Tag: Homosexuality and literature

Posted in History Literary History

Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ by Allen J. Frantzen

Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ | Allen J. Frantzen | Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of

Posted in Fiction History Literary Criticism Short Stories

Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 by Katherine V. Forrest

Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 | Katherine V. Forrest | Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring between the covers of the cheaply produced lesbian pul

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

¨Entiendes?: Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings (Series Q) by Emilie L. Bergmann; Paul Julian Smith

¨Entiendes?: Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings (Series Q) | Emilie L. Bergmann; Paul Julian Smith | ‘¨Entiendes?’ is literally translated as ‘Do you understand? Do you get it?’ But those who do ‘get it’ will also hear within this question a subtler m