Full name: Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality

Author: Jonathan Ned Katz Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780226426167 0226426165

In Love Stories, Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men's intimacies with men during the nineteenth century—including those of Abraham Lincoln—drawing flesh-and-blood portraits of intimate friendships and the ways in which men struggled to name, define, and defend their sexual feelings for one another. In a world before "gay" and "straight" referred to sexuality, men like Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds created new ways to name and conceive of their erotic relationships with other men. Katz, diving into history through diaries, letters, newspapers, and poems, offers us a clearer picture than ever before of how men navigated the uncharted territory of male-male desire. Similar books: The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer A Treasury of Deception by Michael Farquhar Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare by John Toohey What the Butler Saw by E. S. Turner Catastrophe by David Keys Napoleon's Privates by Tony Perrottet Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset Oh, Yikes! by Joy Masoff Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann Civilization by Roger Osborne Cotton by Stephen Yafa The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn