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1 - The Discovery of Homosexuality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2025
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This chapter explores how the category of homosexuality was invented and disseminated and how it became part of the self-representation of a generation of men. It explores the revelation and concealment of male desire through the archival records of J. K. Stephen, A. C. Benson, Oscar Browning, E. F. Benson, M. R. James and their friends. It analyses how a public life interfaced with a sexual identity in changing ways.
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- Queer CambridgeAn Alternative History, pp. 35 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025