User:Lexid523/Queer historiography project
Historical Context
[edit]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
[edit]To sort through:
General
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Pederasty and pedagogy in archaic Greece (1996) by William A. Percy
- The Greeks and Greek Love (2007) by James N. Davidson
Middle Ages
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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)
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
Early self-ID and activism
[edit]20th Century (pre-Stonewallish)
[edit]- Gay New York by George Chauncey
Pre-Stonewallish Queer Culture
[edit]Slang, Euphemism, and Other Terminology
[edit]- Category:LGBT_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
[edit]- 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.[a] There's also a possible link of "non-earthly" love being reclaimed as a more positive variant of "unnatural".
- 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,[b] Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde
- Literary figures[c]: 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")
- ^ My suspicions are related in part (but not completely) to Frederick the Great's gayngstiest poem, even though that's almost certainly about the muse, but if nothing else I wonder if it could have influenced Ulrichs.
- ^ "Lesbian" and "sapphic" were popularized as terms for female homosexuality in the late 19th century
- ^ Queerness was also often imputed to/assumed about their authors
Misdirection
[edit]Convenient Ambiguity
[edit]Books
- Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
Locales
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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:
Internal Debate
[edit]Constructionist
[edit]- Sexual orientation#Social constructionism
- The History of Sex by Michel Foucault
- How to Do the History of Homosexuality by David M. Halperin
- The Making of the Modern Homosexual by Kenneth Plummer
- The construction of homosexuality by David F. Greenberg
Essentialist
[edit]- The Myth of the Modern Homosexual by Rictor Norton
- "Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories" (PDF). by John Boswell
Trans Identities
[edit]- Manion, Jen , "Language, Acts, and Identity in LGBT History" , in The Routledge History of Queer America ed. Don Romesburg (Abingdon: Routledge, 28 Mar 2018)
Issues among mainstream historians
[edit]Western-centrism and non-Western queer identities
[edit]Sundry sources of related interest
[edit]- 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.