Encyclopedia of Homosexuality

Aberration, Sexual

Abnormality

Abomination

Abrahamic Religions

Abu Nuwas (ca. 757–ca. 814)

Achilles

Ackerley, Joseph Randolph (1896–1967)

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Active–Passive Contrast

Activist, Gay

Adelswärd Fersen, Baron Jacques d' (1880–1923)

Adhesiveness

Adler, Alfred (1870–1937)

Adult–Adult Sexuality

Advertisements, Personal

Aeschines (ca. 397–ca. 322 b.c.)

Aeschylus (525/4–456 b.c.)

Aesthetic Movement

Afghanistan

Africa, North

Africa, Sub-Saharan

African-Americans

Ageism

Aging

Aids

Alan of Lille (ca. 1120–1203)

Albania

Albertine Complex

Alcibiade Fanciullo a Scola, L'

Alcibiades (ca. 450–404 b.c.)

Alcoholism

Aletrino, Arnold (1858–1916)

Alexander the Great (356–323 b.c.)

Alexandria

Alger, Horatio, Jr. (1832–1899)

Allston, Washington (1779–1843)

Amazonia

Amazons, American Indian

Amazons, Classical

American Indians

Anal Sex

Anarchism

Andean Cultures

Andersen, Hans Christian (1805–1875)

Anderson, Margaret (1886–1973)

Androgyny

Androphilia

Anglicanism

Anglo-Saxons

Animal Homosexuality

Anonymous Sex

Anthologies

Anthropology

Antinous

Anti-Semitism and Antihomosexuality

Apologetic, Homosexual

Aquinas, Thomas. Saint (1225–1274)

Arcadia

Archives

Aretino, Pietro (1492–1556)

Aristocratic Vice, Homosexuality as

Aristophanes (ca. 450–ca. 385 b.c.)

Aristotle (384–322 b.c.)

Army

Art, Visual

Artemidorus (late second century of our era)

Asceticism

Asian-Americans, Gay and Lesbian

Astrology

Athenaeus of Naucratis (flourished ca. a.d. 200)

Athletics

Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907–1973)

Augustine, Saint (354–430)

Australia

Austria

Authoritarian Personality

Autobiography

Autoeroticism

Aversion Therapy

Azaña, Manuel (1880–1940)

Bacon, Francis, Sir (1561–1626)

Bailey, Derrick Sherwin (1910–1984)

Baldwin, James (1924–1987)

Ballet

Balzac, Honoré de (1799–1850)

Bang, Herman (1857–1912)

Banneker, Benjamin (1731–1806)

Banquets

Barnes, Djuna (1892–1981)

Barney, Natalie Clifford (1876–1972)

Barnfield, Richard (1574–1627)

Bars

Barthes, Roland (1915–1980)

Bathhouses

Beach, Sylvia (Nancy) (1887–1962)

Beaches

Beat Generation

Beats and Hippies

Beauty Competitions

Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana, Marquis (1738–1794)

Beckford, William (1760–1844)

Belgium

Beloved Disciple

Benedict, Ruth F. (1887–1948)

Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832)

Berdache

Bergler, Edmund (1899–1962)

Berlin

Bernesque Poetry

Bèze, Théodore de (1519–1605)

Bibliography

Bilitis

Biography and Autobiography

Biology

Birds and Avian Symbolism

Bisexuality

Black Gay Americans

Blackmail

Bloch, Iwan (1872–1922)

Bloomsbury

Blüher, Hans (1888–1955)

Body Language

Bohemianism

Boisrobert, François Le Metel de (1592–1662)

Bondage

Bonding

Bonheur, Rosa (1822–1899)

Boston

Boston Marriage

Botticelli, Sandro (Alessandro di Mariano Felipepi; ca. 1444–1510)

Botto, Antonio

Bowles, Jane (1917–1973)

Brand, Adolf (1874–1945)

Brazil

Britain

Britten, Benjamin (1913–1976)

Brooks, Romaine Goddard (1874–1970)

Brothels

Buddhism

Buggery

Burchiellesque Poetry

Burma

Burns, John Horne (1916–1953)

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1821–1890)

Butch–Fem (Lesbian) Relationships

Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824)

Byzantine Empire

Cabaret

Caesar, [Gaius] Julius (100–44 b.c.)

Calamus

Cambacérès, Jean-Jacques Régis de (1753–1824)

Cambridge and Oxford

Camp

Canaanites

Canada

Canon Law

Capital Crime, Homosexuality as a

Capote, Truman (1924–1984)

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (1571–1610)

Carnival

Carpenter, Edward (1844–1929)

Cartoons

Casement, Roger (1864–1916)

Castrati

Castration

Catamite

Cather, Willa (1873–1947)

Catholic Church

Catullus, Gaius Valerius (87–54 b.c.)

