LINKS TO QUEERHISTORYWEBSITES LINKS TOREVIEWS OFBOOKS ON QUEERHISTORY LINKS TOREVIEWS OFBIOGRAPHIES OFGAYS AND LESBIANS BIOGRAPHY OFRICTOR NORTON Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook Hundreds of primary documents A Critique of Social Constructionsm and Postmodern Queer Theory A collection of nearly 30 essays Reviews and Critiques Bibliography of Gay and Lesbian History Gothic Literature Grub Street Chronicles Early eighteenth-century newspaper reports If you enjoyed this website or found it useful, please consider making a donation. CITATION: Rictor Norton, "Gay History and Literature: Essays by Rictor Norton", <http://rictornorton.co.uk/> updated 28 July 2010

Queer Culture Reflections on Gay History Young Hung Stud Seeks Same: The Myths Behind the Wanton Ads A History of Gay Marriage The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals Class-based Erotics The Gay News Blasphemy Trial The Great Queens 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, 1631 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 The Homosexual Pastoral Tradition An Era of Idylls Edmund Spenser Affectionate Shepherds The School of Spenser Lovely Lad and Shame-Faced Catamite The Maid in Man's Attire Faithful Friend and Doting Lover Bibliography of Pastoral Literature Books by Rictor Norton Mother Clap's Molly House My Dear Boy Gothic Readings 1764-1840 Mistress of Udolpho Myth of the Modern Homosexual Sex Doctors and Sex Crimes Sodomites, Mollies, Sapphists and Tommies See Review

The Queer Canon The Homophobic Imagination Critical Censorship of Gay Literature William Shakespeare's Sonnets Walt Whitman, Prophet of Gay Liberation Herman Melville's Novels Henry James's The Turn of the Screw Andre Gide's Recovery of the Old Adam Jean Cocteau's White Paper on Homophobia Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Gay Love Letters My Dear Boy anthology Gay Love Letters through the Centuries Emperor Marcus Aurelius (c. AD 139) Flavius Philostratos (c. 3rd century) Paulinus of Nola & Ausonius (c. 4th century) Bo Juyi & Yuan Zhen (early 9th century) Saint Anselm (c. 1071–1075) Some Early Medieval Clerics Baudri of Bourgeuil (early 12th century) A Spanish Monk (c. 1100) Marsilio Ficino (1473) Pietro Aretino (1528) Michelangelo (1533) Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet (1573) King James and the Duke of Buckingham (1620-23) Francisco Correa Netto to Manoel Viegas (1664) Mashida Toyonoshin, a Samurai (1667) Thomas Gray (1716-1771) John, Lord Hervey (1727–1731) Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1746, 1762) Johannes von Muller to Charles-Victor de Bonstetten (1774-1802) Alexander Hamilton (1779-80) Heinrich von Kleist (1805) William Beckford (1807) Lord Byron (1807) Thomas Jefferson Withers (1826) Hans Christian Andersen (1840s) Fanny and Stella Edmund Gosse (1879–1883) Tchaikovsky's Gay Love-Letters

Lesbian History The Nature of Lesbian History Catharina alias Anastasius Lesbian Pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read Tommies and the Game of Flats Lesbian Marriages in 18th century England Romantic Friendships among Women Anne Lister, The First Modern Lesbian Political Definitions of 'The Lesbian' The Gay Subculture in Georgian England The Gay Subculture in 18th-century London The Raid on Mother Clap's Molly House The Sodomites' Walk in Moorfields Maiden Names and Little Sports Caterwauling (Sexual Behaviour) Public Rage (Homophobia) Blackmail The First Public Debate about Homosexuality in England, 1772 The Vere Street Coterie, 1810 The Bishop of Clogher A History of Homophobia Homophobia and the Ancient Hebrews The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah The Later Roman Empire & The Early Middle Ages Gay Heretics and Witches The Medieval Basis of Modern Law A History of Homoerotica A History of Gay Sex Problems of Pornography High Moral Climates England's First Pornographer Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal The Beginnings of Beefcake Aleister Crowley's White Stains Bawdy Limericks Naked as Bacchus Flower in Broken Leaf Blessed are the Puer in Heart