HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Bsc Young Boys, Sigmund Freud, Platonic Love
13 Nov 2017
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Oscar wilde: george ives, the wilde trials (1895, wilde"s defence of platonic love, the sin of sodomy. Had sex with labor class young boys: marquess of queensberry-did not enjoy oscar wilde"s homo relationship. Oscar wilde sued for liable: michelangelo; shakespeare; david and jonathan in the book of samuel but found guilty of gross indecency . George cecil ives (1867-1950), founder of pioneering gb gay rights organization the order of chaeronea, c. 1893. Sex and love between men was allowed importance of the classics in shaping his identity. Leviticus, ch. 18, v. 22; ch. 20, v. 25; genesis ch. 19, vv. 1-38 (sodom and gomorrah) French revolutionaries and french-conquered countries decriminalized same-sex acts in private from 1790s. Execution of sodomy was abolished in continental europe. Imprisonment still existed in br, n. a. , and other places women across europe having same-sex sex largely exempt from the law. The notion of women could have sex together did not exist.