Cavafy, Constantine P. (1863–1935)

Celibacy

Cellini, Benvenuto (1500–1571)

Celts, Ancient

Censorship and Obscenity

Cernuda, Luis (1902–1963)

Cervantes, Miguel de (1547–1616)

Chastity

Chicago

Children

China

Chizh, Vladimir Fiodorovich (1855–19?)

Christianity

Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626–1689)

Chrysostom, John, Saint (ca. 347–407)

Chubb, Ralph Nicholas (1892–1960)

Churches, Gay

Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106–43 B. C.)

Cinema

Circles and Affinity Groups

Circumcision

Class

Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150–ca. 215)

Clergy, Gay

Clift, Montgomery (1920–1966)

Cliques

Clone

Closet

Clothing

Cocteau, Jean (1889–1963)

Colette (1873–1954)

Color Symbolism

Comedy

Comics

Coming Out

Common Law

Communications

Community

Consciousness Raising

Consent

Conservatism

Constitutional Homosexuality

Contagion

Contest Literature

Contrary Sexual Feeling

Counseling

Counterculture

Couperus, Louis (1863–1923)

Couples

Corvo, Baron

Coward, Noel, Sir (1899–1973)

Crane, Hart (1899–1932)

Crete

Crevel, René (1900–1935)

Criminal Law Amendment Act

Cross-Dressing

Crowley, Aleister (1875–1947)

Cruising

Cuba

Cult Prostitution

Cunnilingus

Damian, Peter, Saint (ca. 1007–1072)

Dance

Dandyism

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

Daughters of Bilitis

David and Jonathan

Day, F. Holland (1864–1933)

Decadence

Decriminalization

Della Casa, Giovanni (1503–1556)

Demographic Factors

Demuth, Charles (1883–1935)

Denmark

Detective Stories

Deviance and Deviation

Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich (1872–1929)

Dickinson, Emily (1830–1886)

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Dionysus

Discrimination

Disgust

Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; ca. 1386–1466)

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.; 1886–1961)

Douglas, Alfred, Lord (1870–1945)

Douglas, Norman (1868–1952)

Drag

Drama

Dreams

Drugs

Duncan, Robert Edward (1919–1988)

Dyke

Dysphoria, Gender

Eastern Roman Empire

Economics

Education

Edward II (1284–1327)

Effeminacy

Effeminacy, Historical Semantics of

Ego-Dystonic Homosexuality

Egypt, Ancient

Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888–1965)

Ellis, Havelock (1859–1939)

Employment

Encyclopedias

England

Enlightenment

Enrique IV

Ephebophilia

Epicureanism

Episcopalianism

Espionage

Ethics

Ethnology

Ethnophaulism

Etiology

Etruscans

Etymology

Eugene, Prince of Savoy (1663–1736)

Eulenburg und Hertefeld, Philipp Fürst zu (1847–1921)

Eunuchs

Exiles and Émigrés

Faggot

Fairy

Falla, Manuel de (1876–1946)

Famous Homosexuals, Lists of

Fantasies

Fascism

Fascist Perversion, Belief in

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (1945–1982)

Fellatio

Ferenczi, Sandor (1873–1933)

Fetishism

Fichte, Hubert (1935–1986)

Ficino, Marsilio (1433–1499)

Fiction

Fidentian Poetry

Fiedler Thesis

Film

Firbank, Ronald (1886–1926)

Flanner, Janet (“Genet”; 1892–1978)

Flaubert, Gustave (1821–1880)

Florence

Flower Symbolism

Folklore, Gay Male

Folklore, Lesbian

Forster, E[dward] M[organ] (1879–1970)

Foucault, Michel (1926–1984)

Fourier, Charles (1772–1837)

France

Frederick II (1197–1250)

Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia (1712–1786)

Freedom, Sexual

Freemasonry

Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)

Freudian Concepts

Friedlaender, Benedict (1866–1908)

Friendship, Female Romantic

Friendship, Male

Fruit

Fuller, Henry Blake (1857–1929)

Functioning

Fundamentalism

Games, Gay

Ganymede

García Lorca, Federico

Gay

Gay Liberation

Gay Rights

Gay Studies

Gender

Gender Dysphoria

Genet, Jean (1910–1986)

Geography, Social

George, Stefan (1868–1933)

Gerber, Henry (1892–1972)

Géricault, Theodore (1791–1824)

Germanic Law

Germany

Gesture and Body Language

Ghettos, Gay

Ghulamiyya

Gide, Andre (1869–1951)

Gilgamesh

Gloeden, Wilhelm, Baron von (1856–1931)

Gnosticism

God, Homosexuality as a Denial of

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832)

Goodman, Paul (1911–1972)

Gordon, Charles George (1838–1885)

