HST 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Comstock Laws, Urban Culture, Bsc Young Boys
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28 male gender was compared to other men (cid:862)wo(cid:396)ld(cid:863) complexity, size, mapping the gay world own language, own forms of communication. Female sex purity chastity for both m/f after marriage. Focus on working class, conform to middle class standards. Comstock laws, consent laws, criminal abortion statutes) Women going to college/ high school new youth culture. Urban culture of sporting men based in theaters and brothels. Young men in boarding houses could bring men to room for many nights. Walt whitman recorded male visitors (cid:862)gay wo(cid:396)ld(cid:863) Goal is to explode 3 myths: myth of isolation culture was so hostile to gays, forced them into hiding, hid identities, isolated themselves from community and other gay men pg2. Did(cid:374)"t (cid:396)egulate sodo(cid:373)y like i(cid:374) past bigger focus on female purity. 2nd argument male sexuality meant different things at the beginning of the 20th cen than at the end. Not a homo sexual if had sex with men.
