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I did a Master's dissertation on Greek Homosexuality at the
University of London, and a long paper on Medieval
homosexuality [45 pages] as part of my doctoral studies at Fordham.
I am a now history graduate student at
Fordham working on my doctoral dissertation on Sanctity and Gender
in 9th and 10th century Byzantium! I also teach ancient history at
Queensborough Community College and modern western history at
Brooklyn College. I added the non-ancient, non-medieval stuff
because I intend to teach courses on queer history at some stage.
Paul Halsall
Halsall@murray.fordham.edu
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Paul Halsall
Homosexuality in History - An [Partially] Annotated Bibliography
This bibliography is arranged according to subject
matter. It originated in a bibliography of medieval
homosexuality and so has references to the wider
field of the history of all sexuality in this period.
A few items appear more than once. Most of the
annotations are mine, but some are from the
bibliographies whence came the reference.
This was compiled in 1990. There are other important works
published since then. A good way to keep up is to consult the
running bibliographies in the Journal of the History of
Sexuality.
I Bibliographical Resources
An Annotated Bibliography of Homosexuality and Other
Stigmatized Behavior, ed. Vern Bullough, Dorr
Legg, Barry Elcano et al, (New York: Garland,
1976)
Arts and Humanities Citations Index, (Philadelphia:
Institute for Scientific Information)
[complicated and complete]
Bibliography of Prostitution, ed. Barry Elcano & Vern
Bullough, (New York: Garland, 1976)
A Gay Bibliography: Eight Bibliographies on
Lesbianism and Male Homosexuality, ed. Jonathan
Katz, (New York: 1975)
Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography, ed. M.
Weinberg & A. Bell, (New York: 1972)
"Homosexuality and History: An Annotated
Bibliography", ed. William Parker, Journal of
Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 191-211
[123 entries. Well annotated]
Homosexuality and the Judeo-Christian Tradition: An
Annotated Bibliography, ed. Tom Horner, (New
York: ATLA - Bibliographical Series No. 5, 1981)
Homosexuality: A Reasearch Guide, ed. Wayne Dynes, (New York:
Garland, 1987).
[Excellent, excellent, excellent; For works up to 1987
this is a must.]
Homosexuality: Bibliography Supplement, ed. William
Parker, (Metuchen, NJ.: Scarecrow Press, 1977)
Homosexuality: A Selective Bibliography of Over 3000
Items, ed. William Parker, (Metuchen, NJ.:
Scarecrow Press, 1971)
Humanities Index, (New York: H.W. Wilson, 1974-)
[Complete and easy to use]
International Medieval Bibliography, ed. R.S. Hoyt &
P.H. Sawyer, (Leeds & Minneapolis: 1967- )
[Contains references in foreign languages. Easy
to use. Needs a better indexing system]
The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography 2nd ed.,
(Reno, Nevada: The Ladder, 1975)
Medieval Studies: A Bibliographical Guide, ed.
Everrett V. Crosby et al, (New York: Garland,
1983)
Recently Published Articles, pub. by American
Historical Association
[complete, but no index and so difficult and
time-consuming]
Women in Western European History: A Select
Chronological, Geographical and Topical
Bibliography: Vol I: Antiquity to the French
Revolution, (1982)
Also useful bibliographies below in Adam, Boswell,
Bullough (Sexual Variance), Goodich
(Unmentionable Vice), Greenberg, Greenberg &
Bystryn and Kuster & Cormier.
Many academic journals now accept articles on
homosexuality. Of special interest are:-
Gender and History
Journal of Homosexuality
Journal of Sex Research
Journal of the History of Sexuality
Jahrbuch fur Sexuelle Zwischenstufen, (Leipzig: Max
Spohr, 1899-1923)
Salmagundi
Signs
II History of Homosexuality - General Works
Aries, Philippe & Andre Bejin, eds., Western
Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and
Present, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985; orig. pub. as
Sexualities Occidentales, Paris: Editions du
Seuil/Communications, 1982)
The Bible, References to homosexuality (some only
possible):- Old Testament: Genesis 13:13, 18:20-
22, 19:4-8. 19:24-25, Leviticus 18:22, 20:13,
Deuteronomy 23:17-18, Judges 19:22-24, Ruth 1:16-
17, II Samuel 1:26, I Kings 14:24, 15:12, 22:46,
II Kings 23:7, Proverbs 10:9
New Testament: Romans 1:24-32, I Corinthians 6:9-
10, Galatians 5:19-21, I Timothy 1:9-10, II
Peter 2:6, Jude 1:7, Revelations 21:8, 22:15
Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, Gisela, Tabu: Homosexualitat:
Die Geschichte eines Vorurteils, (Frankfurt:
Fisher, 1978)
Boswell, John, "Towards the Long View: Revolutions,
Universals and Sexual Categories", Salmagundi 58-
59 (Fall 1982-Winter 1981), pp. 89-113
[Opposes the view that homosexuality as a
category only came to exist in the modern
period.]
Bullough, Vern L., "Homosexuality and the Medical
Model", Journal of Homosexuality 1:6 (1975), pp.
99-110
Bullough, Vern L., "Sex in History: A Virgin Field",
Journal of Sex Research 8 (1972), pp. 101-16,
repr. in Vern L. Bullough, Sex, Society and
History, (New York: Science History
Publications, 1976)
Bullough, Vern L., Sexual Variance in Society and
History, (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1976)
[Large scale survey of both western and eastern
cultures in all historical periods.
Groundbreaking work, but only a beginning. Has
one of few discussions of Byzantine
homosexuality. Has good references and foot
notes]
Bullough, Vern L., Sex, Society and History, (New
York: Science History Publications, 1976)
Bullough, Vern L., Homosexuality: A History, (New
York: New American Library, 1979)
Coote, Stephen, ed., The Penguin Book of Homosexual
Verse, (Harmondsworth: Allen Lane, Penguin,
1983)
[Poetry from Homer to today]
Cory, Donald W., Homosexuality: A Cross Cultural
Approach, (New York: Julian Press, 1956)
Crompton, Louis, "Gay Genocide: From Leviticus to
Hitler" in Louie Crew, ed., The Gay Academic,
(Palm Springs, Ca.: Etc. Publications, 1978),
pp. 67-91
[Polemical title. Evidence of 200+ gay men and women
put to death in the past, as well as 100-400,000
during the Third Reich. The German figures are
very inflated.]
Daniel, M. & A. Baudry, Les Homosexuels, (Tournai:
1973)
Daniel, Marc, "A Methodology for the Study of
Historical aspects of Homosexuality", ONE
Institute Quarterly 3 (1960), pp. 268-280
deBecker, Raymond, The Other Face of Love, (New York:
Grove Press, 1969; & London: Sphere Books),
trans. Margaret Crosland and Alan Daventry
[Survey from Ancient times to now, with
concentration on Christian world from early
middle ages. Contains 172 pictures.]
Ellis, Havelock, "Sexual Inversion",in Studies in
the Psychology of Sex 2 vols., (New York: Random
House, 1905), Vol 1, pp. 1-64
[One of the earliest pieces of work. Looks at
where and when homosexuality has been tolerated,
and lists famous gays.]
Fleming, Thomas, "Criminalizing a Marginal
Community",in Deviant Designations, ed. Thomas
Fleming and L.A. Visono, (Toronto: Butterworths,
198?)
Fone, Byrne R.S., "Some Notes Toward a History of Gay
People", The Advocate no. 259 (Jan 25, 1979),
pp. 17-19 & no. 260 (Feb 28, 1979), pp. 11-13
[Argues that there is material for a history of
homosexuality, at least for some times.]
Fone, Byrne R.S., ed., Hidden Heritage: Historry and
the Gay Imagination: An Anthology, (New York:
Avocation Publishers, 1980)
[Eclectic selection of sources and commentators
covering Greece, Christianity, the middle ages
and the 18th and 19th centuries. Some are not
easily available elsewhere such as J.A. Symonds'
"The Dantesque and Platonic Ideals of Love"]
Foucault, Michel, History of Sexuality, Vol I: An
Introduction, (New York: Pantheon, 1978)
[Almost more like a meditation than history.
Leading French structuralist applies his view of
human society, already seen in his history of
madness, to sexuality. Argues that sexuality is
"constructed" in each society, in a similar
manner to language/grammar. This goes against
Boswell's idea of "homosexuality" as a
continuing part of the human condition.
Foucault's ideas, along with Levi-Strauss's have
heavily influenced other modern gay historians
such as Weeks and Katz, who however, set the
formation of modern homosexual consciousness at
different periods. The conflict between Boswell
and the others is as much an issue of philosophy
as history.]
Foucault, Michel, History of Sexuality, Vol II
Garde, Noel I., Jonathan to Gide: The Homosexual in
History, (New York: Vantage Press, 1964)
[Biographical sketches of 303 men in
chronological orders. Gives the refs. that
justify each inclusion.]
Gilbert, Arthur N., "Conceptions of Homosexuality and
Sodomy in Western History", Journal of
Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 57-68
[Discusses two approaches to history of
homosexuality: to look at famous individuals; or
to look at what was the (hostile) view of
society.]
Greenberg, David F., The Construction of
Homosexuality, (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1988)
[Recent exposition of the social construction
school. Has an extensive historical survey]
Hirschfeld, Magnus, Die Transvestiten, (Berlin:
Alfred Pulvermacher, 1910)
Hirschfeld, Magnus, Die Homosexualitat 2nd ed.,
(Berlin: Louis Marcus, 1914, 1920)
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Love That Dared Not Speak
its Name: A Candid History of Homosexuality in
Britain, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970)
[From William II to the present Queen.]
Karlen, Arno, Sexuality and Homosexuality: A New
View, (New York: W.W. Norton, 1971)
[Early overview. No footnotes, Superseded by
Bullough's Sexual Variance.]
Kirsch, John, & James Rodman, "The Natural History of
Homosexuality", Yale Scientific Magazine 51:3
(1977), pp. 7-13
Lamm, N., "Judaism and the Modern Attitude to
Homosexuality", in Jewish Bioethics, ed. F.
Rosner & J.D. Bloch, (New York: Sanhedrin Press,
Hebrew Publishing Co, 1979), pp. 197-218
Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen, eds., The
Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays,
(New York & London: Harrington Park Press,
1985), repr. of Historical Perspectives on
Homosexuality (1981), which was a repr. of
Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980)
[Very useful edition of interdisciplinary
journal. Many of the articles are cited
elsewhere. The publishers republish the issues
of this journal as books.]
Lloyde, Robin, "The History of Boy Prostitution" in
For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America,
(New York: Vanguard Press, 1976; paperback, New
York: Ballantine)
[Superficial discussion of boy prostitution
through history.]
McNeill, John, The Church and the Homosexual 3rd ed.,
(New York: 1988)
Mayne, Xavier (pseud. of Edward I.P. Stevenson), The
Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a
Problem in Social Life, (New York: Arno Press,
1975, originally pub. privately 1908)
[Survey of Homosexuality from early times,
especially amongst rulers, aristocrats,
soldiers, athletes, religious, and intellectual
leaders. A very early American study.]
Padoug, Robert, "Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing
Sexuality in History", Radical History Review 20
pp. 2-23
Quill, Zachary, Homosexuality Throughout the Ages,
(Los Angeles: Wiz Books, 1969)
Rattray Taylor, G., Sex in History, (New York:
Vanguard Press, 1954)
Rattray Taylor, G., "Historical and Mythological
Aspects of Homosexuality" in Judd Marmor, ed.,
Sexual Inversion: The Multiple Roots of
Homosexuality, (New York: Basic Books, 1965)
[Thinks source material for a history of
homosexuality is only available from 17th
century. Later writers seem to have proved him
pessimistic.]
Robinson, Victor, ed., Encyclopaedia Sexualis: A
Comprehensive Encyclopaedia-Grammar of the
Sexual Sciences, (New York: Dingwall-Rock, 1936)
Rowse, Alfred, L., Homosexuals in History:
Ambivalence in Society, Literature and the Arts,
(New York: Macmillan, 1977)
[Classic example of biographical approach to
homosexuality in history. Believes that
homosexuals are more creative.]
Schlick, J & M.V. Zimmermann, The Homosexual in Civil
and Religious Societies, (title is in French)
{Reviewed in Archives de Sciences Sociales des
Religions 2(64) (1987), p. 327}
Sole, Jacque, L'amour en Occident a l'epoque moderne,
(Paris: Albin Michel, 1976)
Vanggaard, Thorkil, Phallos: A Symbol and Its History
in the Male World, (New York: International
Universities Press, 1973)
[Includes information on Scandinavia.]
Young, Ian, The Male Homosexual in Literature,
(Metuchen, NJ.: Scarecrow Press, 1975)
III Classical Antiquity
A. Sources
Aeschines, Against Timarchus
Aristophanes, Clouds, Frogs, Birds, Knights, Wasps,
Thesmophoriadzusae
Aristotle, Nichomacean Ethics
Plato, Symposium, Phaedrus, Laws, Republic,
Sappho, Poems
Theognis, Poems
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, 4.53 (Harmodius and
Aristogetion)
B. Works
Bethe, E., "Die Dorische Knaben Liebe", Rheinisches
Museum fur Philologie 62 (1907), pp. 438-475
Boardman, John, Athenian Black Figure Vases, (London:
Thames & Hudson, 19 )
Boardman, John, Athenian Red Figure Vases, (London:
Thames & Hudson, 19 )
Brelich, A., Paides e Parthenoi, (Rome: 1969)
Bremmer, J., "An Enigmatic Indo-European Rite:
Paederasty", Arethusa 13 (1980), pp 279-298
Buffiere, Felix, Eros Adolescent: La pederastie dans
la Grece antique, (Paris, 197?)