Government

Graffiti

Granada

Grant, Duncan (1885–1978)

Greece, Ancient

Greece, Modern

Greek Anthology

Grierson, Francis (1848–1927)

Griffes, Charles Tomlinson (1884–1920)

Gross Indecency

Guides, Gay

Guyon, René Charles Marie(1876–1961)

Gymnasia

Haan, Jacob Israel de (1881–1924)

Hadrian (76–138)

Hafiz (ca. 1320–ca. 1390)

Haiti

Hall, Radclyffe (1880–1943)

Handballing

Harlem Renaissance

Hartley, Marsden (1877–1943)

Heliogabalus (also known as Elagabalus; 204–222)

Hellenism

Hellenistic Monarchies (323–31 b.c.)

Hemingway, Ernest (1899–1961)

Henri III of France (1551–1589)

Henry, Prince (1726–1802)

Heresy

Hermaphrodite

Heterosexuality

Hiller, Kurt (1885–1972)

Hippies

Hippocratic Corpus

Hirschfeld, Magnus (1868–1935)

History

Hoboes

Hocquenghem, Guy (1946–1988)

Hoessli, Heinrich (1784–1864)

Holocaust, Gay

Homer

Homophile

Homophile Movement

Homophobia

Homosexual (Term)

Homosexuality

Homosexuality (Origins of the Modern Concept)

Homosociality

Horace (65–8 b.c.)

Housman, A[lfred] E[dward] (1859–1936)

Hudson, Rock (Roy Scherer Fitzgerald; 1925–1985)

Humboldt, Alexander Freiherr von (1769–1859)

Humor

Hustlers

Hydraulic Metaphor

Hypocrisy

Ibycus (sixth century b.c.)

Identity

Immaturity Theory

Immigration

Impersonal Sex and Casual Sex

Incarceration Motif

Incest

Incidence, Frequency, and the Kinsey 0–6 Scale

India

Indians of North America

Indo-European Pederasty

Indonesia

Infamy

Ingle

Injustice Collecting

Inquisition

Insanity, Moral

Intermediate Stages, Sexual

Intertestamental Literature

Inventor Legends

Inversion

Iran

Ireland

Irrumation

Isherwood, Christopher (1904–1986)

Islam

Italy

Jacob, Max (1876–1944)

Jahnn, Hans Henny (1894–1959)

Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen

Jails

James I (1566–1625)

James, Henry (1843–1916)

Japan

Jarry, Alfred (1873–1907)

Jesus (d. ca. 29)

John, Apostle

Jonathan

Josephus, Flavius (37–ca. 105)

Jouhandeau, Marcel (1888–1979)

Juan II of Castile (1405–1454); Enrique IV of Castile (1425–1474)

Judaism, Post-Biblical

Judaism, Sephardic

Judeo-Christian Tradition

Jung, Carl Gustav (1875–1961)

Juvenal (67–ca. 140)

Juveniles

Ķādēsh

Kadesh Barnea

Kaliardá

Kampmann, Christian (1939–1988)

Kantorowicz, Ernst (1895–1963)

Kerouac, Jack (1922–1969)

Kertbeny, Károly Mária (Karl Mária Benkert; 1824–1882)

Keynes, John Maynard (1883–1946)

Kinsey, Alfred C. (1894–1956)

Kleist, Heinrich von (1777–1811)

Korea

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von (1840–1902)

Kupffer, Elisàrvon (1872–1942)

Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872–1936)

Labeling

Lambda

Language and Linguistics

Latent Homosexuality

Latin America

Lautréamont, Comte de (pseudonym of Isidore Ducasse; 1846–1870)

Law (Major Traditions in the West)

Law, British

Law, Canon

Law, Common

Law, Feudal and Royal

Law, Germanic

Law, Municipal

Law, Roman

Law, United States

Lawrence, David Herbert (1885–1930)

Lawrence, Thomas Edward (1888–1935)

Leadbeater, Charles Webster (1854–1934)

Lear, Edward (1812–1888)

Lee, Vernon (1856–1935)

Left, Gay

Legal Procedure

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

Lesbian Separatism

Lesbianism

Lewdness, Open or Public

Lezama Lima, José (1910–1976)

Liberace, Wladziu Valentino (1919–1987)

Liberalism

Liberation, Gay

Libertarian Perspectives

Libertinism

Libraries and Archives

Lifestyle

Llangollen, Ladies of

Loitering

Lombroso, Cesare (1836–1909)

London

Lorca, Federico García (1898–1936)

Los Angeles

Louis XIII (1601–1643)

Love

Lover

Lowell, Amy Lawrence (1874–1925)

Lucian (ca. 120–ca. 185)

Ludwig II (1845–1886)

Lully, Jean-Baphste (1632–1687)

Lynes, George Platt (1907–1955)