Gay history
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gayhistory.com is an introduction to the stories and the people of modern gay history (1700-1973). The site is an ongoing project and most articles about gay male history from 1700-1900 have been completed. -- Andrew Wikholm http://www.gayhistory.com/ [Sept 2004]Timeline
The People and the Stories of Modern Gay HistoryIntroduction: What's a Modern Homosexual? 1700-1800: Sodomitical Subcultures Emerge 1710: Masturbation Condemned in Onania 1715: Parisian Police Entrap "Pederasts" 1726: Mollies Arrested in London 1730: Dutch Sodomite Massacre 1760: Tissot Declares Masturbation Dangerous 1786: Pennsylvania Drops Death Penalty 1791: "Pederasty" Decriminalized in France 1794: Prussia Rescinds Death Penalty 1828: New Sodomy Law in England 1836: H�ssli Publishes "Eros" 1850-1900: Doctors Medicalize Sex 1853: France Criminalizes Cross Dressing Biography: K. M. Benkert/Kertbeny 1857: Tardieu Diagnoses "Pederasty" 1857: Morel Invents Degeneration 1857: Acton Cures Masturbatory Diseases Biography: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs 1861: England Rescinds Death Penalty 1864: Ulrichs Invents Urnings 1869: Kertbeny coins "Homosexuality" 1869: Westphal Invents Sexual Inversion 1871: Germany Adopts Paragraph 175 Biography: Walt Whitman 1885: England Criminalizes "Gross Indecency" 1886: Krafft-Ebing Diagnoses Degenerates 1889: Scandal on Cleveland Street Biography: Havelock Ellis Biography: Oscar Wilde Biography: Magnus Hirschfeld 1896: Der Eigene Goes to Press 1896: Ellis Publishes Sexual Inversion 1896: Raffalovich Condemns Doctors 1897: Hirschfeld Forms Committee Biography: Sigmund Freud 1905: Freud Invents Sexuality 1912: Steinach Alters Sexuality with Hormones 1924: Gerber Starts Society for Human Rights 1928: Brits Censor "The Well of Loneliness" 1941: Henry Publishes "Sex Variants" Biography: Harry Stack Sullivan Biography: Alfred Kinsey 1948: Kinsey Publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male-- -- Andrew Wikholm http://www.gayhistory.com/rev2/contents.htmA History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition - Gregory Woods [Amazon US] [FR] [DE] [UK] 
The very idea of a unique tradition of gay-male writing began relatively recently. Early in the 20th century, homosexual writers began to write more honestly. Yet writers, both gay and straight, have written about the experience of homosexuality since ancient times. In his encyclopedic overview, Gregory Woods has knitted together a transhistorical and transcultural history--a tradition--of gay-male writing over the centuries. Using a broad but readily applicable definition of gay literature that includes works by openly gay men, works in which homosexual activity occurs, and works that manifest a gay "sensibility," Woods manages to move us from Homer to David Leavitt, from Arabic poets of the classical age to contemporary South African poetry, from closeted Victorian memoirs to AIDS literature. By its nature, A History of Gay Literature lacks the specificity of critique that illuminates individual work, but this approach is more than compensated for by the book's ability to locate and discuss amazing similarities of experience and expression throughout history and culture. Highly intelligent, jauntily written, and endlessly informative, A History of Gay Literature is an impressive addition to contemporary gay scholarship. --Amazon.comyour Amazon recommendations
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