[Distinguishes between enobling pederasty and
vulgar homosexuality. Contains a lot of useful
information.]
Burkert, W., Greek Religion
Cassio, A.C., "Post Classical Lesbiai", Classical
Quarterly 33:1 (1983), pp. 296-297
Cohen, D., "Law, Society and Homosexuality in
Classical Athens", Past and Present 117 (1987),
pp. 3-21
Compton, Louis, "What Do You Say to Someone Who
Claims that Homosexuality Caused the Fall of
Greece and Rome?", Christopher Street (March,
1978), pp. 49-52
Cory, Donald W., The Homosexual in Antiquity: A
Subjective Approach, (New York: 1952)
Davis, J.K., Democracy and Classical Athens
Delcourt, Maurice, Hermaphrodite: Myths and Rites of
the Bisexual Figure in Classical Antiquity,
trans. Jennifer Nicolson, (London: Studio, 1961)
Delcourt, Maurice, Hermaphroditea: Recherche sur
l'etre double promoteur de la fertilite dans la
monde classique, (Brussels: n.p., 1966)
Devereaux, George, "Greek Pseudo-homosexuality and
the Greek Miracle", Symbolae Osloenses 13
(1967), pp. 70-92
[Argues, from a Freudian point of view that
there is a link between homosexuality and
extended adolescence, and that homosexuality and
Greek culture's freshness are related.]
Devereaux, George, "The Nature of Sappho's Siezure in
FR 31 LP as Evidence of her Inversion",
Classical Quarterly 20 (1970), pp. 17-31
Dover, Kenneth J., "Eros and Nomos", Bulletin of the
Institute of Classical Studies 2 (1964), pp. 31-
42
Dover, Kenneth J., "Classical Greek Attitudes to
Sexual Behaviour", Arethusa 6 (1973)
Dover, Kenneth J., Greek Homosexuality, (Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard UP, 1978; paperback, New York:
Random House)
[Standard work on ancient Greek homosexuality.]
Elia, John P., "History, Etymology and Fallacy:
Attitudes Toward Male Masturbation in the
Ancient Western World", Journal of Homosexuality
14:3-4 (1987), pp. 1-19
Fisher, Saul H., "A Note on Male Homosexuality and
the Role of Women in Ancient Greece", in Judd
Marmor, ed. Sexual Inversion: The Multiple Roots
of Homosexuality, (New York: Basic Books, 1965),
pp. 165-172
Flaceliere, Robert, "Homosexuality", in Love in
Ancient Greece trans. by James Cleugh, (New
York: Crown Publishers, 1962;paperback, New
York: Macfadden Books)
Fornara, C.W., "The Cult of Aristogeiton and
Harmodius", Philologus 114, (1970)
Gonfroys, F., Un fait de civilisation meconnu:
l'homosexualite a Rome, (Poitiers: Thesis, 1972)
Guthrie, W.K.C., History of Greek Philosophy, Vols
III & IV
Halperin, D.M., "100 Years of Homosexuality (Patzer
on Classical Athens)", Diacritics 16:2 (1986),
pp. 34-45
Halperin, D.M., "Plato and Erotic Reciprocity",
Classical Antiquity 5:1 (1986), pp. 60-80
Halperin, D.M., One Hundred Years of Homosexuality,
(London: Routledge, 1990)
[A very important, if tendentious book]
Heckel, Waldemar, "The `Boyhood Friends' of Alexander
the Great", Emerita 53:2 (1985), pp. 285-289
Hooker, J.T., The Ancient Spartans
Humphry, S.C., The Family, Women and Death
Huxley, G.L., "Onomakles and the Alopekonnesians
(Lesbian Antiquities in the Oxyrhyncus-Papyrus
3711)", Journal of Hellenic Studies 107 (1987),
pp. 187-188
Johns, C., Sex or Symbol: Erotic Images in Greece and
Rome
Koch-Harnack, G., Knabenliebe und Tiergeschenke,
(Berlin, 1983)
Licht, Hans (pseud. of Paul Brandt), "Male
Homosexuality", in Sexual Life in Ancient
Greece, trans. J.H. Freez, (London: Routledge &
Sons, 1932), pp. 411-498
Malul, Meir, Touching the Sexual Organs as an Oath
Ceremony in an Akkadian Letter", Vetus Test.
37:4 (1987), pp. 491-92
Marrou, Henri I., "Pederasty in Classical
Education",in A History of Education in
Antiquity, trans. by George Lamb, (New York: New
American Library, 1956), pp. 50-62
Meier, M.H.E., "Paderastie", Allgemeine Encyclopadie
und Kunsten 167 vols, (Leipzig: Brockhaus,
1837), Vol 4, pp. 149-188
Mouratiadis, John, "The Origin of Nudity in Greek
Athletics", Journal of Sport History 12:3
(1985), pp. 213-232
Murray, Oswyn, Early Greece
Pacion, Stanley J., "Sparta: An Experiment in State
Sponsored Homosexuality", Medical Aspects of
Human Sexuality 4 (April, 1970), pp. 28-32
Pacion, Stanley J., "The Life of Nero: Sex and the
Fall of the Roman Empire", Medical Aspects of
Human Sexuality 5 (March, 1971), pp. 171-185
Patzer, H., Die Griechische Knabenliebe, (Wiesbaden:
1982)
Pinney, G.F., "For the Heroes Are at Hand", Journal
of Hellenic Studies 104 (1984), pp. 181-183
Papalas, Anthony, J., "Prostitution in Ancient
Greece", Drum 28 (Jan 1968), pp. 19-21
Pogey-Castries, L.R. de, Histoire de l'amour Grec
dans l'antiquite, (Paris: Stenhal et Cie, 1930)
Rouselle, Aline, Porneia: On Desire and the Body in
Antiquity. trans. Felicia Pheasant, (Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1988; first pub. as Porneia,
Paris: Presses Universitaire de France, 1983)
Sergent, B., La Homosexualite dans la Mythologie
Greque, (Paris, 1984), trans. as Homosexuality
in Greek Myth, (New York: 198?)
Slater, Philip, The Glory of Hera, (Boston: 1968)
Symonds, John Addington, Studies in Sexual Inversion:
"A Study of Greek Ethics" and "A Study of Modern
Ethics", (New York: Medical Press. 1974?;
originally published privately 1896 & 1901)
[Early study by Englishman.]
Sweet, Waldo E., "Protection of the Genitals in Greek
Athletics", Ancient World 11:1-2 (1985), pp. 43-
52
Ungaretti, John R., "Pederasty, Heroism and the
Family in Classical Greece", Journal of
Homosexuality 3 (1978), pp. 291-300
Veyne, Paul, "Homosexuality in Ancient Rome", in
Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past
and Present, ed. Philippe Aries & Andre Bejin,
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1985; first pub. as
Sexualities Occidentales, Paris: Editions du
Seuil/Communications, 1982), pp 26-35
Vida-Naquet, P., La Chasseur-noir, (Paris, 1981)
William, Craig, Roman Homosexuality [Yale Ph.D; 199?]
Winkler, John, The Constraints of Desire, (London: Routledge, 1990)
IV The Middle Ages - Sources
Alan of Lille, The Plaint of Nature (De Planctu
Naturae), trans. James J. Sheridan, (Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Medieaval Studies, 1980)
Bachelor Jr. E., Homosexuality and Ethics, (New York:
Pilgrim Press, 1980)
[Excerpts from authors from Plato to modern
times on ethical issues]
Baudri de Bourgueil, Les Oeuvres poetiques de Baudri
de Bourgueil, ed. Phyllis Abrahams, (Paris:
Librarie Ancienne Honore Champion, 1926) (repr;
Geneva, Slatkine Reprints, 1974)
Bieler, Ludwig, The Irish Penitentials, (Dublin:
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1963)
[Includes Latin text. Homosexuality pp. 66-67.
Does not translate parts he seems to consider
vulgar.]
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, trans. John A.
Carlyle, Thomas Okey & P.H. Wicksteed, (New
York: Random House, 1950; original publication
details not given)
[Inferno Cantos xi, xiv, xv, and Purgatorio xxvi
all possibly deal with sodomy.]
Francis, W.Nelson, ed., The Book of Vices and
Virtues, Early English Text Society Vol 217,
(London: Oxford UP, 1942)
[Edited from 3 extant texts of the French of
Lorens d'Orleans Somme Le Roi - a vernacular
penitential. Homosexuality p.43)
Mansi, J.D.: Sacrum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima
Collectio, (Florence & Venice: 1759-1798)
Peter Damian, Liber Gomorrhanius in MPL 145, cols.
159-190, and as Book of Gomorrah: An Eleventh
Century Treatise Against Clerical Homosexual
Practice, trans. Pierre J. Payer, (Waterloo,
Ont.: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1982)
[One of the strongest attacks in the middle ages
on homosexuality.]
Stehling, Thomas, trans., Medieval Latin Poems of
Male Love and Friendship, (New York: Garland)
[Gay medieval literature from the Roman Empire
to 1300. Alcuin, Ausonius, Luxorius, Abelard,
Baudri or Bourgueil, Hilderbert of Lauardin.]
McNeill, John & Helena Gamer, Medieval Handbooks of
Penance: A Translation of the Principal "libri
poenitentatles" and Selections from Related
Documents, (New York: Columbia UP, 1938)
[Does not give Latin texts.]
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, (New York & London:
Blackfriars with McGraw-Hill & Eyre and
Spottiswoode, 1968)
[On sodomy 2.2.154.12. Aquinas rates it worse
than fornication, incest or rape, but better
than bestiality.]
V The Middle Ages - Commentaries and Articles on the
Above and Other Source Material
a) General
Birkhan, Helmut, "Qu'est-ce qui est preferable de
l'heterosexualite ou de l'homosexualite? Le
temoignage d'un poeme latin" in Amour, mariage
et transgressions au moyen age: Actes du
Colloque des 24-27 Mars 1983, ed. Danielle
Buschinger & Andre Crespin, Universite de
Picardie, Centre d'Etudes Medievales,
(Goppingen: Kummerle Verlag, 1984)
Blum, O.J., St. Peter Damien: His Teaching on
Spiritual Life, (Washington, D.C.:1947)
Bond, Gerald A., "`Locus Amoris': The Poetry of
Baudri of Bourgueil and the Formation of the
Ovidian Subculture", Traditio 47 (1986), pp. 143-
193 [DI.T67]
Cadden, Joan, "It Takes All Kinds: Sexuality and
Gender Differences in Hildegard of Bingen's
`Book of Compound Medicine", Traditio 40 (1984),
pp. 149-174
Curtius, E.R., European Literature and the Latin
Middle Ages, trans. Willard R. Trask, Bollingen
Series 36, (New York: Pantheon, 1953)
[pp. 115 ff. on homosexuality]
Forsyth, Ilene, "The Ganymede Capital at Vezelay",
Gesta: International Center of Medieval Art 15:1-
2 (1976), pp. 241-246
Harley M.P., "Narcissus, Hermaphroditus, and Attis:
Ovidian Lovers at the Fontaine d'Amours in
Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la Rose", PMLA
101 (1986), pp. 324-337
Herman, Gerald, "The "Sin against Nature" and its
Echos in Medieval French Literature", Annuale
Medievale 17 (1976), pp. 70-87
Laeuchli, Samuel, Power and Sexuality: The Emergence
of Canon Law at the Synod of Elvira,
(Philadelphia: 1972)
Latzke, Theresa, "Die Ganymed-Epstein des Hilerius",
Mittelateinisches Jahrbuch 18 (1983), pp. 131-
159
Leclerq, Jean, "L'Amitié dans les lettres au moyen
age", Revue du moyen age latin 1 (1945), pp. 391-
410
Lepage, Yvan G., "Francois Villon et
l'homosexualite", Le Moyen Age 92:1 (1986), pp.
69-89
Levy, R., "L'Allusion a la Sodomie dans Eneas",
Philological Quarterly 27 (1948)
[Looks at allusions to sodomy in a twelfth century
romance.]
McEvoy, James, "Notes on the Prologue of St. Aelred
of Rievaulx's `De Spirituali Amacita', with a
Translation", Traditio 37 (1981), pp. 149-174
Newall, V., "Folklore and Male Homosexuality",
Folklore 97:2 (1986), pp. 123-147
Payer, Pierre J., Sex and the Penitentials: Formation
of a Sexual Code 550-1150, (Toronto: Univ. of
Toronto Press, 1984)
Wetherbee, Winthrop, "The Function of Poetry in `De
Planctu Naturae" of Alain de Liile", Traditio 25
(1969), pp. 86-125
[Unsympathetic to homosexuality. See pp. 102-
105]
Ziolkowski, Jan, Alan of Lille's Grammar of Sex: The
Meaning of Gramma to a Twelfth Century
Intellectual, Speculum Anniversary Monographs
10, (Cambridge, Mass.: Medieval Academy of
America, 1985)
[review, Speculum 63 (1988), p. 1015. Alan
discussed homosexuality using a metaphor of bad
grammar.]
b) Chaucer
Field, P.J.C., "Chaucer's Merchant and the Sin
Against Nature", Notes and Queries March 1970,
p. 84
Frese, Delores Warwick, "The Homoerotic Underside in
Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale",
Michigan Academician 10:2 (1977), pp. 143-150
Karlen, Arno, "The Homosexual Heresy", Chaucer Review
6:1 (1971), pp. 44-63
McAlpine, M.E., "Pardoner's Homosexuality and How it
Matters", PMLA 95 (1980), pp. 8-22
c) Dante
Armour, Peter, "Dante's Brunetto: the Paternal
Paterine", Italian Studies 38 (1983), pp. 1-38
[argues sin of Brunetto was heresy not sodomy]
Kay, Richard, "The Sin of Brunetto Latini", Medieval
Studies 31 (1969), pp. 262-286
Kay, Richard, "Dante's Unnatural Lawyer: Fancesco
D"accusro in Inferno XV", Studia Gratiana 15
(1972), pp. 149-200
[Suggests Inferno XV is not about sodomy, but
other forms of "unnaturalness". This would mean
Dante put no one in hell for sodomy.]
