Welcome to my website with a special focus on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender history.

(Updated 22 May 2013)

It contains numerous articles that I've written over many years, as well as a large selection of primary documents, plus bibliographies and useful links to other websites on LGBTQ history. It also contains some of my writing on non-gay eighteenth-century history and literature.

BOOKS BY RICTOR NORTON
Mother Clap's Molly House
My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries
Gothic Readings 1764-1840
Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Anne Radcliffe
Myth of the Modern Homosexual: The Search for Cultural Unity
Sex Doctors and Sex Crimes: Eighteenth Century British Erotica
Sodomites, Mollies, Sapphists and Tommies: Eighteenth Century British Homoerotica

LINKS
Links to Queer History Websites
Links to Reviews of Books on Queer History
Links to Reviews of Biographies of Gays and Lesbians

REVIEWS AND CRITIQUES

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY

MORE ABOUT ME
Wikipedia Entry
A Brief Biography
Photos by me and my partner on Flickr
My Library on LibraryThing

CONTACT ME

This website is archived on the British Library's UK Web Archive.

THE GREAT QUEERS OF HISTORY

• The Suppression of Lesbian and Gay History
• Early Gay Historians
• Lists of Famous Homosexuals
• The Great Queers of History
• Gay Tombs in Westminster Abbey
• The Passions of Michelangelo
• King James I and VI
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Anthony Bacon
• The Trial of Mervyn Touchet, Earl of Castlehaven
• John, Lord Hervey: The Third Sex
• Rev. John Church, England's First Gay Minister
• William Beckford of Fonthill
• John Addington Symonds, Father of Gay History

GOTHIC LITERATURE (non-gay)
• Anthology of Gothic Readings, 1764-1840
    Historical Gothic
    The School of Terror
    The School of Horror
• Ann Radcliffe, Mistress of Udolpho
• Aesthetic Gothic Horror

QUEER CULTURE

LESBIAN HISTORY

THE QUEER CANON
Shakespeare, Whitman, Melville, Henry James, Gide, Cocteau, Censorship, etc.

THE HOMOSEXUAL PASTORAL TRADITION
in English Renaissance Literature

A HISTORY OF HOMOPHOBIA
Ancient Hebrews, Destruction of Sodom, Roman, Medieval, Heretics and Witches

A HISTORY OF HOMOEROTICA
Pornography, Libertinism, Beefcake, Limericks, Uranian Verse, Teleny, etc.

POSTMODERN QUEER THEORY
A Critique of Social Constructionism

GAY LOVE LETTERS THROUGH THE CENTURIES

THE GAY SUBCULTURE IN GEORGIAN ENGLAND

HOMOSEXUALITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
A Sourcebook of Primary Documents

THE GEORGIAN UNDERWORLD
Criinal Subcultures in 18th-Century Britain (non-gay)

GRUB STREET CHRONICLES
Early Eighteenth Century Newspaper Reports: A Sourcebook (non-gay)