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Harvey, A. D.
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Norton, Rictor
"Recovering Gay History from the Old Bailey", The London Journal, 30, 1 (2005): 39-54. Abstract: Trials for sodomitical offences at the Old Bailey provide evidence not only for a gay subculture and a collective gay identity in the 'molly houses' of eighteenth-century London, but also for a personal homosexual identity among 'sodomites' and 'indorsers' whose activity seems limited mainly to cruising grounds and bog-houses. This article argues that although homosexual prosecutions appear to focus primarily upon a sexual act, they can be used to understand an underlying sexual orientation. By exploring the impediments to recovering gay history from criminal records – the distortions caused by a narrow focus on strictly jurisprudential issues, such as the misrepresentation of consenting relations as 'criminal assault' or the legalistic discourse of 'sodomy'; a narrow sexological focus on strictly sexual behaviour, such as 'active'/'passive' 'roles'; and doctrinaire claims about 'the homosexual' not being 'constructed' until modern times – this article lays the foundation for a history of being gay in eighteenth-century London. It argues that a precise focus on the broader sociocultural content of trials, newspaper reports and satires can uncover a history of recognisably gay men.
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the first time in European history, there emerged three genders: men,
women, and a third gender of adult effeminate sodomites, or
homosexuals. This third gender had radical consequences for the sexual
lives of most men and women since it promoted an opposing ideal of
exclusive heterosexuality."
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