Mussetter, Sally, "`Ritornare a lo suo principio':
Dante and the Sin of Brunetto Latini",
Philological Quarterly 63:4 (1984), pp. 431-448
Pezard, Andre, Dante sous la pluie de feu, (Paris:
Librarie philosophique J. Vien, 1950)
Radcliff-Umstead, Douglas, "Erotic Sin in the Divine
Comedy", in Human Sexuality in the Middle Ages
and Renaissance, ed. D. Radcliff-Umstead,
(Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Publications on
the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1978), pp. 41-
96
Symonds, John Addington, "The Dantesque and Platonic
Ideals of Love", (excerpts) in Hidden Heritage:
History and the Gay Imagination: An Anthology,
ed. Byrne R.S. Fone, (New York: Avocation
Publishers, 1980)
Verschuer, U.F. von, "Die Homosexuelle in Dante's
Gottlicher Komodie", Jahrbuch fur Sexuelle
Zwischenstufen 7 (1906), pp. 353-363
VI The Middle Ages - History of Sexuality &
Homosexuality
Barber, Malcolm, The Trial of the Templars,
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978)
Beriac, F., "La Persecution des Lepreux dans la
France Meridionale", Le Moyen Age 93:2 (1987),
pp. 203-222
[Discusses collective aggresiveness against the
`other'.]
Biller, P.A., "Birth Control, the Medieval West",
Past and Present 94 (1982), pp. 3-26
Brooke, Christopher, The Medieval Idea of Marriage,
(New York: Oxford UP, 1989)
Brucker, Gene, Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and
Marriage in Renaissance Florence, (Berkeley &
Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1986)
[Author calls this microhistory. It is the
account of a 1455 law case on the clandestine
marriage of a nobleman and poorer woman. It
shows the sort of evidence available in court
records for sexual history.]
Brundage, James, "Let Me Count the Ways: Canonists
and Theologians Contemplate Coital Positions",
Journal of Medieval History 10:2 (1984), pp. 81-
93
Brundage, James, "Politics of Sodomy", (forthcoming,
promised in his Law, Sex p. 473, n.288)
Cadden, Joan, "Medieval Scientific and Medical Views
of Sexuality: Questions of Propriety",
Medeavilia et Humanistica 14 (1986), pp. 157-171
Cleugh, James, Love Locked Out: An Examination os
Sexuality during the Middle Ages, (New York:
Crown, 1963)
Derouet-Besson, Marie-Claude, "`Inter dous scopulas'
Hypothese sur la place de la sexualite dans les
models de la representations du monde du XI
siecle", Annales 36:5 (1981), pp. 922-945
Dinzebacher, P., "Pour un histoire de l'amour au
Moyen Age", Moyen Age 93:2 (1987(, pp. 223-240
Epstein, L.M., Sex Laws and Customs in Judaism, (New
York: 1967)
Flandrin, J.L., "Contraception, Mariage et Relations
Amoureuses dans l'Occident Chretien", Annales
ESC 56 (1969), pp. 1370-1390
Flandrin, J.L., "Marriage tardif et vie sexualle:
Discussions et hypotheses de recherche", Annales
ESC 59 (1972), pp. 131-178
Flandrin, J.L., "Repression and Change in the Sexual
Life of Young People in Medieval and Early
Modern Times", Journal of Family History 2
(1977)
Goodich, Michael, The Unmentionable Vice:
Homosexuality in the Late Medieval Period,
(Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-Clio, 1979)
[Much criticised book that attempts an overview.
It actually does quite a good job, and has an
extensive bibliography and a 30 page
translation/extract from inquisition records of
Jacques Fournier in the 13th century.
{Reviews - AHR 1980, p.375; Speculum (1980), pp.
121-122; Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (2
separate reviews)}
Halverson, John, "Amour and Eros in the Middle Ages",
The Psychoanalytic Review 57 (1970), pp. 245-262
Hernandez, Lodovico (pseud. of Fernand Fleuret &
Louis Perceau), Les Proces de Sodomie aux XVe,
XVIe et XVIIe Siecle, (Paris: 1920)
Jeay, Madeleine, "Sur quelque coutumes sexuelles du
moyen age", in L'Erotisme au Moyen Age: Etudes
presentees au IIe Colloque de l'Institut
d"Etudes Medievales, 3-4 Avril 1976, ed. Roy,
Bruno, (Montreal: Ed. Aurore, 1977)
Kuster, Harvey J., "Gelijkgeslachtelijke liefde in de
middeleeuwen", Spiegel Historiael 10 (1975), pp
232-237
Kuster, Harvey J., "L'Amour physique unisexuel au
moyen age", Arcadie, (Paris: 1976), pp. 665-670
Kuster, Harvey J., "Homoerotik in de middeleewse
poezia", Maatstaf 24 (1976), pp. 40-48
Kuster, Harvey J., Over Homoseksualiteit in
Middeleeuws West-Europa, (Utrecht: Univ. of
Utrecht Dissertation, 1977)
Kuster, Harvey J., "Homoseksualiteit in de
middeleeuwen", Huisarts en Praktijk, (Utrecht:
1980), pp. 13-16
Kuster, Harvey & Raymond J. Cormier, "Old Views and
New Trends: Observations on the Problem of
Homosexuality in the Middle Ages", Studii
Medievali 25:2 (1985)
[Overview of recent work, based on Boswell and
Kuster's dissertation.]
Lea, H.C., History of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the
Christian Church 3rd ed., (London: 1907)
Legman, Gershon, The Guilt of the Templars, (New
York: Basic Books, 1966)
[Argues the Templars were a homosexual warrior
order, that their seal indicates pederasty, and
that homosexual rape was part of the intuition.
All open to question.]
Lemay, Helen Rodnite, "Human Sexuality in Twelfth-
through Fifteenth-Century Scientific Writing",
in Vern L. Bullough & James Brundage, Sexual
Practices and the Medieval Church, New Concepts
in Human Sexuality Series, (Prometheus Books,
1982)
[Discusses scientific writing on homosexuality
on pp. 194-197. She can only find two short
discussions, by William of Saliceto and Michael
Scot.]
Lentzen-Bonn, R., "Altercatio Ganimedis en Helene",
Mittelateinisches Jahrbuch 8 (1972), pp 161-187
Moore, R.I., The Formation of a Persecuting Society,
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1987)
[Briefly discusses homosexuality, but sets it in
the wider context of Jews, lepers, heretics and
other persecuted groups.]
Murray, Stephen & Kent Gerard, "Renaissance Sodomite
Subcultures?", in Among Men, Among Women:
Sociological and Historical Recognition of
Homosocial Arrangements, (Amsterdam: 1983)
Norton, Rictor, "Ganymede in Renaissance Literature",
Gay Sunshine 19 (Fall, 1973), p. 16
Roby, D., "Early Medieval Attitudes toward
Homosexuality", Gai Saber 1 (1977), pp. 67-71
Rosner, Fred, Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of
Maimonides, (New York: Ktav, 1984)
Roy, Bruno, ed., L'Erotisme au Moyen Age: Etudes
presentees au IIe Colloque de l'Institut
d"Etudes Medievales, 3-4 Avril 1976, (Montreal:
Ed. Aurore, 1977)
Saslow, J.M., Ganymede in the Renaissance:
Homosexuality in Art and Society
{Reviewed in: Source 6:3 (1987), pp. 34-35; Art
Bulletin 69:4 (1987), pp. 653-57; AHR 93:1
(1988), p.185}
Schwartz, Jerome, "Aspects of Androgny in the
Renaissance", in Human Sexuality in the Middle
Ages and Renaissance, ed. D. Radcliff-Umstead,
(Pittsburgh, Univ. of Pittsburgh Publications on
the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1978), pp. 121-
131
Small, R.C., "Is it True about the Templars", New
York Review of Books 8, (Feb 23, 1967), pp. 14-
15
Stehling, Thomas, "To Love a Medieval Boy", Journal
of Homosexuality 8 (1983), pp. 151-170
Stiller, Richard, "The Homosexual Crusader's [The
Templars]", Sexology 34 (Dec, 1967), pp. 305-307
Weeks, Jeffrey, "In days of yore when knights were
gay?", History Today 30 (July, 1980), p. 49
VII The Middle Ages - Christian Attitudes to
Homosexuality
Bailey, Derrick S., Sexual Relations in Christian
Thought, (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954)
Bailey, Derrick S., Homosexuality and the Western
Christian Tradition, (London: Longmans, Green,
1955;repr. Hamden, Ct.: Archon/Shoestring Press,
1975)
[Absolutely standard work by Anglican priest. No
bibliography but text gives best overview of
Church and secular legislation]
Bailey, Derrick S., "Homosexuality and Christian
Morals", in J. Tudor Rees & H.V. Usill They
Stand Apart: A Critical Study of the Problems of
Homosexuality, (London: Heinemann, 1955), pp. 36-
63
Boswell, John, Christianity, Social Tolerance and
Homosexuality, (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press,
1980)
[The single most important work by a serious
scholar. Proposes that homosexuals were accepted
before the 13th century, and then intolerance
sets in. Criticised by gay radicals for letting
the Church off the hook. Boswell rejects idea
that homosexual subcultures are a recent
development.]
{Reviewed by Sheehan, cited in this
bibliography}
Boswell, John, "The Origins of Christian Intolerance
of Homosexuality", (in Spanish), Cuadernos del
Norte 8:44 (1987), pp. 18-23
Bullough, Vern L. & James Brundage, Sexual Practices
and the Medieval Church, (New Concepts in Human
Sexuality Series) (Prometheus Books, 1982)
[Brundage is a major canon lawyer. Uses
quantative methods that are hair-raising at
times]
Coleman, Peter, Christian Attitudes to Homosexuality,
(London: SPCK, 1980)
Compton, Thomas, "Sodomy and Civil Doom: The History
of an Unchristian Tradition", Vector (Nov,
1975), pp. 23-27, 57-58
[Looks at Christian hostility in OT, NT, the
Fathers, Justinian, Charlemagne and Church
Councils]
Evans, Arthur, Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture:
A Radical View of Western Civilization and Some
of the People it Tried to Destroy, (Boston: Fag
Rag Books, 1978)
[Blames attacks on gays on Christianity, which
needs to be replaced with socialism.]
Fiske, Adelle, "Alcuin and Mystical Friendship",
Studii Medievali series 2, 3 (1961), pp. 551-575
Fiske, Adelle, Friends and Friendship in the Monastic
Tradition, (Cuernavaca: 1970)
Greenberg, D.E. & M.H. Bystrin, "Christian
Intolerance of Homosexuality", American Journal
of Sociology 88 (1982), pp. 515-548
Hays, R.B., "Relations Natural and Unnatural: A
Response to John Boswell's Exegesis of Romans
I", Journal of Religious Ethics 14 (1986), pp.
184-215
Johansson, Warren, "Ex parte Themis: The Historic
Guilt of the Christian Church", in
Homosexuality, Intolerance and Christianity, A
Critical Examination, (New York: Scholarship
Committe, Gay Academic Union, 1981)
Little, Lester K., "Pride Goes Before Avarice: Social
Change and Vices in Latin Christendom", American
Historical Review 76 (1971), pp. 16-49
[Discussion of the changes in the relative
seriousness of sins and why this happens.]
Lauritsen, John, "Culpa Ecclesiae: Boswell's
Dilemma",in Homosexuality, Intolerance and
Christianity: A Critical Examination, (New York:
Scholarship Committe, Gay Academic Union, 1981)
[Attack on Boswell's theory that the Church did
not create hatred of gays, by a leading
proponent of the theory that the Church was
responsible.]
Lea, H.C., "Unnatural Crime", in A History of the
Inquisition in Spain 4 vols., (New York:
Macmillan, 1922), Vol 4, pp. 361-377 (Chapter
16)
[1497-1123, finds 20 persons burned at the stake
and 48 "relaxed'.]
McGuire, B., "Love, Friendship and Sex in the 11th
Century: The Experience of Anselm", Studia
Theologia 28 (1974), pp. 111-155
[Looks at spiritual/erotic affections. Finds
Anselm unobsessed with male sexuality.]
McGuire, Brian P., "Monastic Friendship and
Toleration in Twelfth Century Cistercian Life",
in W. J. Shiels., ed., Monks, Hermits and the
Ascetic Tradition, Studies in Church History 22,
(London: 1985)
McGuire, B., "Looking Back on Friendship: Medieval
Experience and Modern Context", Cistercian
Studies 21:2 (1986), pp. 123-142
Martin, D., "The Perennial Canaanites: the Sin of
Homosexuality", Etc 41 (1984), pp. 340-361
Moos, Peter von, Hildebert von Lovardin 1056-1133:
Humanitas an der Schwelle des hofischen
Zetalters, (Stuttgart: 1965)
[pp. 236-239 on the cult of Ganymede]
Noonan, John T., Contraception: A History of its
Treatment by Catholic Theologians and Canonists,
(Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1966)
[Looks at all forms of "non-procreative"
sexuality and Church attitudes to it.]
