Encyclopedia of Homosexuality

From William A. Percy

Why the Encyclopedia went out of print by Wayne R. Dynes

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Anthropology / Ethnology	Art & Aesthetics	Classical Greece & Rome
Concepts, Terms, Theories	Counseling, Social Work	Discrimination
Economics	Education, Scholarship	Gender
Geography	Government	Groups
History	Homophobic Concepts	Intergenerational
Language	Law (Enforcement)	Leisure and Sports
Lifestyles	Literary Biographies	Literature
Media, Communications	Medical	Military
Gay and Lesbian Movement	Music	Oriental Studies
Orientations and Modes	Performing Arts	Philosophy
Political Theory	Psychology, Psychiatry	Relationships
Religion and Mythology	Roles	Rulers
Science	Sex Research	Sexual Practices
Sexual Sites	Sociology	Symbolism and Semiotics
Violence	Women	Youth

ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY

Sub-Saharan Africa Amazonia American Indian Amazons Andean Cultures Anthropology Ruth Benedict Berdache Sir Richard Burton Circumcision Hubert Fichte Gay Male Folklore Lesbian Folklore North American Indians Mexico Pacific Cultures Paleo-Siberian Peoples Shamanism Siwa Oasis Sotadic Zone Travel and Exploration Typology

ART AND AESTHETICS

(see also LITERATURE; MUSIC; PERFORMING ARTS)
Aesthetic Movement Washington Allston Visual Art Beauty Contests Rosa Bonheur Sandro Botticelli Romaine Brooks Camp Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Benvenuto Cellini Clothing Jean Cocteau Comic Strips Dance Fred Holland Day Charles Demuth Donatello Epicureanism Flower Symbolism Théodore Géricault Wilhelm von Gloeden Duncan Grant Harlem Renaissance Marsden Hartley Elisar von Kupffer Leonardo da Vinci Hans von Marées Michelangelo Buonarrotti Modernism Nude in Art Obesity Photography Pornography Sensibility Ted Shawn Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi) Taste Variety, Revue, and Cabaret Entertainment Greek Vase Painting Andy Warhol Johann Joachim Winckelmann

CLASSICAL GREECE AND ROME

Achilles Aeschines Aeschylus Alcibiades Alexander the Great Alexandria Amazons Antinous Aristophanes Aristotle Artemidoms of Daldis Athenaeus Augustine Beauty Contests Bilitis Caesar, Julius Catullus Cicero Clement of Alexandria Crete Dionysus Ephebophilia Epicureanism Etruscans Eunuchs Ganymede Gnosticism Ancient Greece Greek Anthology Gymnasia Hadrian Heliogabalus Hellenism Hellenistic Monarchies Hippocratic Corpus Homer Horace Inventor Legends Jesus Josephus Judeo-Christian Tradition Lucian of Samosata Manichaeanism Marcus Valerius Martial Mediterranean Homosexuality Classical Mythology Narcissus Nero Olympic Games Orpheus Patristic Writers Pederasty Petronius Philo of Alexandria Pindar Plato Plautus Plutarch Mary Renault Roman Emperors Ancient Rome Sappho Scythians Sicily Slavery Socrates Solon Sparta Stoicism Suetonius Symposia Tacitus Thebes Theocritus Theognis Tibullus Greek Vase Painting Vergil Zeno of Citium

