "`Like a City Ablaze': The Third Sex and
the Creation of Sexuality in Jain Religious Literature." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 6:3 (1996): 359-84.
E: Latin America
Arboleda, Manuel, "Gay Life in Lima", Gay Sunshine 42/43 (1980)
Arguelles, Lourdes and B. Ruby Rich, "Homosexuality, Homophobia and Revolution:
Notes Towards and Understanding of Cuband Lesbian and Gaye Male Experience ", in
Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History,
New York: NAL, 1989), 441-455
Botero, Ebel, "Our Sisters and Brothers in Columbia", in Gay Community
News (Boston: 8:25, 1981)
Carrier, Joseph, "Cultural Factors Affecting Urban Male Homosexual Behavior", Archives of Sexual Behavior 5:2 (1976)
Carrier, Joseph, De Los Otros : Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican Men,
(New York: Columbia Univ Press, 1995)
Coro, Barbara, "A Cuban Lesbian's Story", Chicago Gay Life March 13,
1981, 17-19
Defensa de los religiones de Convento de la Merced conta el proyecto de ley sobre
supression de las communidades en el Peru, (Lima: 1886)
Defense of a monastery accused of "unnatural practices.
Ellis, Robert Richmond, The Hispanic Homograph : Gay Self-Representation in
Contemporary Spanish Autobiography, (Champaign-Urbana: Univ of Illinois Press, 199?)
Epps, Brad. "Proper Conduct: Reinaldo Arenas, Fidel Castro, and the Politics of
Homosexuality." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:2 (1995): 231-83.
Foster, David William, ed., Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes: A
Bio-Critical Sourcebook, (?: Greenwood, 1994)
Foster, David, Ed., Encyclopedia of South American Lesbian and Gay Literature,
(?:Greenwood, 1994)
Green, James Naylor, Beyond Carnival : homosexuality in twentieth-century Brazil,
[Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 1996]
Herrick, Thaddeus, "A View of Venezuelan Homosexuality", Habari-Daftari 4 (1984)
Jauregui, Carlos Luis, La homosexualidad en la Argentina, (Buenos Aires:
Ediciones Tarso, 1987)
Lumsden, Ian, Machos, maricones, and gays : Cuba and homosexuality,
(Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 1996)
Mott, Luiz R. B. (Luiz Roberto de Barros), Escravidao, homossexualidade e
demonologia, (Sao Paulo, SP: Icone Editora, 1988)
Murray, Stephen O,, ed., Male homosexuality in Central and South America, (San
Francisco, CA : Instituto Obregon, c1987)
Murray, Stephen O., Latin American male homosexualities, (Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico ress, c1995)
Salessi, Jorge. "The Argentine Dissemination of Homosexuality, 1890-1914." Journal
of the History of Sexuality 4:3 (1994): 337-68.
Trevisan, Joao S., Perverts in Paradise, trans. Martin Foreman, (London: GMP,
1986)
A historical account of gays in Brazil. Trevisan, who is a pioneer in the rich field
of Brazilian gay history, recounts the activities of the Inquisition on Brazil against
"sodmites".
Ugarteche, Oscar, Historia, sexo y cultura en el Peru, (Lima, Peru: Movimiento
Homosexual de Lima, 1993)
Wilson, Carter, Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan,
(New York: Columbia Univ Press, 1996)
Young Allen, Gays Under the Cuban Revolution, (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press,
1981)
F: Middle East
[Note: Only items in Western languages included]
Combs-Schilling, M. Elaine. "Etching Patriarchal Rule: Ritual Dye, Erotic
Potency, and the Moroccan Monarchy." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:4
(1991): 658-81.
Daniel, Marc, "Arab Civilisation and Male Love". trans Winston Leyland, in
Jonathon Goldberg, Ed. Reclaiming Sodom, (London: Routledge,1994) pp. 59-65.
Joseph, Suad, "Women, War, and History: Debates in Middle Eastern Women's
Studies." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:1 (1993): 128-36. [REVIEW
ESSAY].
Patai, Rafael, The Arab Mind, Rev. ed. (New York : Scribner, c1983)
Roth, Norman, "Boy-love in Medieval Arabic Verse", PAIDIKA - Journal of
Paedophilia 3:3 (Winter 1994), 12-17
Schmitt, Arno and Jehoeda Sofer, eds., Sexuality and eroticism among males in
Moslem societies, (New York : Haworth Press, 1991)
Wormhoudt, Arthur, "Classic Arab Poetry, 600-1299", Gay Books Bulletin 4, (Autumn 1980), 23-27
G: Africa
Dunton, Chris, and Mai Palmberg. Human rights and homosexuality in
Southern Africa, [Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1996)
Gevisser, Mark, and Edwin Cameron, eds..Defiant desire: gay and lesbian lives in
South Africa, (New York : Routledge, 1994)
On South African gays and lesbians
Isaacs, Gordon, and and Brian McKendrick, Male homosexuality in South Africa :
identity formation, culture, and crisis, (Cape Town ; New York : Oxford University
Press, 1992)
Krouse, Matthew, assisted by Kim Berman, The invisible ghetto : lesbian and gay
writing from South Africa, (Johannesburg, South Africa : COSAW Pub., 1993; London :
Gay Men's Press ; East Haven, CT : Inbook [distributor], 1995.)
Moodie T. Dunbar, et al, "Migrancy and Male sexuality on the South African Gold
Mines", in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden
From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 411-425
Murray, Stephen O. and Will Roskam, From Boy Wives and Female Husbands: Studies
in African Homosexualities, New York: St. Martins Press, 1998?
Preprint online at http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/africa.html
Spaulding, Jay, and Stephanie Beswick. "Sex, Bondage, and the Market: The
Emergence of Prostitution in Northern Sudan, 1750-1950." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 5:4 (1995): 512-34.
Sweet, James H. "Male Homosexuality and Spritism in the African Diaspora: The
Legacies of a Link." Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:2 (1996): 184-202.
Vance, Carol, "Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of
Sexuality", in Homosexuality. Which Homosexuality?, ed. Theo van der Meer and
Anja van Kooten Niekerk, (London: 1989)
Discusses "lesbian" experience in Nigeria.
H: Other
Manderson, Lenore. "Colonial Desires: Sexuality, Race, and Gender in
Colonial Malaya." Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:3 (1997): 372-71.
Murray, Stephen O., Oceanic homosexualities, (New York : Garland Pub., 1992)
Asia and Australasia.
Hart, Donn, Hart, Harriett. "Visayan Swardspeak: The language of a gay community
in the Philippines." Crossroads. 5.2 1990 27.
Manalansan IV, Marti. "(Dis)Orienting the Body: Locating Symbolic Resistance among
Filipino Gay men." Positions : East Asia cultures critique. 1994. v 2 n 1. 73.
"Vietnam's next battle." Outrage: a magazine for lesbians and gay men.
120. May 01 1993. 8.
Young, C. H. "Behind Gay Bars in Korea." KoreAm Journal. August 1993.
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