Olsen, Glenn, W., "The Gay Middle Ages: a response to
Professor Boswell", Communio: International
Catholic Review (summer 1981), pp. 119-138
[Highly critical discussion of Boswell's
discussion of natural law by a conservative
Catholic.]
Salisbury, Joyce E., "The Latin Doctors of the Church
on Sexuality", Journal of Medical History 12:4
(1986), pp. 279-290
[Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome - After Augustine a
change in view and celibacy seen as essential.]
Sheehan, M.M., "Christianity and Homosexuality",
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 33 (1982), pp.
438-446
[Reviews Boswell, Social Tolerance, Goodich,
Unmentionable Vice, and Coleman, Christian
Attitudes]
Shiels, W.J., ed., Persecution and Tolerance. Studies
in Church History 21, (1984)
VIII The Middle Ages - Local Studies
a) Italy (see also bibliography on Dante)
Bell, R.M., "Renaissance Sexuality and the Florentine
Archives; the "lesbian nun" of Judith Brown",
Renaissance Quarterly 40 (1987), pp. 485-511
[Review article and discussion]
Brown, Judith C., "Lesbian Sexuality in Renaissance
Italy: The Case of Sister Benedetta Carlini",
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
9:4 (Summer 1984), pp. 751-758; repr. in The
Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs, ed. Estelle B.
Freedman et al (Chicago & London: Univ. of
Chicago Press, 1985), pp. 271-278
Brown, Judith C., Immodest Acts - The Life of a
Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, (New York:
Oxford UP, 1986)
{Reviewed: Jnl Mod Hist 60(1988), pp. 172-174;
Cath Hist Rev 73(1987), pp. 619-620; Histoire
108(1988), p.66; Am Jnl Socio 93(1987), pp. 324-
336; Ren Qtly 40(1987), pp. 485-511}
Brucker, Gene, ed., The Society of Renaissance
Florence: A Documentary Study, (New York: Harper
and Row, 1971)
[Florentine anti-sodomy magistracy pp. 201-206]
Gilmour-Bryson, Anne, The Trial of the Templars in
the Papal States and the Abruzzi, (Vatican:
Biblioteco Apostolica Vaticana, 1982)
Gundesheimer, Werner, "Crime and Punishment in
Ferrara", in L. Martines, Violence and Civil
Disorder in Italian Cities 1200-1500, (Berkeley:
Univ. Of California Press, 1972)
[pp. 144 ff. - 8 executions of sodomites 1440-
1500. 4% of all capital punishments.]
Herlihy, David, "Veillir a Florence au Quattrocento",
Annales E.S.C 24 (1969), pp. 1338-1352
Herlihy, David, "The Tuscan Town in the
Quattrocento", Medievalia et Humanistica 1
(1970), pp. 81-100
Labalme, Patricia H., "Sodomy and Venetian Justice in
the Renaissance", Revue d'histoire du droit 52:3
(1985), pp. 217-254
Munster, Ladislao, "Un processo per sodomia a Venezia
e una perizia medica relitiva ad esso", in
Frascastro: Studi e Memories per il IV
Centenario della Marte, (Verona: Ghidini
Fiorini, 1954), pp. 82-84
Pavan, Elizabeth, "Police des moeurs, societe et
politique a Venise a la fin du moyen age", Revue
Historique 264:2 (1986), pp. 241-288
Ruggierio, Guido, "Sexual Criminality in the Early
Renaissance: Venice 1338-1358", Journal of
Social History 8:4 (1975), pp. 18-37
[Documents 16 young nobles burnt for sodomy in
1406-1407.]
Ruggiero, Guido, The Boundaries of Eros: Sex, Crime
and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice, (New York:
Oxford UP, 1985)
Shevill, F., Medieval and Renaissance Florence 2nd
ed., (New York, 1961)
Shreve, Jack, "Homosexuality in Renaissance Italy",
Gay Literature 2 (Spring, 1972), pp. 10-14
Trexler, R.C., "La Prostitution Florentine au XVe
Siecle: Patronage et Clienteles", Annales ESC
36:6 (1981), pp. 983-1015
[Discusses Florentine institution of brothels in
1403 as an antisodomy move.]
b) France
Courouve, Claude, "Sodomy Trials in France", Gay
Books Bulletin 1 (1978), pp. 22-23, 26
[Documents 30 executions in France 1317-1783.
Author may also have a book called Archives de
l'homosexualite.]
Coward, D.A., "Attitudes to Homosexuality in
Eighteenth Century France", Journal of European
Studies 10, pp. 236 ff.
drawin
drawing on opinions od Ordericus Vitelis.]
Duby, Georges, William Marshall: The Flower of
Chivalry, trans. R. Howard, (New York: Pantheon
Books, 1985)
Herman, Gerald, "The `Sin against Nature' and its
Echos in Medieval French Literature", Annuale
Medievale 17 (1976), pp. 70-87
Le Roy Ladourie, Emmanuel, Montaillou: Village
Occitan de 1294-1324, (Paris: Gallimard, 1975),
trans. by B. Bray as Montaillou: The Promised
Land of Error, (New York: 1978)
[Discusses inquisition records including those
related to homosexuality.]
Leclerq, Jean, Monks and Love in 12th Century France:
Psychohistorical Essays, (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1979)
{Reviewed: AHR (1982), p.377}
c) Spanish Jewry
Allony, Nehemiah, "The `Zevi', Hebrew Poetry in
Spain", Seferad 23 (1963), pp. 311-321
Citron, Aaron, "Aspects of Love in the Hebrew Poetry
of Moslem Spain", Literature East and West 11
(1967), pp. 119-125
Roth, Norman, "Deal Gently with the Young Man: Love
of Boys in Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Spain",
Speculum 57 (1982), pp. 21-50
Roth, Norman, "Satire and Debate in Two Famous
Medieval Poems from al-Andulus: Love of Boys vs.
Girls, the Pen and Other Themes", The Maghreb
Review 4 (1979), pp. 105-113
Schirmann, Jefim (Hayyim), "The Ephebe in Medieval
Hebrew Poetry", Seferad 15 (1955), pp. 55-68
d) Elsewhere (See also bibliography on Chaucer)
Gade, K.E., "Homosexuality and the Rape of Males in
Old Norse Law and Literature", Scandinavian
Studies 58 (1986), pp. 124-141
Heyworth, D.L., "Jocelin of Brakeland, Abbot Samson
and the Case of William the Sacrist" in Middle
English Studies; presented to Norman Davis in
honour of his seventieth birthday, ed. Douglass
Gray & E.G. Stanley, (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1983)
[William's fault was sodomy not mismanagement.]
Koukales, P, The Private Life of the Byzantines
[Byzantinon bios kai politismos] 8 vols.,
(Athens: Institut Francais, 1947-57)(in modern
Greek)
[Vol IV, pp. 505-39 on homosexuality]
Krekic, B, "Abominandum-Crimen: Punishment of
Homosexuals in Renaissance Dubrovnik", Viator 18
(1987), pp. 337-345
Monter, E. William, "Sodomy and Heresy in Early
Modern Switzerland", Journal of Homosexuality
6:1/2 (1980), pp. 41-55, trans. and revision of
"La sodomie a l'epoque moderne en Suisse
Romande", Annales ESC 29 (1974), pp. 1023-1033
Mullet, Margaret, "Byzantium: A Friendly Society?",
Past and Present 118 (1988), pp. 3-23
[p. 11 on homosexuality.]
IX The Middle Ages - Sexuality and Law
a) Church Law
Brundage, James, Law, Sex, and Christian Society in
Medieval Europe, (Chicago & London: University
of Chicago Press, 1987)
[Must now be the standard work on the subject.]
Gauthier, Albert, "La sodomie dans le droit canonique
medieval" in L'Erotisme au Moyen Age: Etudes
presentees au IIe Colloque de l'Institut
d'Etudes Medievales, 3-4 Avril 1976, ed. Roy,
Bruno (Montreal: Ed. Aurore, 1977), pp. 109-122
Goodich, Michael, "Sodomy in Ecclesiastical Law and
Theory", Journal of Homosexuality 1:3 (1976),
pp. 427-434
[Looks at penitentials, patristics, canons,
episcopal instructions to the clergy.}
Laeuchli, Samuel, Power and Sexuality: The Emergence
of Canon Law at the Synod of Elvira,
(Philadelphia: 1972)
b) Civil and Secular Law
Gigeroff, Alexis K., Sexual Deviations in the
Criminal, (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press for
the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 1968)
Goodich, Michael, "Sodomy in Medieval Secular Law",
Journal of Homosexuality 1:3 (1976), pp. 295-302
[Criticised by Boswell, (Social Tolerance p.291)
for not assessing the meaning of "sodomy", for
assuming religious prejudice alone accounts for
anti-gay laws, and for lumping all laws in the
late medieval period together.]
Grande, L., "Laws and Attitudes towards Homosexuality
from Antiquity to the Modern Era", Ponte 43:4-5
(1987), pp. 122-129
Labalme, Patricia H., "Sodomy and Venetian Justice in
the Renaissance", Revue d'Histoire du Droit 52:3
(1985), pp. 217-254
Reinhard, J.R., "Burning at the Stake in Medieval Law
and Literature", Speculum 16 (1941), pp. 190 ff.
Stanley-James, D., "Sexual Inversion and English
Law", The Medical Press and Circular 215 (1946),
pp. 391-398
[Suggests that the introduction of Aristotle
into the curriculum at Paris somehow veiled a
battle over homosexuality.]
X The Middle Ages - Homosexual Individuals
Cuttino, G.P. & T.W. Lyman, "Where is Edward II",
Speculum 53 (1978), pp. 522-544
Daniel, Marc, "Was St. Thomas a Homosexual", trans.
Marcel Martin, Homophile Studies: ONE Institute
Quarterly 19 (1963), pp. 68-71 [Denies Jean
Anouilh's portrayal of Becket and Henry II as
lovers.]
Gillingham, John, "Richard I and Berengaria of
Navarre", Bulletin of the Institute of
Historical Research 53:128 (1980), pp. 157-173
[The alliance with Navarre vs. France and
Richard's supposed homosexuality.]
Gilman, Sander L., "Leonardo sees himself: reading
Leonardo's first representations of human
sexuality", Social Research 54:1 (1987), pp.
149-171
Goldberg, J., "Society and Sodomy: The Case of
Christopher Marlowe", Southwest Review 69
(1984?), pp. 371-378
Graham, James, The Homosexual Kings of England,
(London: Universal Tandem Pub. Co, 1968)
[brief and superficial: William II, Richard I,
Edward II, James I and William III.]
McGuire, B., "Love, Friendship and Sex in the 11th
Century: The Experience of Anselm", Studia
Theologia 28 (1974), pp. 11-32
[Looks at spiritual/erotic affections. Finds
Anselm unobsessed with male sexuality.]
Russo, William, "Leonardo: A Brush with Gayness", In
Touch no. 37 (Sept-Oct, 1978), pp. 39, 92-95
[Published records show 1474 sodomy charge
against Leonardo. He later took boys as lovers.]
Russo, William, "Caravaggio", In Touch 39 (Jan-Feb
1979), pp. 74-75, 78-79
Russo, William, "Edward II, Englands Gay King", In
Touch 43 (Sept-Oct 1979), pp. 61-63
Southern, Richard W., St. Anselm and his Biographer,
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1963)
[pp.67-76 on the cult of Ganymede]
XI The Middle Ages - Other Issues
a) Homosexuality, Heresy and Witchcraft
Bullough, Vern L., "Heresy, Witchcraft and
Sexuality", Journal of Homosexuality 1 (1974),
pp. 183-201, repr. in Vern L. Bullough: Sex,
Society and History, (New York: Science History
Publications, 1976)
[Points out that because sources often do not
distinguish between heresy, witchcraft and
homosexuality, it can be difficult to deal with
medieval homosexuality.]
Goodich, Michael, "Sexual Deviation as heresy in the
XIIth-XIVth Centuries", Modernite et Non-
conformisme en France a travers les ages: Actes
du Colloque organisee par l'Institut d'Histoire
et de Civilisation Francaise de L'Universite de
Haifa, ed. Myriam Yardeni, Studies in the
History of Christian Though 28, (Leiden: E.J.
Brill, 1983)
Karlen, Arno, "The Homosexual Heresy", Chaucer Review
6:1 (1971), pp. 44-63
Monter, E. William, "Sodomy and Heresy in Early
Modern Switzerland", Journal of Homosexuality
6:1/2 (1980), pp. 41-55, trans. and revision of
"La sodomie a l'epoque moderne en Suisse
Romande", Annales ESC 29 (1974), pp. 1023-1033
Russell, Jeffrey B., Witchcraft in the Middle Ages,
(Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1972)
Monter, E. William, "The Pedestal and the Stake:
Courtly Love and Witchcraft", in Becoming
Visible: Women in European History eds. Renate
Bridenthal & Claudia Koonz, (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1977)
Thouzellier, Christine, "Histoire des sectes dans
l'occident medieval", Annuaire de L'Ecole
Practique des Hautes Etudes Ve section 86 (1978-
9), pp. 385-388
[A study of the word "bougre" as applied to
cathars.]
