Jane Austen’s brothers sat in judgement over navy men accused of sodomy.
Tag: sodomy
Searching for Sodom: Homoeroticism and the Protestant Tradition in England 1550-1850
The story of Sodom provided a context for discussions of homoerotic behavior.
“Sodomy is not Adultery”: The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History
Men and women could engage in a range of sex acts, which the courts recognized as sodomy, and still maintain that they had not technically cheated.
Queering de Sade
The “divine marquis” influenced literature, philosophy, and artistic and social movements such as Surrealism, Situationism, and Provo.
‘In the manner of a woman’: John/Eleanor Rykener and the Inessentiality of Gender
John/ Eleanor Rykener’s confession reveals the complexity of queer lives in medieval England.
