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- Week 1: Theories of Sexuality
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- Week 11: American Gay Worlds in the Twentieth Century
- Week 15: Marriage Equality and Queer Futures
- Week 2: Ancient Greek Pederasty
- Week 3: Female Homoeroticism and Male Sexual Deviance
- Week 4: Platonic Love
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Author Archives: Abby L
The Goals of the Future: What’s Next for LGBT Equality
In response to Kayla’s blog post, I’d like to agree and also add to some of the points that she made. It is true that while the LGBT community has made great strides in recent years, the members benefitting most … Continue reading
Class Acceptance in Harlem
Harlem was known as Manhattan’s most prominent black neighborhood in the early 1900’s. The gay community in Harlem exhibited a different culture from the gay cultures of other neighborhoods in New York City, such as Greenwich Village. In Harlem, homosexuality … Continue reading
Born This Way?
When looking at theories of sexuality, Ellis and Symonds define the characteristics of the male and female invert before delving into the topic of whether inversion can be cured. They claim that congenital inversion has no cure, while inversion that … Continue reading
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The Internal Conflict of John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds was a widely-read writer who lived from 1840 to 1893. He was highly educated at Harrow School and studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford. Symonds, while a wealthy and successful upstanding man on the outside, differed on … Continue reading
Female Transvestism and the Utilization of Class Privilege
In the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, those who had lesbian sex were not especially persecuted. However, women who both engaged in lesbian sex and rejected all other aspects of their roles as females suffered from persecution, namely those from lower … Continue reading
Same-sex desire and social class: assertions of power in the Renaissance
In the Roman Empire, sexuality was not labeled as homosexual or heterosexual. Instead, the Romans regarded sex as more of a display of gender roles. There was the penetrator and the penetrated, and often the penetrator used sex as an … Continue reading
Lesbian Desire Compared to Pederasty
In Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans, Leaena recounts her experience with two rich lesbian women. Megilla, or Megillus, and her wife Demonassa both express a desire for Leaena, who eventually lets them be physical with her. This interaction between the … Continue reading
The Ladder of Love
In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates delivers a speech where he describes and defines what Eros is. In his speech, he introduces a character Diotima, a woman who educates Socrates on the ladder of love. According to Socrates, “love is the desire … Continue reading
Sapphic Imagery of Nature
In Sappho’s poetry, she employs the use of imagery in order to express her love for women and their beauty. Many of the images used equate flowers or aspects of nature to female sexuality. These metaphors of nature allow us … Continue reading
Archaic Pederasty and Conditional Love
While examining male archaic lyric poets from the 6th to early 5th century BCE, lyrics centered around pederasty and pederastic relationships show an intense desire. The poets, taking the role of erastai, write many verses declaring their love for boys. … Continue reading