Thouzellier, Christine, "Etude du term bougre,
applique aux heretiques cathares", Annuaire de
L'Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes Ve section
87 (1979-80), pp. 419-421
b) Homosexuality, Leprosy and Sickness
Brody, Saul N., The Disease of the Soul, (Ithaca,
N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1974)
[Discusses association of sexuality with
leprosy]
Bullough, Vern L. & Bonnie Bullough, Sin, Sickness
and Sanity: A History of Sexual Attitudes, (New
York: 1977)
c) Paedophilia
Eglinton, J.S., Greek Love, (New York: Oliver Layton
Press, 1964)
[Looks at history of boy-love in Greece, Rome,
Middle ages and present.]
d) Bestiality
Brouillard, R., "Bestialite",in Dictionnaire de
droit canonique 7 vols., (Paris: Librairie
Letouzey et Ane, 1935-65), pp. 793-799
[Bestiality was also seen as a "crime against
nature"]
e) Transvestism
Bullough, Vern L., "Transvestism in the Middle Ages:
A Sociological Analysis", American Journal of
Sociology 79 (1974), pp. 1381-1394, modified
repr. in Vern L. Bullough & James Brundage,
Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church, New
Concepts in Human Sexuality Series, (Prometheus
Books, 1982)
[Uses mainly hagiographical evidence.]
XII Early Modern Homosexulity - 1500-1750
Bingham, Caroline, "Seventeenth-century Attitudes
toward Deviant Sex", Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 1:3, pp. 448 ff.
Binns, J.W., "Women or Transvestite on the
Elizabethan Stage?: An Oxford Controversy",
Sixteenth Century Journal 5 (1974), pp. 95-170
[On the fear puritans had about homosexuality in
the theatre due to the presence of transvestite
boy actors.]
Bray, Alan, Homosexuality in Renaissance England,
(London: Gay Men's Press, 1982)
[Mainly concerned with 17th and 18th centuries.
Believes modern homosexual identity was
constructed in this period - the opposite of
Boswell's view]
Brown, Judith C., Immodest Acts - The Life of a
Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, (New York:
Oxford UP, 1986)
Burg, Richard, "Ho Hum, Another work of the Devil"
Buggery and Sodomy in Early Stuart England",
Journal of Homosexuality 6 (1980/81), pp. 69-78
Compton, Louis, "Homosexuals and the Death Penalty in
Colonial America", Journal of Homosexuality 1
(1976), pp. 277-293
Coward, D.A., "Attitudes to Homosexuality in
Eighteenth Century France", Journal of European
Studies 10, pp. 236 ff.
Daniel, Marc, "A Study of Homosexuality in France
during the Reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV",
ONE Institute Quarterly 4 (1961), pp. 77-93 &
125-136
Eriksson, Brigitte, "A Lesbian Execution in Germany,
1721: The Trial Records", Journal of
Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 27-40
[Trial records of two lesbians tired in 1721.
Based on a report in a 19th Century German
medical periodical.]
Goldberg, J., "Society and Sodomy: The Case of
Christopher Marlowe", Southwest Review 69
(1984?), pp. 371-378
Harris, Tim, "The Bawdy House Riots of 1668",
Historical Jouranal 29:3 (1986), pp. 537-556
[p. 543 on the homosexual bishop of Rochester.
Ref. Pepys Diary VIII 585, 586]
Katz, Jonathan, ed., Miss Marianne Woods and Miss
Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon,
(New York: Arno Press, 1975)
[Repr. of Authorities with Regard to the
Practice of Tribadism, (1811) - a collection of
authorities on lesbianism for a Scots libel
case.]
Oaks, Robert, "Things fearful to name: Sodomy and
Buggery in Seventeenth Century New England",
Journal of Social History 12 (1978), pp. 268 ff.
Oaks, Robert F., "Defining Sodomy in Seventeenth-
Century Massachusetts", Journal of Homosexuality
6:1/2 (1980), pp. 79-84
Rey, Michel, "Police et Sodomie a Paris au XVIII
siecle", Revue d'histoire moderne et
contemporaire 29 (1982), pp. 116 ff.
Rey, Michel, "Paris Homosexuals Create a Lifestyle,
1700-1750", Eighteenth Century Life 9 (3)
(1985), pp. 179 ff.
Rollison, D., "Property, Ideology and Popular Culture
in a Gloucestershire Village 1660-1740", Past
and Present 93 (1981), pp. 70-91
[Discusses sodomy.]
Teaseley, D., "The Charge of Sodomy as a Political
Weapon in Early Modern France - The Case of
Henry III in Catholic League Polemic, 1585-
1589", Maryland Historian 18:1 (1987), pp. 17-30
Tentler, Thomas T., Sex and Confession on the Eve of
the Reformation, (New York: 1979)
Thorssen, Marilyn, J., "Varieties of Amourous
Experience: Homosexual and Heterosexual
Relationships in Marlowe and Shakespeare", in
Human Sexuality in the Middle Ages and
Renaissance, ed. D. Radcliff-Umstead,
(Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Publications on
the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1978), pp. 135-
152
Trumbach, Randolph, "London's Sodomites: Homosexual
Behaviour and Western culture in the Eighteenth
Century", Journal of Social History 11:1 (1977),
pp. 1-33
[Believes in a continuous homosexual subculture.
Monter, "Modern Switzerland" discusses and
criticises this view.]
Warnicke, R.M., "Sexual Heresy at the Court of Henry
VIII", Historical Journal 30, (1987), pp. 247-
268
Wunderli, Richard M., London Church Courts and
Society on the Eve of the Reformation,
(Cambridge, Mass.: 1981)
[pp. 83-84, on the English anti-buggary statute]
XIII Modern Western Homosexuality 1750-1980
(Works marked with a * are the most useful.)
A General
*Adam, Barry D., The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian
Movement, (Boston: Twayne, 1987)
[Good textbook. Main concern is modern period.
Discusses some theoretical issues]
Arguelles, Lourdes & B. Ruby Rich, "Homosexuality,
Homophobia, and Revolution", Signs 9:4 (1984)
Atkinson, Ti-Grace, "Lesbianism and Feminism" in
Phyllis Buckley et al, eds., Amazon Expedition,
(Washington, N.J.: Times Change Press, 1973)
Baldurson, Guthni, "From Sexual Abberration to Sexual
Inversion", in IGA Pink Book, edited by the
International Gay Association, (Amsterdam: COC-
magazijn, 1985)
Burton, Richard, "Terminal Essay, Part IV, Social
Conditions - Pederasty", in The Book of the
Thousand Nights and a Night, 10 vols.,
(privately printed, 1886), Vol 10, pp. 205-254
[Burton thinks homosexual acts are endemic
between 30 and 43 degrees latitude.]
*Faderman, Lilian, Surpassing the Love of Men, (New
York: William Morrow, 1981)
[History of Lesbians based on literary sources.]
Faderman, Lilian, Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss
Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordan, (New York: William
Morrow, 1983)
[Dramatisation of Scottish trial involving
lesbians in 1792: No footnotes or bibliography
but see also Jonathan Katz, ed., Miss Marianne
Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen
Cumming Gordon, (New York: Arno Press, 1975), a
repr. of Authorities with Regard to the Practice
of Tribadism, (1811) - a collection of
authorities on lesbianism for a Scots libel
case.]
IGA Pink Book, edited by the International Gay
Association, (Amsterdam: COC-magazijn, 1985)
[Contemparary Gay Life in countries around the
world: Legal position, social expectations etc.]
B North America
[Note on sources: Many authors still depend on
personal memories, interviews, and newspaper/magazine
cuttings. Several archives have been set up, eg the
Lesbian Herstory Archives. Columbia Lesbian and Gay
Students have files going back to their foundation.
The archives of the Gay Activists Alliance are
owned/kept by Mr. John Rash, 611 W. 111th St, Box 57,
NY, NY 10025 [(212) 666 2531]. He also has probably
the best records of Dignity/New York as well as
records of various other organizations he has been
involved with.]
Abbott, Sidney, "Lesbians and the Women's Movement",
in Ginny Vida, Our Right to Love, (Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978)
Abbott, Sidney, & Barbara Love, Sappho Was a Right-On
Women, (New York: Stein & Day, 1972)
[Lesbian liberation 1969-1972]
*Adair, Nancy & Casey Adair, Word is Out: Stories of
Some Of Our Lives, (San Francisco: New Glide,
1978)
Adam, Barry D., "A Social History of Gay Politics",
in Martin Levine, ed., Gay Men, (New York:
Harper & Row, 1979)
Adam, Barry D., "Sexual Outlaws", Canadian Journal of
Political and Social Theory 4 (1980)
Adam, Barry D., "Where Gay People Come From",
Christopher Street 64 (1982)
Adam, Barry D., "Age, Structure and Sexuality",
Journal of Homosexuality 11:3/4 (1985)
Adam, Barry D., "Structural Foundations of the Gay
World", Comparative Studies in Society and
History 27:4 (1985)
Altman, Denis, Homosexual Oppression and Liberation,
(New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971)
[Classic gay lib. philosophy.]
Altman, Denis, "The State, Repression and Sexuality",
Gay Left 6 (Summer, 1978)
*Altman, Denis, Coming out in the Seventies, (Sydney:
Wild and Wolley, 1979)
Altman, Denis, "What Changed in the Seventies", in
Gay Left Collective, eds., Homsexuality: Power
and Politics, (London: Allison & Busby, 1978)
Altman, Denis, The Homosexualization of America, (New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1982)
[Gay life in the 1970s]
Bell Arthur, Dancing the Gay Lib Blues: A Year in the
Homosexual Liberation Movement, (New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1971)
[Looks at GAA in particular]
Bell Arthur, Kings Don't Mean a Thing: The John
Knight Murder Case, (New York: William Morrow,
1978)
[Looks at murder case of 1975]
Brown, Howard, Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The
Story of Homosexual Men in America Today, (New
York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976)
Bryant, Anita, The Anita Bryant Story, (Old Tappan,
N.J.: Fleming H. Revell, 1977)
[Bryants version of her anti-gay crusade of
1977]
Burnham, John, "Early References to Homosexual
Communities in American Medical Writings",
Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality 7 (August,
1973):36, pp. 40-49
D'Emilio, John, "Dreams deferred: the early American
homophile movement", in Ed Jackson & Stan
Persky, eds., Flaunting It: A Decade of Gay
Journalism from The Body Politic, (Vancouver:
New Star Books; Toronto: Pink Triangle Press,
1982), pp. 127-137
[Account of the founding of the Mattachine
Society by the communist Harry Hay in 1950.
Abbreviated verison of the following three
articles: "Radical Beginnings, 1950-1951, TBP 48
(Nov, 1978), pp. 19-24, "Public Actions Private
Fears", TBP 49 (Dec, 1978-Jan, 1979) pp. 24-29,
"Dreams Deferred", TBP 50 (Feb, 1979), pp. 22-
27]
D'Emilio, John, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communites,
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983)
[Most complete account of US homophile movement
in 1950s and 1960s]
*D'Emilio, John & Estelle Freedman, Intimate Matters:
A History of Sexuality in America, (New York:
Harper & Row, 1988)
Duberman, Martin Baumi, "The Therapy of C.M. Otis",
Christopher Street (Nov, 1977), pp. 33-37
[Discusses uses of sources to uncover history of
homosexuality.]
Duberman, Martin Baumi, "`Writhing Bedfellows': Two
Young Men from Antebellum South Carolina's
Ruling Elite Share `Extravagent Delight'",
Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 85-
102
Humphreys, Laud, Out of the Closets, (Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1972)
[Sociology of early dyas of gay lib.]
Gay Freedom 1970, (New York: Queens Quaterly
Publishing Co., 1970)
[A 32 page booklet of photos of the first Gay
Pride/Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally in
1970 "prepared by the editors of QQ Magazine.
Incidentally the "lambda" sign was on many of
the t-shirts worn in 1970.]
A Gay News Chronology: January 1969-May 1975, (New
York: Arno Press, 1975)
[562 abstracts of all NY Times articles on
homosexuality during the period covered]
Gearhart, Sally & Bill Johnson, "The Gay Movement in
the Church", in Sally Gearhart & Bill Johnson,
eds., Loving Women/Loving Men: Gay Liberation
and the Church, (San Francisco: Glide
Foundation, 1974)
Gerassi, John, The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice and
Folly in an American City, (New York: Macmillan,
1966; paperback, New York: Collier)
[Homosexual scandal and withchunt in Idaho in
1950s]
Gibson, E. Lawrence, Get Off My Ship: Ensign Berg vs,
the U.S. Navy, (New York: Arno Press, 1978)
[Court case in US Navy 1975-1976.]
Government versus Homosexuals, (New York: Arno Press,
1975)
[3 government reports on homosexuals: 1921 US
Senate, "Alleged immoral conditions at Newport
(R.I.) Naval Training Station; 1950 US Senate,
"Employment of Homosexuals and other perverts in
government"; 1966 Florida Legislature,
"Homosexuality and citizenship in Florida".]
Grier, Barbara & Coletta Reid, eds., The Lavender
Herring, (Baltimore: Diana Press, 1976)
[Journalism from the early lesbian magazine, The
Ladder]
Grier, Barbara & Coletta Reid, eds., Lesbian Lives:
Biographies of Women from The Ladder, (Oakland,
Ca.: Diana Press, 1976)
[Sketches of over 60 women who may have been
lesbians.]
Gunnison, Foster, "The Homosphile Movement in
America", in Ralph W. Weltge, ed., The Same Sex:
An Appraisal of Homosexuality, (Philadelphia:
United Church Press, 1969)
Hamilton, Wallace, Christopher and Gay: A Partisans
View of the Greenwich Village Scene, (New York:
Saturday Review Press, 1973)
[Gay life in Greenwich Village.]
