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Tag Archives: same-sex desire
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
Persecution of Women in Same-Sex Relationships
The notion that all women were persecuted for being in relationships with other women is simply untrue. The women who did not attempt to look masculine or take on a male role would usually come out unscathed in same-sex relationships, … 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
