Homophobia: A History by Byrne Fone

[emma_rainbow]

It's a very interesting and crushingly depressing book. I feel very lucky to be alive today.

Like all sensible readers of a big fat textbook, I started in the middle with the end of the renaissance, and I'm nearing the end of the Victorian era.

Some fun facts about the treatment of 'convicted sodomites' 
Henry the 8th made sodomy a secular rather than

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Re: indeeds is brave

[emma_rainbow]

Oooh, that is good.
:)

There are a lot of interesting bits from H: a history that I do feel compelled to share - there's a fictional speech from a gay priest in the 1850s which is blimmin good, and I'm probably gonna eke a post out of it soon - watch this space!

Re: indeeds is brave

[emma_rainbow]

Alas, having now finished the book... Jeffers was a forward-thinker, since he thought that you should castrate homosexuals instead of hang them.

:(