CONCEPTS, TERMS, AND THEORIES

(see also HOMOPHOBIC CONCEPTS)
Active-Passive Contrast Gay Activist Adhesiveness Ageism Anarchism Androgyny Androphilia Berdache Bisexuality Bohemianism Boston Marriage Buggery Butch-Fem Relationships Calamus Camp Catamite Celibacy Class Clone Closet Color Symbolism Coming Out Gay Community Consciousness Raising Consent Constitutional Homosexuality Counterculture Cruising Dandyism Deviance and Deviation Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Dyke Gender Dysphoria Historical Semantics of Effeminacy Ego-dystonic Homosexuality Ephebophilia Etiology Etymology Faggot Fetishes Fiedler Thesis Functioning Freudian Concepts Ganymede Gay Gender Gay Ghettos Heterosexuality Homophile Homophobia Homosexuality Concept of Homosexuality Term Homosexuality Homosociality Hydraulic Metaphor Identity Incarceration Motif Ingle Sexual Intermediate Stages Inversion Labeling Lambda Latent Homosexuality Lesbianism Open Lewdness Gay Liberation Libertarian Perspectives Libertinism Love Lover Macho Medical Theories Mediterranean Homosexuality Minions and Favorites Homosexuals as a Minority Mollis Molly Houses Homosexual Movement Sexual Objectification Oppression Sexual Orientation Homosexual Panic Paranoia Particular Friendships Pederasty Pedophilia Political Theory Polymorphous Perverse Prejudice Prisons, Jails, and Reformatories Privacy Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Psychology Punk Queen Role Sadomasochism Safe Sex Self-esteem Gay Semiotics Sensibility Lesbian Separatism Sexism Sex-positive Sex-negative Shamanism Sissy Situational Homosexuality Slang Words for Homosexuals Social Construction Theory Sociobiology Sociology Sodomy Solicitation Stereotype Third Sex Trade Transsexual Transvestism Tribade Trick Typology Unisexual Uranianism Variant Victimless Crime Women's Names for Male Homosexuals

COUNSELING AND SOCIAL WORK

(see also LIFESTYLES; ORIENTATIONS AND MODES; PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY; RELATIONSHIPS; RELIGION; ROLES)
Ageism Aging AIDS Alcoholism Gay and Lesbian Asian-Americans Bisexuality Black Gay Americans Coming Out Gay Community Consciousness Raising Counseling Couples Discrimination Drugs Effeminacy Ethics Fantasies Fetishes Gender Gesture and Body Language Homophobia Homosexuality Concept of Homosexuality Identity Immigration Incidence, Frequency, and the Kinsey 0-6 Scale Labeling Latent Homosexuality Lesbianism Lifestyle Love Lover Marriage Mediterranean Homosexuality Homosexual Movement Myths and Fabrications Nature and the Unnatural Obesity Sexual Objectification Sexual Orientation Homosexual Panic Paranoia Lesbian and Gay Parents Pederasty Pedophilia Prisons, Jails, and Reformatories Prostitution Psychiatry Psychology Psychotherapy Rape of Males Role Sadomasochism Safe Sex Self-esteem Sexually Transmitted Diseases Situational Homosexuality Slang Words for Homosexuals Social Work Gay Subculture Suicide Trade Transsexual Transvestism Violence Youth

DISCRIMINATION

Gay Activist Ageism Anti-Semitism Authoritarian Personality Aversion Therapy Black Gay Americans Blackmail Canon Law Homosexuality as Capital Crime Censorship and Obscenity Christianity Common Law Consent Criminal Law Amendment Act Discrimination Exiles and Emigrants Heresy Holocaust Homophobia Immigration Inquisition Judaism Judeo-Christian Tradition Law (Major Traditions) Feudal and Royal Law Germanic Law United States Law Open Lewdness Gay Liberation Loitering McCarthyism Military Homosexuals as a Minority Homosexual Movement Myths and Fabrications Old Testament Oppression Paragraph 175 Lesbian and Gay Parents Patristic Writers Pink Triangle Police Prejudice Prisons, Jails, and Reformatories Protestantism Psychiatry Sexism Sodomy Solicitation Stereotype Suicide Victimless Crime Violence

ECONOMICS

Bars Bathhouses Brothels Class Clothing Discrimination Economics John Maynard Keynes Phone and Computer Sex Pornography Gay Press Private Presses Prostitution Resorts Gay Subculture Travel Eroticization of Working Class

EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP

Anthologies Homosexual Apologetic Bibliography Biography and Autobiography Cambridge and Oxford Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Education H. Havelock Ellis Gay Studies Gymnasia Hellenism Magnus Hirschfeld History Heinrich Hoessli Homosociality Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen Ernst Kantorowicz Alfred C. Kinsey Libraries and Archives Homosexual Movement ONE, Inc. Pederasty Public Schools L.S.A.M. von Romer Gay Students John Addington Symonds Typology Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Gustav Wyneken Youth

GENDER

Androgyny Berdache Bisexuality Butch-Fem Relationships Castrati Constitutional Homosexuality Gender Dysphoria Effeminacy Historical Semantics of Effeminacy Eunuchs Gay Male Folklore Lesbian Folklore Male Friendship Women's Romantic Friendship Gender Ghulamiyya Concept of Homosexuality Identity Sexual Intermediate Stages Lesbianism Macho Medical Theories Mukhannath Sexual Orientation Prisons, Jails, and Reformatories Queen Role Lesbian Separatism Sexism Sissy Third Sex Transsexual Transvestism Typology Women's Names for Male Homosexuals

