Men to men love stories
Love Stories
Table of Contents
Part I: Searching for Words
1. No Two Men Were Ever More Intimate
2. Dear Beloved Trio
3. A Gentle Angel Entered
Part II: Making Monsters
4. Already Do the Beastly Sodomites of Gotham Quake
5. Abominable and Detestable Crimes
6. The Man Monster
Part III: Coming Together, Coming to Terms
7. Voices of Sexes and Lusts
8. Sincere Friends
9. A Major Fell in Devotion with a Boy
I Got the Boys
Yes, I Will Talk of Walt
In the Label of CALAMUS Listen to Me!
A Heart Occupied of Love and Longing
Empty Chair, Empty Bed, Empty House
I Aspire You Would Put the Ring on My Finger Again
Part IV: Going Public
He Cannot Be Ignorant of Its Plainer Meanings
Wild with Passion
I Cannot Get Quite to the Bottom of Calamus
Ardent and Physical Intimacies
Men Given to Unnatural Practices
To Unite for Defense
A Natural, Pure, and Sound Passion
Abnormal Passion
A Much More Intimate Communion
Sex and Warmth between Men&#;Then and Now
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Love stories : sex between men before homosexuality
x, pages : 24 cm
"Abraham Lincoln arrived in Springfield, Illinois, on April 15, , and met Joshua Fry Speed, who offered the new legislator half of his double bed. The two shared that bed for more than three years, and Speed would later recall that "no two men were ever more intimate." The story of Lincoln's relationship with Speed, which opens this book, transports us into a forgotten world of love between men."
"Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men's intimacies with men in the nineteenth century, tales with all the features of a great novel: engaging characters, moving conflicts, and surprising revelations. Katz draws flesh-and-blood portraits of these intimate friendships, tracing the way men struggled to name, describe, and defend their deep feelings for one another. Some of these are love stories, some sex stories, some stories about cherish and sex
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What was it like to be a gay man in Paris in ? While researching my novel The Beasts of Paris, I couldn’t find much in 19th-century writing about homosexual treasure, and even later there are strangely few literary, queer, period-set love stories (shout outs to Sarah Waters and Mary Renault), so I’m pushing the boundaries of both ‘love story’ and ‘historical’ here. All I establish in 19th-century accounts is an occasional minor character – e.g. in Zola’s Nana – or documentary reports of police raids, or porn (thank you, Jack Saul). I delved into novels, paintings and photographs as adv as history. And if my historical period stretches from Ancient Greece to the early s – well, you take what you can get.
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