The First Flowering of Gay Culture in Britain was in the Elizabethan Age – just a few decades after the dissolution of the monasteries. In the 1530s, Henry VIII had found the cloisters full of buggers, catamites and concubines – ejected from the holy pathways, the buggers had to make their own communities – theyContinue reading “The First Flowering of Gay Culture in Britain”
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Whitman’s Comrades
In 19th century America, Walt Whitman dreamed of unlocking the potential in every man’s heart to love other men. He did not envision male same-sex attraction as a minority phenomenon. “Whitman knew that capacity for same-sex love lies in every man’s heart. He had seen it and experienced it firsthand in the war hospitals. ItContinue reading “Whitman’s Comrades”
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