User:Lexid523/Queer historiography project

Historical Context

• History of homosexuality/LGBT history
  • Homosexuality in ancient Egypt
  • Homosexuality in ancient Greece
  • Homosexuality in ancient Rome
  • History of Christianity and homosexuality
  • Homosexuality in medieval Europe
  • Homosexuality in ancient Peru
• Sodomy law
  • List of people executed for homosexuality in Europe
  • ExecutedToday.com » Homosexuals
• Societal attitudes toward homosexuality

Primary Sources

• On homosexuality: Lysis, Phaedrus, and Symposium by Plato
• wikisource:de:Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
• Das Gemeinschädliche des § 143 des preussischen Strafgesetzbuches & Paragraph 143 by Karl-Maria (Károly Mária) Kertbeny
• Online-Bibliographie zur Homosexualität (from 1418)
• Frederick the Great's 1746 order suspending the death penalty for sodomy (in German and Google Translate English)

Books

To sort through:

• Open Library list of Homosexuality > History
• History > Homosexuality

General

• About Time: Exploring the Gay Past (1986) by Martin B. Duberman
• Hidden from history : reclaiming the gay and lesbian past (1989) by Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey
• Passion and power: sexuality in history (1989) by Kathy Lee Peiss and Christina Simmons

Ancient World

• Pederasty and pedagogy in archaic Greece (1996) by William A. Percy
• The Greeks and Greek Love (2007) by James N. Davidson

Middle Ages

• Book of Gomorrah (1048; tr. 1982) by St. Petro Damiani
• The Unmentionable Vice (1979) by Michael Goodich
• Christianity, Social Tolerance, and homosexuality (1980) by John Boswell
• Sodom and Gomorrah [1] (2001) by Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller

Renaissance & Reformation

• Homosexuality in Early Modern France (2000) by Jeffrey Merrick
• Les procès de sodomie aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles by Fernand Fleuret

Age of Reason (Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment)

• Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England (1992) by Claude J. Summers
• Romantic Genius (1999) by Andrew Elfenbein
• Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800 (2007) by Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda

19th Century

• Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature From 1850-1900 (1970) by Brian Reade
• Prince Eddy and the homosexual underworld [2] (1995) by Theo Aronson
• Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality (1999) by Chris White
• Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (2003) by Graham Robb
• Nameless Offences [3] (2003, 2010) by Harry Cocks
• John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) and Homosexuality (2012) by Sean Brady
• Homosexuality in Italian literature, society, and culture, 1789-1919 (2017) by Lorenzo Benadusi

20th Century (pre-Stonewallish)

• Gay New York by George Chauncey

Pre-Stonewallish Queer Culture

• Rictor Norton knows what's up

Slang, Euphemism, and Other Terminology

• Category:LGBTQ_linguistics
• Wiktionary
• Against Nature or Crimes against nature
• Friend of Dorothy
• He never married (/"confirmed bachelor"; also "not the marrying kind", "he valued his privacy"; and "longtime companion" meaning partner)
• The love that dare not speak its name
• Polari / On Wiktionary
• Uranian

External Links

• Vocabulaire de l'homosexualité masculine: French gay slang from ~1450-2000
  • non-conformité [4], antiphysique
• Green's Dictionary of Slang