GEOGRAPHY

Afghanistan North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Albania Alexandria Amazonia Andean Cultures Australia Austria Belgium Berlin Boston Brazil Burma Sir Richard Burton Canada Sir Roger Casement Chicago China Crete Cuba Denmark England France Social Geography Germany Gay Ghettos Modern Greece Gay Guides Haiti Alexander von Humboldt India Indonesia Iran Ireland Italy Japan Kadesh Barnea Korea Latin America London Los Angeles Mediterranean Homosexuality Mexico Netherlands New Orleans New York City Pacific Cultures Paris Philippines Poland Portugal Nikolai Przhevalski Quebec Russia and USSR San Francisco Sicily Siwa Oasis Sodom and Gomorrah Sotadic Zone Spain Sweden Thailand Travel and Exploration Turkey United States Venice Washington, DC

GOVERNMENT

(see also HISTORY; LAW AND ITS ENFORCEMENT; MILITARY; POLITICAL THEORY; RULERS)
Aeschines Alcibiades Manuel Azaña Sir Roger Casement Censorship and Obscenity Cicero Discrimination Espionage Prince Philipp zu Eulenburg Exiles and Emigrbnts Government Henry, Prince of Prussia Immigration McCarthyism Harvey Milk Minions and Favorites Homosexuals as a Minority Homosexual Movement Eleanor Roosevelt Bayard Rustin Social

GROUPS

Ageism Aging Anti-Semitism Gay and Lesbian Asian-Americans Beatniks and Hippies Black Gay Americans Bloomsbury Castrati Gay Churches Circles and Affinity Groups Class Gay Community Counterculture Ethnophaulism Eunuchs Fiedler Thesis Freemasonry Gay Ghettos Harlem Renaissance Hoboes Holocaust Homosociality North American Indians Mattachine Homosexuals as a Minority Monasticism Homosexual Movement ONE, Inc. Pink Triangle Pirates Prisons, Jails, and Reformatories Punk Rock Samurai Scientific-Humanitarian Committee Seafaring Slavery Gay Students Templars Eroticization of Working Class Youth

HISTORY

(see also CLASSICAL GREECE AND ROME; GOVERNMENT; MILITARY; MOVEMENT, GAY AND LESBIAN; RULERS)
Alexandria Anglo-Saxons Biography and Autobiography Byzantine Empire Canaanites Ancient Celts Crete Ancient Egypt England Enlightenment Etruscans Lists of Famous Homosexuals France Germany Granada Ancient Greece Harlem Renaissance Hellenistic Monarchies History Holocaust Inquisition Inventor Legends Italy Josephus Ernst Kantorowicz Mamluks McCarthyism Ancient Mesopotamia Netherlands Harold Nicolson Papacy Pink Triangle Pirates Plutarch Renaissance Roman Emperors Ancient Rome Medieval Scandinavia Scythians Sixteenth-Century Legislation Slavery Spain Sparta Stonewall Rebellion Lytton Strachey Suetonius Symposia Tacitus Templars Thebes United States Venice

HOMOPHOBIC CONCEPTS

(see also CLASSICAL GREECE AND ROME)
Aberration Abnormality Abomination Aristocratic Vice Aversion Therapy Edmund Bergler Buggery Contagion Contrary Sexual Feeling Decadence and Degeneration Disgust Faggot Fairy Fascist Perversion Fruit Homosexuality as a Denial of God Heresy Homophobia Immaturity Theory Inversion Infamy Injustice Collecting Inquisition Moral Insanity McCarthyism Medical Theories Myths and Fabrications Nameless Sin Nature and the Unnatural Homosexual Panic Paranoia Perversion Pink Triangle Prejudice Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Queer Recruitment Concept Sissy Slang Words for Homosexuals Sodomy Stereotype Teleology Usury

INTERGENERATIONAL

(see also CLASSICAL GREECE AND ROME)
Ageism Aging Horatio Alger Antinous George Gordon Lord Byron Ralph Chubb Coming Out Consent Ephebophilia Benedict Friedlaender Ganymede Wilhelm von Gloeden Greek Anthology Hadrian Hoboes Islam John Henry Mackay Michelangelo Pederasty Pedophilia Prisons, Jails, and Reformatories Prostitution Punk Recruitment Concept Frederick Rolfe Samurai Sotadic Zone Typology Walt Whitman Youth

