This page is under construction Overview: The Gay Subculture in Eighteenth-Century London Homosexual Terms in 18th-century Dictionaries Primary Documents All the documents faithfully reproduce the spelling, punctuation, capitalization and italicization of the original sources. You may wish to supplement this material with non-gay material reproduced in my other site, Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports 1624 The Trial of Richard Cornish         (ship master and cabin boy in Virginia) 1641 The Life and Death of John Atherton         The Bishop of Waterford, Ireland, hanged         for sodomy with his tithe proctor 1698 The Trial of Capt. Edward Rigby         (first victim of an agent provocateur) 1698 The Women's Complaint to Venus 1700s Early Newspaper Reports 1700-1720 1700 A Flaming Whip for Lechery 1701 Passion for a Catamite 1703 The Shortest Way with Whores and Rogues 1707 The Tryal and Conviction of Several Reputed Sodomites 1707 Trial of Sodomites 1707 Trials of Thomas Vaughan and Thomas Davis for blackmail conspiracy 1707 Newspaper Reports for 1707 1707 Daniel Defoe, On the Public Prosecution and Punishment of Sodomites 1707 The Woman-Hater's Lamentation 1707 The He-Strumpets 1707 Bumography, or A Touch at the Lady's Tails 1708 Almonds for Parrots Satire on effeminate men/sodomites 1708 The Rival Dutchess; or, Court Incendiary The lesbian loves of Queen Anne's favourite Abigail Masham 1709 The Dying Words of George Skelthorpe         (blackmailer) 1709 A Full and True Account of a raid on a molly house 1709 The Mollies Club 1709 Venereal Disease (i.e. can be transmitted by oral and anal intercourse between men) 1715 The Game at Flats   A song about two lesbians 1718 Jonathan Wild & Charles Hitchin (organized crime and the mollies) 1720s & earlier Some Cross-Dressing Women 1720-23 Newspaper Reports 1720-1723 1721 The Dying Speech of William Casey (robber attacks a sodomite) 1721 The Trial of George Duffus — "No harm, nothing but love" 1721 The Conspirators; or, The Case of Catiline, Part I 1721 The Conspirators; or, The Case of Catiline, Part II 1722 The Trial of John Casey (ring of robbers/blackmailers) 1722 The Trial of John Dicks — "My precious little Rogue" 1722 The Trial of Thomas Rodin —"so far from being ashamed, that he gloried in it" 1723 The Trial of Charles Banner (picking up a post-boy) 1724 Those Glorious Platonicks (satirical note on effeminate men) 1724-5 Blackmail, a Hanging, and a Masquerade Ball 1725 Trial of Goddard and Rustead for Blackmail More to come – being transferred from my old site CITATION: If you cite this Web page, please use the following citation: Rictor Norton (Ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. Updated 19 June 2008 <http://www.rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/eighteen.htm>. Return to Gay History and Literature