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

HOMOSEXUALITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND A Sourcebook of Primary Documents

THE GAY SUBCULTURE IN GEORGIAN ENGLAND

 
GAY LOVE LETTERS THROUGH THE CENTURIES

LESBIAN HISTORY

 
THE GREAT QUEERS OF HISTORY

THE QUEER CANON

 
CRITIQUE OF QUEER THEORY REVIEWS AND CRITIQUES

 
HOMOSEXUALITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND A Sourcebook of Primary Documents JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS

 
QUEER CULTURE

THE HOMOSEXUAL PASTORAL TRADITION

 
A HISTORY OF HOMOPHOBIA

A HISTORY OF HOMOEROTICA

 
GEORGIAN LIFE AND LITERATURE
My other website, on non-gay topics relating to 18th-century Britain
BOOKS BY RICTOR NORTON
Mother Clap's Molly House
My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries
Gothic Readings 1764-1840
Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Anne Radcliffe
Eighteenth Century British EroticaPart II
Myth of the Modern Homosexual
Reissued by Bloomsbury Academic Editions in October 2016
 
MORE ABOUT ME
Interview with me on Notches Blog
Wikipedia Entry
A Brief Biography
Photos by me and my partner on Flickr
My Library on LibraryThing
My Facebook page

My email is
rictor_norton@yahoo.co.uk
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This website is archived on the British Library's UK Web Archive.

LINKS
Links to Queer History Websites
Bibliography of Gay and Lesbian History

WHAT'S NEW
My Podcast about Molly Houses for History Hit
Sodom, or The Quintessence of Debauchery
The Sodomite Popes, 1609
A Gallery of Beautiful Boys, 1624
Trial of the Earl of Castlehaven
Newspaper Reports for 1893
A Tragic New Year's Eve, 1744
• Added explicit testimony from the sodomy trial of Samuel Foote in 1776.

Updated 3 June 2023