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Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories Since 1600
A history of gay space in the major cities from the early modern period to the present. Providing an interdisciplinary analysis of extensive source diaries, poems, legal accounts and journalism, they explore the extent of gay space.
224 pages, Paperback
First published March 4, 1999
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dnf
February 22, 2022DNF @ 2 pages in (that’s probably my new record)
Attempted to read the chapter on London and after only two pages yeeted the text across the bathroom. Luckily, it was just a stack of photocopied papers so my bathroom door is intact but what in the fresh hell?!
So many sweeping general statements without any nuance and without sources. Some might be partially true but not written like this.
For example:
"This yearly visitation [of London] by the elite facilitated the flow of common fashions among them, not only in their clothes but also in their deepest feelings, so that over the course of a single generation in the middle of the century [18th], they gave up the arranged marriage and the wet-nurse that for centuries had set the tone of life in their families and began instead to marry for love and to nurse their infants themselves."
"By 1730 all men [in London] were divided into what by the late nineteenth century came to be called a homosexual minority and a heterosexual majority..."
"In traditional European society all adult males had desired both women and adolescent males."
Attempted to read the chapter on London and after only two pages yeeted the text across the bathroom. Luckily, it was just a stack of photocopied papers so my bathroom door is intact but what in the fresh hell?!
So many sweeping general statements without any nuance and without sources. Some might be partially true but not written like this.
For example:
"This yearly visitation [of London] by the elite facilitated the flow of common fashions among them, not only in their clothes but also in their deepest feelings, so that over the course of a single generation in the middle of the century [18th], they gave up the arranged marriage and the wet-nurse that for centuries had set the tone of life in their families and began instead to marry for love and to nurse their infants themselves."
"By 1730 all men [in London] were divided into what by the late nineteenth century came to be called a homosexual minority and a heterosexual majority..."
"In traditional European society all adult males had desired both women and adolescent males."
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