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Moran, Leslie J., Daniel Monk and Sarah Beresford (editors), Legal Queeries: Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Legal Studies, London and New York: Cassell, 1998
Norton, Rictor, Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England, 1700-1830, London: Gay Men’s Press, 1992
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Wintemute, Robert, Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: The United States Constitution, the European Convention, and the Canadian Charter, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
In order to understand the relationship of the law with the homosexual, a historical overview is essential. BRAY examines the image of the sodomite in 16th-and 17th-century literature, and demonstrates how widely that image differed from the everyday occurrences of male homosexual behaviour in ordinary households and communities. NORTON chronicles the growth of a distinctive male homosexual urban subculture in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and describes the origins of the modern gay community. Bray and Norton are not writing about the law as such, but throughout their books they give a clear account of the relationship between the law and homosexuality at that time, and the origins of the modern involvement of the law with gay men.
