A collection of notes, titles, citations, thoughts, images, acknowledgements, etc. relating to a senior thesis on the intellectual history of male homosexuality in the 19th century.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
So far as Wilde’s mature sexuality was concerned, what distinguished him, and men such as Symonds and Douglas, from the general run of English aristocrats who had enjoyed (and in some cases, continued to enjoy) casual all male sex, was their attempt to invent a language for their passion. They differed, too, in placing homosexual love at the centre of their lives and in championing it as a political cause.
Wright, Built of Books, p. 94