Humphreys, Laud, "Organizing for Change", in Out of
the Closets: The Sociology of Homosexual
Liberation, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-
Hall, 1972; papberback, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Spectrum)
Jackson, Ed, & Stan Persky, eds., Flaunting It: A
Decade of Gay Journalism from The Body Politic,
(Vancouver: New Star Books; Toronto: Pink
Triangle Press, 1982)
[Covers the years when this Canadian Journal
followed the emergence of the Gay movement.]
Kantrowicz, Arnie, Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay,
(New York: William Morrow, 1977; paperback, New
York: Pocketbooks)
[Grwoing up gay and Jewish. Involvement in gay
lib.]
Katz, Jonathan, Coming Out: A Documentary Play about
Gay Life and Liberation in the United States of
America, (New York: Arno Press, 1975)
*Katz, Jonathan, Gay American History: Lesnians and
Gay Men in the USA - A Documentary, (New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976; paperback, New York:
Avon Discus)
[Anthology of 168 documents with some analysis.
Gives half of its space to lesbians]
Katz, Jonathan, The Gay/Lesbian Almanac, (New York:
Morrow, 1983)
Licata, Salvatore J., "Gay Power: A History of the
American Gay Movement", (Ph.D dissertation,
History, University of Southern California,
1978)
Licata, Salvatore J., "The Emerging Gay Presence",
The Advocate, 245 (Jul 12, 1978) pp. 7-8,43,
246 (July 26, 1978), pp. 7-8, 247 (August 9,
1978), pp. 17-18, 20
[Optimistic account of 20th century gay
movements.]
Licata, Salvatore J., "The Homsexual Rights Movement
in the United States: A Traditionally Overlooked
Area of American History", Journal of
Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 161-190
Lloyde, Robin, For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in
America, (New York: Vanguard Press, 1976;
paperback, New York: Ballantine)
[Superficial discussion of boy prostitution
through history.]
Marrotta, Toby, The Politics of Homosexuality,
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981)
[Integrated and more distant narrative of early
gay lib. in New York]
Martin, Del & Phyllis Lyon, Lesbian/Women, (San
Francisco: Glide Publications, 1972)
[by co-founders of the Daughters of Bilitis.
1950s homophile movement.]
Masters, Robert E.L., The Homosexual Revolution: A
Challenging Expose of the Social and Political
Directions of a Minority Group, (New York:
Julian Press, 1962; paperback, New York:
Belmont)
[Looks at Mattachine, DOB, and political
demands.]
Miller, Merle, On Being Different: What It Means to
BE a Homosexual, (New York: Random House, 1971;
paperback, New York: Popular Library)
Murphy, John, Homosexual Liberation: A Personal View,
(New York: Preager, 1971)
[By an early GLF activist.]
Myron, Nancy & Charlotte Bunch, Women Remembered: A
Collection of Biographies form the "Furies",
(Baltimore: Diana Press, 1974)
[Sketches of famous lesbians.]
Olsen, Jack, The Man with the Candy: The Story of the
Houston Mass Murders, (New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1974: paperback, New York:
Pocketbooks)
[Murders of 27 boys between 1971-1973]
Onge, Jack, The Gay Liberation Movement, (Chicago:
Alliance Press, 1971)
[Looks at 1950's plus 1969-71 in NY, SF and
Chicago.]
Parsons, Gail Pat, "Equal Treatment for All: American
Medical Remedies for Male Sexual Problems, 1850-
1900", Jouranl of the History of Medicine 32
(1977)
Reid, John (pseud.), The Best Little Boy in the
World, (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1973)
[Successful businessman complains about
society's attitude.]
Rule, Jane, Lesbian Images, (Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1975)
[Looks at writings of famous lesbians.]
Russo, Vito, The Celluloid Closet, (New York: 198 )
Sagarin, Edward, "Historical Precedents", and "The
Mattachine Society and its Predecessors", in
Structure and Ideology in an Association of
Deviants, (New York: Arno Press, 1975: reprint
of Ph.D dissertation, Sociology and
Anthropology, New York University, 1966)
Sylvestre, Paul Francois, Les homosexuels
s'organisent, (Ottawa: Editions Homeureux, 1979)
[Growth of gay movement in Canada]
Teal, Donn, The Gay Militants, (New York, Stein &
Day, 1971)
[Early documentary history of Stonewall
Rebellion. Many original sources used to convey
what happened]
Tobin, Kay & Randy Wicker, The Gay Crusaders, (New
York; Paperback Library, 1972)
[Sketches of leaders of US gay rights movement:
inc. Troy Perry, Frank Kameny, Barbara Gittings,
Jack Baker, and Jim Owles.]
Tripp, Clarence A., The Homosexual Matrix, (New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1975: paperback, New York: Signet)
Tyler, Parker, Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in
the Movies, (New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1972; paperback, Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday & Anchor)
Vida, Ginny, Our Right to Love, (Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978)
[Covers Lesbian issues in the 1970s]
Winter, Alan D., The Gay Press: A History of the Gay
Community and Its Publications, (Austin, Tex.:
self-published, typewritten, 1977)
C Britain
Croft-Cooke, Rupert, Feasting With Panthers, (New
York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967)
[Late Victorian homosexuals: Wilde, Swinbourne,
Symonds.]
Croft-Cooke, Rupert, The Verdict of You All, (London:
Secker and Warburg, 1965)
[An account of the authors arrest and trial for
homosexual offenses in 1953, and his prison
experiences.]
Galloway, Bruce, ed., Prejudice and Pride, (London:
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983)
[Modern British gay concerns,]
Gay Left Collective, eds., Homsexuality: Power and
Politics, (London: Allison & Busby, 1978)
[Theoretical tratment of gays and lesbians in a
cpitalist society]
Gilbert, Arthur N., "The `Africaine' Courts-Martial:
A Study of Buggery in the Royal", Journal of
Homosexuality 1 (1974), pp. 111-122
Gilbert, Arthur N., "Buggery and the British Navy",
Journal of Social History (1976), pp. 72-98
Gilbert, Arthur N., "Doctor, Patient, and Onanist
Diseases in the Nineteenth Century", Journal of
the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
(1975)
Gilbert, Arthur N., "Sexual Deviance and Disaster
during the Napoleonic Wars", Albion 9 (Spring,
1977), pp. 98-113
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Cleveland Street Scandal,
(New York: Coward-McCann and Geoghegan, 1976)
[A Homosexual scandal in Victorian Britain]
Katz, Jonathan, ed., Miss Marianne Woods and Miss
Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon,
(New York: Arno Press, 1975)
[repr. of Authorities with Regard to the
Practice of Tribadism, (1811) - a collection of
authorities on lesbianism for a Scots libel
case.]
Reade, Brian, ed., Sexual Heretics: Male
Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850 to
1900, (New York: Coward-McCann, 1970)
Simpson, Colin, Lewis Chester & David Leitch, The
Cleveland Street Affair, (Boston: Little Brown,
1976)
[A Homosexual scandal in Victorian Britain.]
Smith, Timothy d'Arche, Love in Earnest: Some Notes
on the Lives and Writings of English "Uranian"
Poets from 1889 to 1930, (London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1970)
*Walter, Aubrey, ed., Come Together: the years of gay
liberation (1970-1973), (London: Gay Men's
Press, 198 )
[Articles form the London Gay Liberation Front's
paper Come Together]
*Weeks, Jeffrey, Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in
Britains From the Nineteenth Century to the
Present, (New York & London: Quartet, 1977)
{Rev. in Jnl.Homo 6 (1980), pp. 214-219}
Weeks, Jeffrey, Sex, Politics and Society, (London:
Longman, 1981)
Weeks, Jeffrey, Sexuality and its Discontents,
(London: 19 )
Weeks, Jeffrey, "Inverts, Perverts, and Mary-Annes:
Male Prostitution and the Regulation of
Homosexuality in England in the Nineteenth and
Early Twentieth Centuries", Journal of
Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp.
Wildeblood, Peter, Against the Law, (London:
Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1956; paperback,
Harmondsworth: Penguin)
[First-hand account of one of the five men
charged in the "Lord Montagu" case in 1954.]
D France
Barbadette, Gilles & Michel Carassou, Paris Gay 1925,
(Paris: Presses de Renaissance, 1981)
Bonnet, Marie-Jo, Un choix sans équivoque, (Paris:
Editions Denoel, 1981)
Brassai, The Secret Paris of the 30's, (New York:
Pantheon, 1981)
Bory. Jean-Louis & Guy Hocquengham, Comment nous
appelez vous déja?, (Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1977)
*Girard. Jacques, Le mouvement homosexuel en France,
1945-1980, (Paris: Editions Syros, 1981)
Hahn, Pierre, Nos ancetres les pervers, (Paris:
Olivier Orban, 1979)
Huddleston, Sisley, Paris Salons, Cafés, Studios,
(New York: Lippincott, 1928)
D Germany/Austria
Baumgardt, Manfred, "Berlin, ein Zentrum der
entstehenden Sexualenwissenschaften und dir
Vorlaufer der Homosexualitat-Bewegung", "Das
Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft und die
Homosexuelle Bewegung in der Wiemarer Republik",
and "Die Homosexuellen-Bewegung bis zum Ende des
Erstern Weltkreiges", in Eldorado, ed. by the
Berlin Museum, (Berlin: Frolich & Kaufmann,
1984)
Benkert (Kertbeny), K.M., Paragarph 143 des
preussichen Strafgesetzebuches vom14.4.1851 und
seine Aufrechterhaltung als Paragraph 152 im
Entwurf eines Strafgesetzbuches fur den
Norddeutschen Buns..., (Leipzig: 1869); repr. in
Jahrbuch fur sexuelle Zwischenstufen 7 (1905),
pp. 1-66
[first use of the word "homosexual"]
Bleuel, Hans Peter, Sex and Society in Nazi Germany,
(Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1974)
[Discusses inter alia, Roehm's murder, and the
view that homosexuals should be drowned in bogs
as amongst the ancient Germans.]
Bock, Gisela, "Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany",
Signs 8:3 (1993)
Eldorado, ed. by the Berlin Museum, (Berlin: Frolich
& Kaufmann, 1984)
[Illustrates history of gay men and lesbians in
Germany before 1950, based on a 1984
exhibition.]
Evans, Richard, The Feminist Movement in Germany,
1894-1933, (London: Sage, 1976)
Faderman, Lilian & Brigette Erikson, Lesbian-Feminism
in Turn-of the Century Germany, (Weatherby Lake,
Mo.: Naiad Press, 198o)
[History of Lesbianism in Germany 1895-1921,
including Anna Rulings address to the Scientific-
Humantarian Commitee.]
Got, Ambroise, "Le vice organisé en Allemagne",
Mercure de France 161 (1923)
Hamilton, Richard, Who Voted for Hitler?, (Princeton
N.J.: Princeton UP, 1982)
Herzen, W., "Antithetical Sexual Sentiment and
Section 175 of the Imperial Penal Law, 1898", in
Bernstein on Homosexuality, trans. Angela
Clifford, (Belfast: Athol Books, 1984)
Herzer, Manfred, "Nazis, Psychiatrists, and Gays",
Cabirion 12 (Spring/Summer, 1985)
Hirschfeld, Magnus, "Berlins drittes Geschlecht", &
"Sappho und Socrates", in Documents of the
Homosexual Rights Movement in Germany, 1836-
1927, (New York: Arno, 1985)
Hoess, Rudolf, Commandant od Auschwitz, (London: Pan
Books, 1959)
Hohman, Joachim, Keine Zeit fur gute Freunde,
(Berlin: Foerster Verlag, 1982)
Kokula, Ilse, Der Kampf gegen Unterdruckung, (Munich:
Verlag Frauenoffensive, 1975)
[Development of modern German Lesbian movement.]
*Lauritsen, John & David Thorstad, The Early
Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1953), (New
York: Times Chnage Press, 1974)
[First book on the subject in 1970s.]
*Lautmann, Rudiger, "The Pink Triangle: The
Persecution of Homosexual Males in Concentration
Camps in Nazi Germany ", Journal of
Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 141-160
Lautmann, Rudiger & E. Vismar, Pink Triangle: The
Social History of Antihomosexual Persecution in
Nazi Germany, (forthcoming, ref. in Jnl.Homo 6
(1980), p. 160)
Plant, Richard, "The Men with the Pink Triangles",
Christopher Street (Feb. 1978) pp. 4-10
*Plant, Richard, The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War
Against Homosexuals, (New York: Owl/New
Republic/Henry Holt, 1986)
[Probably the best book on the Nazi treatment of
gays, but far from perfect. Useful
bibliography.]
*Rector, Frank, The Nazi Extermination of
Homosexuals, (1981)
Steakley, James, "Homosexuals and the Third Reich",
in Ed Jackson & Stan Persky, eds., Flaunting It:
A Decade of Gay Journalism from The Body
Politic, (Vancouver: New Star Books; Toronto:
Pink Triangle Press, 1982), pp. 84-90
[First English account of gays in Nazi Germany,
TBP 11 (Feb, 1974)]
*Steakley, James, The Homosexual Emancipation
Movement in Germany, (New York: Arno, 1975)
[Most important text on the issue.]
Steakley, James, "Gays under Socialism: Male
Homosexuality in the German Democratic
Republic", The Body Politic 29 (Dec 1976-Jan
1977), pp. 15-18
Stumke, Hans-Georg & Rudi Finkler, Rosa Winkel, Rosa
Listen, (Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1981)
[Most comprehensiev treatment of gay movement in
Germany, from Hirshcfeld until now.]
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich, Forschungen uber das Ratsel
der mannmannlichen Liebe 12 vols. in 1,
(Liepzig: 1898; repr. New York: Arno Press,
1975)
E Other European Countries
Baktis, Dr., Die Sexualrevolution in Russland,
(Berlin: Verlag der Syndikalist; repr.
