Gay History – Willem Arondeus
“Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.” Willem Arondeus Willem Arondeus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was
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Retro – Electric Youth Magazine
Retro photos for Electric Youth Magazine. Memories we want to save and share with you.
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Emperor Ai of Han – “The passion of the cut sleeve.”
We’ve talked before about how the ancient Chinese story about the bitten peach became a euphemism for homosexual love, but it isn’t the only ancient Chinese story about an emperor and another guy falling in love that has essentially been trimmed down to a short coded phrase — in this case “the passion of the cut sleeve.” I know, I know, it sounds like it’s about an enthusiastic but inept tailor. It’s not — it’s about Emperor Ai of Han.
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Gay History: 2013; Vatican in a Sweat AGAIN
Catholic Church Left Red-Faced As It Emerges Priests Share Apartment Block with Europe’s Largest Gay Sauna It is already reeling from
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Gay History: The WWII Nazi Spy Gay Sex Scandal That Rocked the Senate
In 1942, the exposure of a Brooklyn townhouse where wealthy men had sex with members of the armed services led
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Asian Gay Culture and Western Influences – Part 5
Hong Kong – Gays Under Colonial Rule and A Murder Most Foul When its last Governor Christopher Patten sailed out
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Asian Gay Culture and Western Influences – Part 2
China – Gay Emperors, Cut Sleeves and Jesuit Priests For those Portuguese Catholic missionaries who set up shop in Macau,
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Asian Gay Culture and Western Influences – Part 1
Today we start a series of ten articles examining the relationship between homosexuality and the forces of history that have
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Holocaust Memorial Day: The lessons we should learn from the Nazi persecution of gay people
Benjamin Cohen PinkNews publisher Benjamin Cohen reflects on the persecution of gay people by the Nazis as Britain
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Religion – Gay Saints The Church does not want you to know about
Some people think you can’t be gay and Christian. What better way to prove them wrong than with a
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American Art: Gay Male, 1900-1969
by Richard G. Mann Encyclopedia Copyright © 2015, glbtq, Inc. Entry Copyright © 2002, glbtq, Inc. Reprinted from http://www.glbtq.com In
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History – Rent Boys – UK 1885-1957 – Part 2
Link to Part 1 Problems and Possibilities Historians have long sensed that same-sex prostitution and queer identity were intertwined.
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History – Rent Boys – UK 1885-1957 – Part 1
Jonathan Coleman University of Kentucky, jonathan.coleman@uky.edu ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION RENT: SAME-SEX PROSTITUTION IN MODERN BRITAIN, 1885-1957 Rent: Same-Sex Prostitution in
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HISTORY – The Life of Antinous
Antinous (also Antinoüs or Antinoös; Ancient Greek: Ἀντίνοος; 27 November, c. 111 – before 30 October 130) was a Bithynian
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LGBT HISTORY – 1980s AIDS crisis – SURVIVORS MEMORIES
‘No one should die alone, and no one should be in the hospital on their death beds with family calling to say “this was gods punishment”. My friends and I, men and women, acted as a protective layer for ill friends, and companion to mutual friends juggling the same, difficult reality of trying to be there, and be strong when we were losing our family right and left. Difficult times, that should never be forgotten.’
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History – Before Homosexuality: Sodomy
Sodomy is generally anal or oral sex between people or sexual activity between a person and a non-human animal (bestiality),
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Sexual Behavior of Gay Male Homosexuals
Gay Male Homosexual and Sexual Behavior of Gay Male Homosexuals The “gay male clone” was not a representative male homosexual
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HOMOSEXUALITY in Ancient Greece – Part 3
Greek Philosophers A review of the surviving historical written records from the three greatest philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will
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HISTORY – Homosexuality – Pre-modern Japan
The Gay Of The Samurai All About Homosexuality, Buddhist Monks, Samurai, and The Tokugawa Middle Class by Koichi As it
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HISTORY – Homosexuality in Ancient Greece – Part 2
“The pederastic form of same-sex relationships was a prominent feature of ancient Greece and Roman civilization. In these civilizations, male erotic interest in persons of the same sex was generally assumed to be universally present and psychologically normal, but not exclusive.” (Greenberg,Transformations of Homosexuality-Based Classifications, p. 181 in The Gender/Sexuality Reader Culture, History, Politico Economy, editors Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo.)
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HISTORY – Homosexuality in Ancient Greece – Part 1
Homosexuality in Ancient Greece Section One Homosexuality in Ancient Greece will be comprised of three sections. They will deal with
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Homosexuality as a Sin Same-sex sexual acts have a history; today they are called “homosexuality”. Before ‘homosexuality” they were called
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Homosexuality as a Political Identity “In short, the gay lifestyle – if such a chaos can, after all, legitimately be
Read moreARMING PAEDOPHILES (3) – HISTORY – AFGHANISTAN – BACHA BAZI (PLAYING WITH BOYS)
This is the final part of ARMING PAEDOPHILES trilogy. Let’s have a look at the history of Bacha Bazi (Playing
Read moreLGBT HISTORY – The Gay Holocaust
WE MUST NEVER FORGET In 1928 there was an estimated 1.2 million “out” homosexual men living in Germany. As Adolf
Read moreHISTORY – Male prostitution in ancient Greece
The Greeks also had an abundance of male prostitutes; πόρνοι pórnoi. Some of them aimed at a female clientele: the
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