Georges Eekhoud was put on trial in October 1900, accused of depicting homosexuality in his 1899 novel Escal-Vigor. The trial engendered a unique series of events in Belgian contemporary public ...discourse: a debate on homosexuality in a country where such topics were usually completely ignored or condemned. Surprisingly, the debate that focused on the novel in newspapers was not entirely opposed to Eekhoud, who was finally acquitted in his trial. The publicity had an effect that was the opposite of what was hoped for by the authorities: Escal-Vigor went from obscurity to popularity, with six printings by 1901. A study of the public, private and literary debate surrounding the trial will allow us a glimpse of a brief moment in history where gay literature was at the centre of attention and ask ourselves what influence it had on the lot of homosexuals at the time.
This article reads sexological case studies of the fin-de siècle that contain accounts of trans women's lives in the period. It argues that these sources contradict the diagnostic criteria that ...doctors determine as the factors that define trans feminine identity in the period: desire for men, social isolation, and tortured bodily dissatisfaction. Chief among these contradictions is the prevalence of the expression of trans women's desire for women and easy participation in women's social and kinship networks. Therefore, this article considers these narratives to be a crucial and overlooked resource for considering the breadth of lesbian identity and sociality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Identities and Place Katherine Crawford-Lackey; Megan E. Springate
11/2019
eBook
With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent
history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth
century onward and the places associated with these communities.
...Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific
places: places where people gather, socialize, protest, mourn, and
celebrate. The focus is deeper look at how sexually variant and
gender non-conforming Americans constructed identity, created
communities, and fought to have rights recognized by the
government. Each chapter is accompanied by prompts and activities
that invite readers to think critically and immerse themselves in
the subject matter while working collaboratively with others.
The project of collecting and preserving lesbian and gay oral history was more than a method; it was a movement. It was a means to break down the barrier between everyday people and the chroniclers ...of history and a tool to empower marginalized communities by teaching everyday people how to tell their own stories so that they might write their own lives into the historical record, on their own terms. The Internet provides a tremendous opportunity to disseminate these valuable oral history interviews. This article explores the conflict between the liberationist impulse to uncover and make visible the queer past and issues of privacy that arise when recorded interviews that often contain detailed and intimate information can be accessed easily, and out of their original context.
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Unveiling the forbidden Borgström, Eva
NORA : Nordic journal of women's studies,
2016, Letnik:
24, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Inneholder sammendrag
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In this essay, I examine the mobilisation of lesbian history in the construction and support of the idea of a Japanese lesbian community. I begin in postwar Japan, when we can find evidence for a ...sense of community among women who link their identities to their desire for other women, and when we see the first generation of women who identify as and generate a discourse about being 'lesbian' (resubian or rezubian). Specifically, I look at several key moments in lesbian discourse to identify shifts in the way lesbian history has been mobilised. I first examine writing on lesbianism in the popular press leading up to and overlapping with the putative start of the lesbian community in 1971, discourse wherein, reflecting sexological tradition, references to ancient Greece and other cultures remained common. I then consider popular writing produced within the lesbian community during what I label the long 1990s, a decade sometimes referred to as having experienced a 'gay boom' in the mass media and which witnessed an increase in visibility of what was then called the 'lesbian and gay community'. During this period we can see a clear turn toward mapping out a modern and contemporary Japanese lesbian history, a process that has entailed overt acts of reclamation as well as omission. Finally, by way of a coda, I look at recent academic works that might be located in the gradually expanding field of lesbian studies, in which the past that has been mobilised as Japanese lesbian history has sometimes been repurposed and reconsidered, or challenged by the individuals whose stories are being retold.
This article discusses an unpublished book by the popular and prolific novelist Pamela Frankau (1908-67), which was rejected by her publishers in 1946 as "almost too personal for publication," and ...which for many years was believed lost. The work is addressed to Frankau's dead lover, Marjorie Vernon Whitefoord (1907-44), a fellow officer in the women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, and takes the form of a letter to Vernon. The article examines what Frankau's unpublished narrative of love and loss in wartime reveals about her life and later novels, and its implications for the official record of her life and writing.
This article suggests ways that Web 2.0 tools can help revive the grassroots democratic imperative of LGBTQ oral history in particular and LGBTQ archives in general by creating paths that allow users ...to overcome myriad barriers experienced when trying to access resources on university campuses and that facilitate community engagement. Open-access and digital environments encourage collaborative knowledge construction across time and space; thus the digital humanities provide a democratic platform that supports oral history's antihierarchical and anti-elitist imperatives. One of the major concerns expressed about the current shift of LGBTQ materials from community-based archives to institutional libraries, archives, and special collections is that collections will no longer be shaped by LGBTQ praxis. This article proposes a way to use Web 2.0 affordances to facilitate and encourage robust and ongoing community involvement that will strengthen the connection between archives users and archives managers and will help shape the archives themselves.
In 1977, Anita Bryant — the American Southern Baptist, singer, and spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission — founded the right-wing Christian Save Our Children campaign in order to overturn a ...Florida county ordinance that legislated the protection of civil rights for Dade County gays. Six months later, Bryant was invited to visit Toronto, Canada, by Christian minister Ken Campbell of Renaissance International — the homegrown Canadian version of the Christian Evangelical movement. Bryant's visit took place at a complicated historical and political juncture for the Canadian gay and lesbian community: the gay liberation paper of record, The Body Politic, had published an article about adult-child sexual relationships and was subsequently raided by the police; a young boy had been killed in a reported “homosexual orgy”; and the Ontario Human Rights Commission had recently recommended that “sexual orientation” be included in the Human Rights Code — but whether the recommendation would be included remained to be seen. This essay will analyze how Bryant's defeat of the Dade county ordinance and visits to Canada, the controversial article in The Body Politic, and the subsequent police raid on the newspaper provoked mass organizing, protests, and laid the basis for future anti-right organizing in the Canadian gay and lesbian liberation movement — but also exposed the limits of solidarity between gays and lesbians. The tumultuous context that shaped the Canadian gays' and lesbians' responses, analyses, and engagements as well as conflicts with each other will bring to light the unities, dis-unities, and differences within.
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This open access book investigates how people re-imagined the idea of the unique self in the period from 1762 to 1917. Some used the notion of the unique self to justify their gender and sexual ...transgression, but others rejected the notion of the unique self and instead demanded the sacrifice of the self for the good of society. The substantial introductory chapter places these themes in the cultural context of the long nineteenth century, but the book as a whole represents an alternative method for studying the self. Instead of focusing on the thoughts of great thinkers, this book explores how five unusual individuals twisted conventional ideas of the self as they interpreted their own lives. These subjects include: * The Chevalièr/e d’Eon, a renegade diplomat who was outed as a woman * Anne Lister, who wrote coded diaries about her attraction to women * Richard Johnson, who secretly criticized the empire that he served * James Hinton, a Victorian doctor who publicly advocated philanthropy and privately supported polygamy * Edith Ellis, a socialist lesbian who celebrated the ‘abnormal’ These five case studies are skilfully used to explore how the notion of the unique individual was used to make sense of sexual or gender non-conformity. Yet this queer reading will go beyond same-sex desire to analyse the issue of secrets and privacy; for instance, what stigma did men who practiced or advocated unconventional relationships with women incur? Finally, Clark ties these unusual lives to the wider questions of ethics and social justice: did those who questioned sexual conventions challenge political traditions as well? This is a highly innovative study that will be of interest to intellectual historians of modern Britain and Europe, as well as historians of gender and sexuality. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
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