Osnabruck: Atchive Antiautoritare, n.d.)
Brockman, Jurgen, "Antihomosexualitat in den
sozialistischen Landern Osteuropas", in Rudiger
Lautmann, ed., Seminar: Gesellachaft und
Homosexualitat, (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1977)
Fluvia, Armand de, "El movimento homosexual en el
estado espanol", In José Ramon Enriquez, El
Homsexual ante la Sociedad Enferma, (Barcelona:
Tusquets, 1978)
Grupa de Accion Gay, "Liberacion sin Aqualane",
Sodoma 2 (Italy: 1955)
Hauer, Gudrun et al., Rosa Liebe unterem roten Stern,
(Hamburg: Fruhlings Erwachen, 1984)
Mirabet I Mullol, Antoni, Homosexualidad Hoy,
(Barcelona: Editorial Herder, 1985)
[Most important referenve in Spanish to
homosexuality. Looks at theories and the
emerging gay movement. in Spanish and Catalan.]
Teilman, Rob, Homosexualiteit in Nederland,
(Amsterdam: Boom, Meppel, 1982)
F Outside Europe and North America
Arboleda, Manuel, "Gay Life in Lima", Gay Sunshine
42/43 (1980)
Botero, Ebel, "Our Sisters and Brothers in Columbia",
in Gay Community News (Boston: 8:25, 1981)
Carrier, Joseph, "Cultural Factors Affecting Urban
Male Homosexual Behavior", Archives of Sexual
Behavior 5:2 (1976)
Hansen, Waldemar, "Naked to his Enemies", in The
Peacock Throne, (New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1972), pp. 396-421
[Account of a Sufi mystic, Sarmad, a convert
from Judaism, in Mogul India.]
Herrick, Thaddeus, "A View of Venezuelan
Homosexuality", Habari-Daftari 4 (1984)
XIV Works on History of Homosexuality after AIDS -
Noted after Dec 1988
Altman, Denis, AIDS in the Mind of America, (Garden
City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1986)
*Shilts, Randy, And The Band Played On: People
Politics and the AIDS Epidemic, (New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1987)
[Based on interviews with most important players
in unfolding of first few years of AIDS]
XV Works on Homosexual Individuals - After 1750
Ackerley, Joe R., My Father and Myself, (New York:
Coward-McCann, 1968)
[Discusses inter alia homosexuality in inter-war
London.]
Asprey, Robert, The Panthers Feast, (New York:
Putnam's Sons, 1959)
[Biography of Colonel Alfred Redl, Austro-
Hungarian Deputy Chief of Intelligence in the
First World War. Uses novel techniques.]
Asprey, Robert, Frederick the Great: The Magnificent
Enigma, (1988)
Boyd, Malcolm, Take Off the Masks, (Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1978)
[Gay Epicoplian priest.]
Britten, Vera, Radclyffe Hall, A Case of Obscenity?,
(London: Femina, 1968)
Crisp, Quentin, The Naked Civil Servant, (New York:
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968; paperback,
New York: Signet)
[Very good autobiography by one of the "stately
homos" of England.]
Croft-Cooke, Rupert, Bosie: The Story of Lord Alfred
Douglas, His Friends, and Enemies, (London: W.H.
Allen, 1963)
[Sympathetic to Douglas.]
Croft-Cooke, Rupert, The Unrecorded Life of Oscar
Wilde, (New York: David McKay, 1972)
Deford, Frank, Big Bill Tiden: The Triumph and
Tragedy, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975)
[Account of a homosexual tennis player,
eventually charged with sex with young boys.]
Driberg, Tom, Ruling Passions: The Autobiography of
Tom Driberg, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1977)
[Posthumous autobiography of a gay Labour MP.]
*Ellerman, Richard, Oscar Wilde, (1987)
Fryer, Jonathan, Isherwood: A Biography, (Garden
City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978)
Goodman, Paul, "Memoirs of an Ancient Activist", in
Joseph A. McCaffery, ed., The Homosexual
Dialectic, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-
Hall, 1972)
*Hodges, Andrew, Alan Turing: The Enigma of
Intelligence, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984)
Hull, Isabel, The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
1888-1918, (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982)
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Trials of Oscar Wilde,
(London: William Hodge, 1948)
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,
(New York: University Books, 1956; paperback,
New York: Dover)
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Trial of Sir Roger Casement,
(London: William Hodge, 1964)
Hyde, H. Montgomery, Oscar Wilde: A Biography, (New
York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1975; paperback,
London: Magnum)
[Superceded by Ellerman.]
Inglis, Brian, Roger Casement, (London: Hodder &
Stoughton, 1973)
*Isherwood, Christopher, Christopher and His Kind,
(London: Eyre Methuen, 1977; pb, Magnum, 1978)
[Autobiography - vivid account of gay life in
1930s Berlin and Mediterranean]
Kopay, David and Perry D. Young, The David Kopay
Story: An Extraordinary Self-Revelation, (New
York: Arbor House, 1977; paperback, New York:
Bantam)
[Coming put by a professional football player.]
Maugham, Robin, Escape from the Shadows, (New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1973)
Perry, Troy and Charles Lucas, The Lord is My
Shephard and He Knows I'm Gay, (Los Angeles:
Nash Publishing Co., 1972; paperback, New York:
Bantam)
[How the Metropolitan Vommunity Church was
founded, by the founder.]
Read, B.L., The Lives of Roger Casement, (New Haven:
Yale UP, 1976)
Russo, William, "Horatio", In Touch 38 (Nov-Dec
1978), pp. 30-31,
[On Horatio Alger.]
Russo, William, "Hart Crane", In Touch 41 (May-June
1979), pp. 69-72, 75
Russo, William, "Lawrence of Arabia", In Touch 44
(Nov-Dec 1979), pp. 61-62, 64
*Shilts, Randy, The Mayor of Castro Street, (New
York: St. Martin's Press, 198 )
Shilts, Randy, The Life and Times of Harvey Milk,
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 198 )
[On the gay city council man in San Francisco]
Smith, A.E., "Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: His Life and
Loves Re-examined", ONE Institute Quarterly 12
(1961), pp. 20-36
[Argues Tch. was well-adjusted and his life was
not tragedy.]
Swicegood, Thomas L.P., Our God Too, (Pyramid Books,
1974)
[Troy Perry and the founding of the Metropolitan
Community Church.}
Wells, Anna. M., Miss Marks and Miss Wolley, (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1978)
[Lesbian faculty at Mount Holyoke College.}
Williams, Tennesee, Memoirs, (Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1975: paperback, New York: Bantam)
XVI Anthropological and Sociological Works
[No Attempt to be Comprehensive Here]
'Abd Allah, Mahmud Mohammed, "Siwan Customs", Harvard
African Studies, 1:7 (1917)
Adam, Barry D., "The Construction of a Sociological
Homosexual in Canadian Textbooks", Canadian
Review of Sociology and Anthropology 23:3 (1986)
*Bell, Alan P. & Martin S. Weinberg, Homosexualities:
A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women, (New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1978)
Blackwood, Evelyn, "Sexuality and Gender in Certain
Native American Tribes", in Signs 10:1 (1984)
Boissevain, J. & J.C. Mitchell, eds., Network
Analysis: Studies in Human Interaction, (The
Hague and Paris: 1973)
Boissevain, J., Friends of Friends: Networks,
Manipulators and Coalitions, (Oxford: 1974)
*Callender, Charles & Lee Kochens, "The North
American Berdache", Current Anthropology 24:4
(1983)
Churchill, Wainwright, Homosexual Behaviour Among
Males: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Species
Investigation, (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1967;
p.b. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall)
Cohen, Albert, "The Study of Social Disorganization
and Deviant Behavior", in Robert Merton, Leonard
Brown & Leonard Cothell, Sociology Today, (New
York: Basic Books, 1959)
Erikson, Kai, "Notes on the Sociology of Deviance",
in Howard Becker, The Other Side Perspectives on
Deviance, (New York: Free Press, 1964)
*Evans-Pritchard, E.E., "Sexual Inversion among the
Azande", American Anthropologist 72:6 (1970)
[Classic article, often used for comparative
purposes.]
*Greenberg, David F., The Construction of
Homosexuality, (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1988)
[Recent exposition of the social construction
school. Has an extensive historical survey]
Harry, Joseph, "On the Validity of Typologies of Gay
Males", Journal of Homosexuality 2:2 (1976/77)
Harry, Joseph, "Derivative Deviance", Criminology
19:4 (1982)
Harry, Joseph & William Devall,The Social
Organization of Gay Males, (New York: Praeger,
1978)
*Herdt, Gilbert, Ritualized Homosexuality in
Melanesia, (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1984)
Leinhardt, S., Social Networks: A Developing
Paradigm, (New York: 1977)
Mitchell, J.C., ed., Social Networks in Urban
Situations, (Manchester: 1969)
XVII Works on Lesbians
[Works specifically on lesbians collected from all
periods above. Other books cover lesbianism as part
of homosexuality in general.]
Abbott, Sidney, "Lesbians and the Women's Movement",
in Ginny Vida, Our Right to Love, (Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978)
Abbott, Sidney, & Barbara Love, Sappho Was a Right-On
Women, (New York: Stein & Day, 1972)
[Lesbian liberation 1969-1972]
Atkinson, Ti-Grace, "Lesbianism and Feminism" in
Phyllis Buckley et al, eds., Amazon Expedition,
(Washington, N.J.: Times Change Press, 1973)
Cassio, A.C., "Post Classical Lesbiai", Classical
Quarterly 33:1 (1983), pp. 296-297
Crier, Barbara & Coletta Reid, eds., The Lavender
Herring, (Baltimore: Diana Press, 1976)
[Journalism from the early lesbian magazine, The
Ladder]
Bell, R.M., "Renaissance Sexuality and the Florentine
Archives; the "lesbian nun" of Judith Brown",
Renaissance Quarterly 40 (1987), pp. 485-511
[Review article and discussion]
Britten, Vera, Radclyffe Hall, A Case of Obscenity?,
(London: Femina, 1968)
Brown, Judith C., "Lesbian Sexuality in Renaissance
Italy: The Case of Sister Benedetta Carlini",
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
9:4 (Summer 1984), pp. 751-758; repr. in The
Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs, ed. Estelle B.
Freedman et al, (Chicago & London: Univ. of
Chicago Press, 1985), pp. 271-278
Brown, Judith C., Immodest Acts - The Life of a
Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, (New York:
Oxford UP, 1986(
{Reviewed: Jnl Mod Hist 60(1988), pp. 172-174;
Cath Hist Rev 73(1987), pp. 619-20; Histoire
108(1988), p.66; Am Jnl Socio 93(1987), pp. 324-
336; Ren Qtly 40(1987), pp. 485-511}
Crompton, Louis, "The Myth of Lesbian Impunity:
Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791), Journal of
Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 11-26
[Interesting account of laws against lesbianism.
Also includes an updated, referenced list of
number of gay males killed in the past.]
Devereaux, George, "The Nature of Sappho's Siezure in
FR 31 LP as Evidence of her Inversion",
Classical Quarterly 20 (1970), pp. 17-31
Eriksson, Brigitte, "A Lesbian Execution in Germany,
1721: The Trial Records", Journal of
Homosexuality 6:1/2 (1980), pp. 27-40
[Trial records of two lesbians tired in 1721.
Based on a report in a 19th Century German
medical periodical.]
Evans, Richard, The Feminist Movement in Germany,
1894-1933, (London: Sage, 1976)
Faderman, Lilian, Surpassing the Love of Men, (New
York: William Morrow, 1981)
[History of Lesbians based on literary sources.]
Faderman, Lilian, Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss
Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordan, (New York: William
Morrow, 1983)
[Dramatisation of Scottish trial involving
lesbians in 1792: No footnotes or bibliography
but see also Jonathan Katz, ed., Miss Marianne
Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen
Cumming Gordon, (New York: Arno Press, 1975), a
repr. of Authorities with Regard to the Practice
of Tribadism, (1811) - a collection of
authorities on lesbianism for a Scots libel
case.]
Foster. Jeannette H., Sex Variant Women in
Literature: A Historical and Quantative Survey
2nd ed., (New York: Vantage Press, 1956)(repr.
Baltimore: Diana Press, 1975)
Huxley, G.L., "Onomakles and the Alopekonnesians
(Lesbian Antiquities in the Oxyrhyncus-Papyrus
3711)", Journal of Hellenic Studies 107 (1987),
pp. 187-188
Katz, Jonathan, ed., Miss Marianne Woods and Miss
Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon,
(New York: Arno Press, 1975)
[Repr. of Authorities with Regard to the
Practice of Tribadism, (1811) - a collection of
authorities on lesbianism for a Scots libel
case.]
Kokula, Ilse, Der Kampf gegen Unterdruckung, (Munich:
Verlag Frauenoffensive, 1975)
[Development of modern German Lesbian movement.]
Martin, Del & Phyllis Lyon, Lesbian/Women, (San
Francisco: Glide Publications, 1972)
[by co-founders of the Daughters of Bilitis.
1950s homophile movement.]
