Discussions of “deviant” sexuality were visible and vibrant within artistic and literary communities.
Tag: literature
"The Gay Bulge" or Can We Study Medieval Sexuality Through Puns?
Perhaps sometimes a ‘gay bulge’ is just a gae bolga.
Beyond penetration: rethinking the murder of Edward II
Was Edward II’s brutal murder related to his sexual behaviour?
Curating LGBTQ Histories: Queer Season at Sutton House
Just a decade ago, the idea of an exhibition addressing LGBT themes in a National Trust house would likely have been dismissed.
Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction (cont’d)
In Stewart’s world homosexuality in any form brings a touch of exoticism and sophistication to proceedings.
Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction
I can’t help but apply a queer lens to everything I read.
The Erotics of Shaving in Victorian Britain
Beardedness in nineteenth-century Britain had definite implications for manliness and sexuality.
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“Homosexual Hearers” and Queer Musicality in Xavier Mayne’s The Intersexes (1909)
Squirming in the Dark: Playful Occupations for Sex Workers in the 1870 Census