Both books, as you can tell, deal with homosexuality (especially male homosexuality, although Robb does also deal with women to some extent) in the nineteenth century. I’d like to zoom in on two of them in this diary: Jonathan Ned Katz’s Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (2001) and Graham Robb’s Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (2003). This time, rather than plumbing the depths of one book, I thought it would be more interesting to write about a larger historical debate in which many different books are engaged. Usually, any LGBTQ Literature diary I write is a deep-dive into one particular LGBTQ history book. I decided to approach this diary a little differently than I normally do. Hopefully, the wait will have been worthwhile. Sorry again about the snafu with the March diary and the week-long delay. Good evening, faithful LGBTQ Literature readers.
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LGBTQ Literature posts on the last Sunday of every month at 7:30 PM EST. From fiction to contemporary nonfiction to history and everything in between, any literature that touches on LGBTQ themes is welcome in this series. LGBTQ Literature is a Readers and Book Lovers series dedicated to discussing literature that has made an impact on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.