Pomeroy, S, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, Slaves: Women
in Classical Antiquity, (New York: 1975)
Vida, Ginny, Our Right to Love, (Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978)
[Covers Lesbian issues in the 1970s]
XVIII Films dealing with Homosexuality
(Overtly gay or lesbian subject matter - aims to be
complete)
A Month in the Country (1988)
Angelic Conversations (Director: Derek Jarman)
Another Country (Star: Rupert Everret)
As Is
Before Stonewall (Documentary)
(Lesbian content)
Boys in the Band (Director: William Friedkin)
Cabaret (Stars: Liza Minelli, Michael York)
Caravaggio (Director: Derek Jarman)
Cruising(Director: William Friedkin)
Desert Hearts
(Lesbian content)
Equus
The Everlasting Secret Family (1988, Australia;
Director: Michael Thornhill; Star; Mark Lee)
Jubilee (Director: Derek Jarman)
La Cage aux Folles (French)
La Cage aux Folles II (French)
La Cage aux Folles III (French)
Madchen in Uniform (German)
(Lesbian content)
Making Love
Maurice
Mephisto (German; Star: Klaus Maria Brandauer)
Oberst Redl (German; Star: Klaus Maria Brandauer)
Outrageous
Parting Glances
Personal Best
(Lesbian content)
Querelle (French: Director: Werner Fassbinder)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sebastiane (Latin; Director: Derek Jarman)
Taxi Zum Klo (German; Director; )
The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Documentary)
Torch Song Trilogy (Star: Harvey Fierstein)
Victim (Star: Dirk Bogarde)
Word is Out (Documentary)
(Lesbian content)
XIX Gay Cult Films
(Not overtly gay subject matter. Necessarily
selective. Camp and "musicality" is major factor in
selection. Almost any film starring Judy Garland,
Betty Davis, Joan Crawford counts.)
All about Eve (Star: Betty Davis)
Casablanca (Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman)
Dark Victory (Star: Betty Davis)
Gone With the Wind (Star: Vivienne Leigh)
Hairspray (Director: John Walters; Star: Divine)
Little Shop of Horrors
Mildred Pierce (Star: Joan Crawford)
Pink Flamingoes (Director: John Walters; Star:
Divine)
The Sound of Music (Star: Julie Andrews)
A Star is Born (Star: Judy Garland)
A Star is Born (Star: Barbra Streisand)
Sunset Boulevard (Star: Gloria Swanson)
West Side Story (Star: Natalie Wood)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (Star: Betty Davis &
Joan Crawford)
The Wizard Of Oz (Star: Judy Garland)
A Woman's Face (Star: Joan Crawford)
XX Lesbian and Gay Magazines, Newpapers and
Periodicals
[Title, city/country, dates. Does not include Porn
one offs]
The Advocate, Santa Barbara [Biggest circulation US
magazine]
Arcadie, Paris
Babilonia, Milan, Italy
Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco
The Body Politic, Toronto [Possibly best gay paper
ever published]
Campaign, Sydney, Australia
Capital Gay, London, 1982- [Free London local]
Christopher Street, New York [New York intellectual
magazine. Fiction is good, and it is important
for history of gays in US.]
European Gay Review, London, 1987? [intermittent
attempt at a serious magazine. Uses hackneyed
names. How many articles can there be on
Benjamin Britten?]
Gai Pied, Paris [Main French gay magaazine. Now
weekly.]
Gay Community News, Boston
Gay Left, London
Gay Life, Manchester, England
Gay News, London 1972-84 [Main UK paper during its
existence]
Gay Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Gay Times, London 1982- [Began as Him Magazine and
then changes title]
Him, London, 1987- [Earlier version became Gay Times.
Now soft porn.]
In Touch for Men, US, [soft porn plus some articles]
Jahrbuch fur Sexuelle Zwischenstufen, (Leipzig: Max
Spohr, 1899-1923)
Journal of Homosexuality, New York, 1976- [Serious
scholarly articles with each issue devoted to a
specific topic.]
The Ladder, [early lesbian US magazine.]
Lamda Nachrichten, Austria
New York Native, New York
ONE
ONE Institue Quaterly
Outrage, Melbourne, Australia
Outweek, New York, 1989-
Pink Paper, London, 1987- [Free UK national
newspaper]
Pink Triangle, Wellington, New Zealand
Q International, London, [1970s periodical which
attempted to do a Playboy for gay men in terms
of presenting a "lifestyle" of travel, opera
etc.]
QQ Magazine, New York, 1969-
Rosa Winkel, West Germany
Salmagundi, New York
The Sentinel, San Francisco
Square Peg, London, 1983?- [Arts and culture
magazine. On top of things in UK]
Washington Blade, Washington DC
Windy City Times, Chicago
Zipper, London, [now porno, but used to contain
articles]
Excursus I: A Partial List of Personages Reputed to
Be/Have Been Homosexual
[There is no implication that there is proof these
people are/were homosexual, but they have all been
claimed at various times to have been so.]
Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Persia
Ancient Greece
Zeus and Ganymede
Heracles
Achilles and Patroclus
Hyakinthos
Alcibiades
Alexander the Great
Dionysius of Syracuse
Philip of Macedon
Solon
Adaios
Aeschines
Agathon
Alceaus
Aristogeiton and Harmodius
Demosthenes
Flaccus
Glaukos
Marcus Argentius
Meleager
Sappho
Skythinos
Socrates
Paulos
Philip of Thessalonica
Philostratus
Pindar
Plato
Rhianus
Rufinus
Strato
Theocritus
Theognis
Zeno
All Spartan Men
The Sacred Band of Thebes
Ancient Rome
Catiline
Sulla and Metrobius
Julius Caesar
Mark Anthony
Tiberius
Caligula (inter alia)
Nero
Hadrian and Antoninus
Elagabulus
Catullus (c.84-c.54 BC)
Horace (65-8 BC)
Martial (40-104)
Ovid (43BC-18AD)
Seneca
Statius (40-96)
Tibullus (c60-19BC)
Ancient Jews
David and Jonathan
Ancient and Medieval Christians
St. Aelred of Rievaulx
St. Anselm
St. Paulinus of Nola and Ausonius
Alcuin (735-804)
Ausonius (310-390)
Baudri of Bourgeuil
Gottschalk
Hrbanus Maurus
John, Bishop of Orleans (Flora)
John of Salisbury and Pope Hadrian IV
Marbod of Rennes
Ralph, Archbishop of Tours
Venantius Fortunatus (530-603)
Walafrid Strabo (809-849) and Luitger
Byzantium
Nicephorus I (802-811)
Michael III (842-867)
Basil I
Basil II (976-1025)
Constantine VIII (1025-1028)
Constantine IX Monomachus (1042-1055)
Islam
Saladin
Italy
Frederick II (1194-1250)
Conradin of Sicily (1252-1268)
Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (1477-1549), "il Sodoma"
Caravaggio
Cellini
Leonardo da Vinci and Jacopa Saltarelli, Andrea
Salaini, Francesco Melzi, Cesare da Sesto,
Giuliano Boltraffio
Machiavelli
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) and Tommaso
Cavalieri
Raphael (1458-1520)
Andrea Poliziano (1454-1495)
Pierre Paulo Pasolini
Francesco Zefferelli
France
Philip II Augustus
Henry III (1551-1589)
Philip, Duc d'Orleans (1640-1701)
Marie Antoinette
Duc Claude de Villiars
Duc de Nevers
Eugene of Savoy (1663-17736)
Francois Timoleon de Choisy, Abbe de Choisy (1644-
1724)
Louis, Prince of Conde
Madame du Stael
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Joan of Arc
Michel Foucault
Colette
Jean Cocteau
Andre Gide
Jean Genet
Violette Leduc
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
Marcel Proust
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
Britain
William II (1187-1100)
Robert, Duke of Normandy
William Aethling (Son of Henry I)
Richard I (1189-1199) and Raife de Clermon
Edward II (1284-1327) and Piers Gaveston, then Hugh
Dispenser
Richard II (1367-1400)
James I & VI and George Villiers, Marquess of
Buckingham
William III
Lord Mountbatten
Earl of Castlehaven (17th C.)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1648-1680)
John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford and John Childe
Tom Driberg
Chris Smith MP
Anthony Blunt
Roger Casement
Donald McClean
J.R. Ackerley (1896-1967)
W.H. Auden
Harold Ashton
Richard Barnfield (1574-1641)
A.C. Benson
Rupert Brooke
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Richard Burton (19th Century)
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)
C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933)
Aleister Crawley (1877-1947)
Quentin Crisp
Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945)
E.M. Forster
Patrick Gale
Canon John Gray
Radclyffe Hall (1886-1943)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
A.E. Houseman (1859-1936)
Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
Francis King
T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Robin Maugham
Somerset Maugham
Harold Nicolson
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Joe Orton
Andre Raffelovitch
David Rees
Mary Renault
Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo (1860-1913)
Vita Sackville-West
Saki (H.E. Munro)
Siegfried Sasson (1886-1967)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Edward Lucie Smith (1933-)
Stephen Spender
Lytton Strachey
John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)
Tom Wakefield
Evelyn Waugh
Oscar Wilde
Mary Wollstonecraft and Fanny Blood
Virgina Woolf
David Hockney and Peter Schlesinger
Gluck
Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
Peter Maxwell Davis
Michael Tippet
Andy Bell/Erasure
Boy George
Paul Gambaccini
Elton John
George Melly
Jimmy Somerville/Communards
Pet Shop Boys
Derek Jarman
Dirk Bogarde
Simon Callow
Michael Cashman
John Gielgud
Ian McKellan
Miriam Margolis
Alan Turing
Greater Germany
Frederick the Great (1712-1786) of Prussia
Prince Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Ludwig of Bavaria
Wilhelm II
Ernst Roehm
Klaus Mann
Karl August George Max, Graf von Platen-Hallerunde
(1796-1835)
Ludwig van Beethoven (and nephew)
Magnus Hirshfeld
Karl Ulrichs
Werner Fassbinder
Iberia
Moshe ibn Ezra
Ibn Sahl
Ibn Sheshet
Ibn Barzel
Abraham ibn Ezra
Judah Halevi
Federico Garcia Llorca (1898-1936)
Eastern Europe
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
Sergei Rachmaninov
Peter Tchaikovsky
North America
Susan B. Anthony and Anna Dickinson
Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury, Governor of New York,
1702-1708
Harvey Milk
Horatio Alger
James Baldwin
Rita Mae Brown (1944-)
Truman Capote
Willa Cather
Elizabeth Bowen
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Maureen Duffy
Allan Ginsberg (1926-)
Andre Holleran
Henry James
Larry Kramer
Armisted Maupin
Felice Picano (1944-)
Adrienne Rich (1929-)
Jane Rule
May Sarton
Gertrude Stein and Alice. B. Toklas
Alice Walker
Patricia Nell Warren
Edmund White
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Tennesse Williams (1914-198 )
Tallulah Bankhead
Montgomery Cliff
George Cukor
James Dean
Divine
Greta Garbo
Cary Grant
Rock Hudson
Charles Laughton
Sal Mineo
John Walters
George Balanchine
Joan Baez
Liberace
Johnny Mathis
Leonard Bernstein
Stephen Sondheim
David Kopay
Troy Perry
Elsewhere
Queen Christina of Sweden
Excursus II: Medieval Homosexuality
Introduction
Shoddy scholarship until recently marked much of
the discussion of the history of medieval
homosexuality. Some gay activists substituted polemic
for research. Added to this was a distinctly modern
disdain of homosexuality by traditional academics.
Work of reasonable quality has been done, beginning
with Derrick Bailey's Homosexuality and the Western
Christian Tradition in 1955 but apart from that work
before 1975 has to be treated with caution. Since the
mid seventies more thoroughgoing studies have begun,
and it is clear that more local studies need to be
done before any synthesis can be made.
In this bibliography it will be found that the
meaning of the word "sodomy", Christian intolerance,
homosexuality and the link with heresy and
witchcraft, homosexual individuals, canon and secular
law, and the existence of a homosexual subculture
have all been studied. Lesbian's have remained
invisible to most writers. More recently, there has
been an increase in the number of studies looking at
local areas/cultures - Venice, Florence, Ferrara,
Spain, England, Norway - which will eventually offer
an opportunity to test the more general statements of
wider reaching studies.
Source Materials on Medieval Homosexuality
There were early studies of the history of
homosexuality, but the work of Derrick S. Bailey in
1955 marked a new departure in the use of sources.
Bailey's sources were canon law, secular law such as
Justinian's Code and barbarian codes, and some
writings of church fathers and their medieval
successors. Bailey's work was used by many of the
other writers in the 1960's and early 1970's.
John Boswell also uses these sources but, due to
his determination to look not only at negative
attitudes to homosexuals, he introduced evidence from
sources such as troubadour and other poetry and the
writings of monastic authors such as Aelred of
Riveaulx. By taking medieval discussions of
friendship as relevant to homosexuality, Boswell
widened considerably the evidence available for
discussion.
One of the problems with all these sources is of
discerning what they are discussing. The word
"homosexual" is a nineteenth century invention, and
it is clear that "sodomy" had various meanings in the
middle ages. Some writers, taking an extreme realist
position, deny that there were any homosexuals as
such in the middle ages, only homosexual acts. Their
point is that some self-consciousness is required for
us to speak of "homosexuals".
There is another problem with the sources
discussed so far. They are difficult to tie to what
was actually happening in particular places to
particular individuals. Mostly they are wide in scope
and necessitate that the authors who use them talk
about "medieval culture" and "Christian attitudes"
over large areas and long time periods. The
hermeneutical difficulties of using such contrasting
sources as seventh century Visigothic law codes and
twelfth century monastic writing to say anything
consistent about medieval homosexuality are immense.
There has been a marked increase in homosexual
studies since c.1975, and one of the most noticeable
trends is in local studies. Ruggiero, Goodich,
Boswell, Monter, Roth and others have used local
inquisition records, court records and poetry to
present the history of homosexuality from such
diverse local areas as Norway and Dubrovnik to Venice
and Florence. The opportunity is now available to use
these local records to come to more solid
conclusions.
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