LANGUAGE

(see also CONCEPTS, TERMS, AND THEORIES)
Roland Barthes Buggery Censorship and Obscenity Color Symbolism Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Dyke Etymology Faggot Flower Symbolism Gay Male Folklore Lesbian Folklore Gesture and Body Language Graffiti Term "Homosexuality" Humor Hypocrisy Kaliardi Labeling Language and Linguistics Gay Semiotics Slang Words for Homosexuals Women's Names for Male Homosexuals

LAW AND ITS ENFORCEMENT

Anarchism Cesare Count Beccaria Jeremy Bentham Blackmail Brothels Buggery Jean-Jacques-Régis Cambacérès Canon Law Homosexuality as Capital Crime Censorship and Obscenity Common Law Consent Criminal Law Amendment Act Decriminalization Discrimination Espionage Government Gross Indecency Incest Inquisition Károly Mária Kertbeny Law (Major Traditions) Feudal and Royal Law Germanic Law Municipal Law United States Law Legal Procedure Open Lewdness Loitering Cesare Lombroso Homosexual Movement Murderers Mystery and Detective Fiction Paragraph 175 Pedophilia Penitentials Pirates Police Pornography Prisons, Jails, and Reformatories Privacy Prostitution Rape of Males Sexual Liberty and the Law Sixteenth-Century Legislation Sodomy Solicitation Solon Victimless Crime Violence Wolfenden Report

LEISURE AND SPORTS

Athletics Bars Bathhouses Beaches Beauty Contests Drugs Gay Games Gay Guides Gymnasia Lifestyle Mardi Gras and Masked Balls Olympic Games Resorts Symposia Television William Tilden Transvestism in Entertainment Travel and Exploration Variety, Revue, and Cabaret Entertainment Tom Waddell

LIFESTYLES

(see also LEISURE AND SPORTS)
Gay Activist Aging Asceticism Bars Beatniks and Hippies Bohemianism Camp Celibacy Clone Clothing Coming Out Gay Community Counterculture Dandyism Drugs Effeminacy Exiles and Emigrés Gay Ghetto Hoboes Identity Lifestyle Macho Prisons, Jails, and Reformatories Prostitution Punk Rock Sadomasochism Seafaring Lesbian Separatism Gay Subculture Taste Transvestism

Anthropology / Ethnology	Art & Aesthetics	Classical Greece & Rome
Concepts, Terms, Theories	Counseling, Social Work	Discrimination
Economics	Education, Scholarship	Gender
Geography	Government	Groups
History	Homophobic Concepts	Intergenerational
Language	Law (Enforcement)	Leisure and Sports
Lifestyles	Literary Biographies	Literature
Media, Communications	Medical	Military
Gay and Lesbian Movement	Music	Oriental Studies
Orientations and Modes	Performing Arts	Philosophy
Political Theory	Psychology, Psychiatry	Relationships
Religion and Mythology	Roles	Rulers
Science	Sex Research	Sexual Practices
Sexual Sites	Sociology	Symbolism and Semiotics
Violence	Women	Youth

LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES AND STUDIES

Abu Nuwas J. R. Ackerley Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd Fersen Aeschylus l´Alcibiade Fanciullo a Scola Horatio Alger Hans Christian Andersen Margaret Anderson Aretino Aristophanes Artemidorus of Daldis Athenaeus W. H. Auden James Baldwin Honoré de Balzac Herman Bang Djuna Barnes Natalie Barney Richard Barnfield Sylvia Beach William Beckford Biography and Autobiography Bloomsbury François le Metel de Boisrobert Jane Bowles John Horne Burns Sir Richard Burton George Gordon Lord Byron Truman Capote Willa Cather Catullus Constantine P. Cavafy Luis Cernuda Miguel de Cervantes Ralph Chubb Cicero Jean Cocteau Colette Louis Couperus Noel Coward Hart Crane René Crevel Aleister Crowley Dante Alighieri Giovanni Della Casa Emily Dickinson Hilda Doolittle Alfred, Lord Douglas Norman Douglas Robert Duncan T. S. Eliot Hubert Fichte Ronald Firbank Janet Flanner Gustave Flaubert E. M. Forster Henry B. Fuller Jean Genet Stefan George André Gide Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Paul Goodman Jacob Israel de Haan Hafiz Radclyff Hall Ernest Hemingway Guy Hocquenghem Homer Horace A. E. Housman Ibycus Christopher Isherwood Max Jacob Hans Henny Jahnn Henry James Alfred Jarry Marcel Jouhandeau Juvenal Christian Kampmann Jack Kerouac Heinrich von Kleist Mikhail Kuzmin Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse) D. H. Lawrence Edward Lear Vernon Lee José Lezama Lima Federico Garcia Lorca Amy Lowell Lucian of Samosata John Henry Mackay Klaus Mann Thomas Mann Katherine Mansfield Christopher Marlowe Marcus Valerius Martial F. O. Matthiessen W. Somerset Maugham Robert McAlmon Carson McCullers Herman Melville Edna St. Vincent Millay Mishima Yukio Michel de Montaigne Robert de Montesquieu Henry de Montherlant H. H. Munro (Saki) Marc-Antoine Muret Harold Nicolson Frank O'Hara Joe Orton Wilfred Owen Pier Paolo Pasolini Walter Pater Joséphin Péladan Sandro Penna Antonio Pérez Fernando Pessoa Petronius Pindar August Count von Platen Plautus Angelo Poliziano Marcel Proust MaryRenault Arthur Rimbaud Earl of Rochester Frederick Rolfe Raymond Roussel Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov Rumi Vita Sackville-West Marquis de Sade Sa'di Ihara Saikaku Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin GeorgeSantayana Sappho Jean-Paul Sartre Luigi Settembrini William Shakespeare Jack Spicer Gertrude Stein E. I. Prime Stevenson John Addington Symonds Alfred Lord Tennyson Theocritus Theognis Tibullus Marina Tsvetaeva Benedetto Varchi Vergil Paul Verlaine Théophile de Viau Renée Vivien Voltaire Bruno Vogel Sylvia Townsend Warner Edward Perry Warren Anna Elisabet Weirauch Walt Whitman Oscar Wilde Tennessee Williams Johann Joachim Winckelmann Virginia Woolf Marguerite Yourcenar

LITERATURE

(see also LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES AND STUDIES)
Adhesiveness Aesthetic Movement Albertine Complex Classical Amazons Anthologies Beat Generation Bernesque Poetry Bilitis Biography and Autobiography Bloomsbury Burchiellesque Poetry Calamus Censorship and Obscenity Circles and Affinity Groups Contest Literature Fidentian Poetry Fiedler Thesis Epic of Gilgamesh Greek Anthology Humor Medieval Latin Poetry Modernism Mujun Mystery and Detective Fiction Classical Mythology Novels and Short Fiction Poetry Gay Press Private Presses Science Fiction Theatre and Drama

MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

Advertisements Censorship and Obscenity Comic Strips Communications Film Graffiti Popular Music Photography Gay Press Private Presses Gay Semiotics Television Video

MEDICAL

Aging AIDS Alcoholism Castrati Circumcision Drugs Eunuchs Hermaphrodite Hippocratic Corpus Richard von Krafft-Ebing Medical Theories Prostate Psychiatry Rape of Males Safe Sex Scythians Sexually Transmitted Diseases Transsexual Tom Waddell

MILITARY

Achilles Alcibiades Alexander the Great Amazons Caesar David and Jonathan Espionage Eugene of Savoy, Prince Frederik the Great, King of Prussia Frederik II Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor Gordon, General Charles George Josephus T. E. Lawrence General Hector Macdonald Mamluks Military Napoleon Pirates Alfred Redl Richard I, King of England Ernst Röhm Samurai Seafaring Sparta Templars Thebes

MOVEMENT, GAY AND LESBIAN

(see also DISCRIMINATION)
Gay Activist Arcadia Bilitis Hans Blüher Adolf Brand Edward Carpenter Gay, LudwigChurches Gay Community Consciousness Raising Criminal Law Amendment Act Decriminalization Discrimination Friedlaender, Benedict Gay Games Studies Gay Henry Gerber Kurt Hiller Magnus Hirschfeld Homophile Károly Mária Kertbeny Kupffer, Elisar von Lambda Gay Left Gay Liberation Mattachine Harvey Milk Homosexuals as a Minority Homosexual Movement ONE, Inc.