Image of two men kissingGay History and Literature: Essays by Rictor Norton

LINKS TO QUEER
HISTORY
WEBSITES

LINKS TO
REVIEWS OF
BOOKS ON QUEER
HISTORY

LINKS TO
REVIEWS OF
BIOGRAPHIES OF
GAYS AND LESBIANS

 


    The Homosexual Pastoral Tradition
  1. An Era of Idylls
  2. Edmund Spenser
  3. Affectionate Shepherds
  4. The School of Spenser
  5. Lovely Lad and Shame-Faced Catamite
  6. The Maid in Man's Attire
  7. Faithful Friend and Doting Lover
  8. Bibliography of Pastoral Literature


REVIEWS AND CRITIQUES


BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY

A CRITIQUE OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND POSTMODERN QUEER THEORY
A collection of nearly 30 essays

 


    Gay Love Letters
  1. My Dear Boy anthology
  2. Gay Love Letters through the Centuries
  3. Emperor Marcus Aurelius (c. AD 139)
  4. Flavius Philostratos (c. 3rd century)
  5. Paulinus of Nola & Ausonius (c. 4th century)
  6. Bo Juyi & Yuan Zhen (early 9th century)
  7. Saint Anselm (c. 1071–1075)
  8. Some Early Medieval Clerics
  9. Baudri of Bourgeuil (early 12th century)
  10. A Spanish Monk (c. 1100)
  11. Marsilio Ficino (1473)
  12. Pietro Aretino (1528)
  13. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
  14. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1746, 1762)
  15. Lord Byron (1807)
  16. Fanny and Stella
  17. Edmund Gosse (1879–1883)
  18. Tchaikovsky's Gay Love-Letters


HOMOSEXUALITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND: A Sourcebook
Hundreds of primary documents

GRUB STREET CHRONICLES Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports

GOTHIC LITERATURE
 

BIOGRAPHY OF
RICTOR NORTON

CITATION: Rictor Norton, "Gay History and Literature: Essays by Rictor Norton", updated
4 May 2008
<http://rictornorton.co.uk/>