Symbolism and Iconography

• LGBT symbols - specifically lavender (also the color), calamus, green carnations, violets; hyacinths, narcissus, orchids (not an exclusively gay symbol), pansies (primarily a slur)
  • possible others: begonia, buttercup, cypress, daisy, delphinium, elderberry, fern, haricot (bean), hazel, kiwi, lilac, lily, mandrake, mint/minty [5][6], peacock feathers, quince, Lad's love
  • flower, fruit, and herb generally
  • List of taxa named after human genitals
  • Nautical star tattoo
• Classical figures: Alcibiades, Antinous, Damon and Pythias, Ganymede, Hyacinthus, Hephaestion, Narcissus, Patroclus, Sacred Band of Thebes; other such classical mythological figures were less common
  • Karl Heinrich Ulrichs coined the terms Uranian/Urning based on Aphrodite Urania (not to be confused with the muse of astronomy) in the mid-19th century. Aphrodite Urania's mainstream symbolism prior to Ulrichs's work was of "celestial" or "non-earthly" love, and had been approximated to homosexual love by Pausanias in Plato's Symposium. But I am curious how the concept may have developed or even just been referenced between Plato and Ulrichs. There's also a possible link of "non-earthly" love being reclaimed as a more positive variant of "unnatural".
    • "Der Gott Uranus und der Uranismus"
• Classical works: Plato's Symposium
• Judeo-Christian figures: David and Jonathan, Jesus and John the Apostle, Ruth and Naomi, St. Sebastian
• "Have you heard the rumors about Marie Antoinette?" (mostly in the early 20th century)
• Gay literature#Overview and history
  • Queer (or perceived as queer) authors: Hafez, Sappho, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde
  • Literary figures: Shakespeare's "Fair Youth"

Broadly speaking, any person known to be or perceived as queer would continued to be a queer cultural touchstone thereafter (e.g. Frederick the Great and "Potsdamists")

Misdirection

• Beard (companion)
• Lavender marriage
• Pronoun game

Convenient Ambiguity

• Adelphopoiesis
• Boston marriage
• Matelotage
• Favourite
• Romantic Friendship

Books

• Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

Locales

• Renaissance: Florence, Italy (cf. the German word "Florenzer" as Renaissance-era slang meaning gay men)
• 18th century: Molly house, Tahiti (according to Bentham's essay)
• 19th century: Any place under the Napoleonic codes (usually France or Italy),
  • In Britain: London - Cleveland Street, Jermyn Street (due to a Turkish bath raid), Vere Street

Historical Mainstream Perceptions

• Description de l'isle des hermaphrodites, 1724 satire of France's Henri III
• The Homosexual Society (UK, 1962)
• "The public representation of homosexual men in seventeenth-century England – a corpus based view"

Historiography of Queer Identities

• History of homosexuality#Historiographic considerations
• Homosexuality in ancient Greece#Scholarship and controversy
• "Greek love" (also "Socratic love") coined/formalized by German classicists circa 1750.

Books, Articles, etc.

• Homosexuality: A Philosophical Inquiry by Michael Ruse
• "Homosexuality" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• "Queer Anthropology" in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology
• Homosexuality, which homosexuality?, essays from the International Conference on Gay and Lesbian Studies 1987
• Making Sexual History by Jeffrey Weeks
• Freud for Historians by Peter Gay

To sort through:

• Open Library list of Historiography > Homosexuality

Internal Debate

Constructionist

• Sexual orientation#Social constructionism
• The History of Sex by Michel Foucault
• How to Do the History of Homosexuality by David M. Halperin
  • Review and criticism by Thomas K. Hubbard
• The Making of the Modern Homosexual by Kenneth Plummer
• The construction of homosexuality by David F. Greenberg

Essentialist

• The Myth of the Modern Homosexual by Rictor Norton
  • "Fuck Foucault: How Eighteenth-Century Homosexual History Validates the Essentialist Model"
• "Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories" (PDF). by John Boswell

Trans Identities

• Manion, Jen , "Language, Acts, and Identity in LGBT History" , in The Routledge History of Queer America ed. Don Romesburg (Abingdon: Routledge, 28 Mar 2018)

Sundry sources of related interest

• Early (1830) historical denialism (p. 306-313)
  • Also cites "Sisimondi, Republiques Italiennes, tome III. p. 182" and "Knight on the Symbolical Language of Ancient Mythology, § 86" ; Acknowledgement that the Athenians were all about the superiority of erastes/eromenos relationships, citing Aristotle's Politics II.7.5.