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
I wonder if there’s anything to the notion that working-class men favored a G.I. model because they were more used to encountering women in their daily lives. They’d know how to dress and act like women, and know why dressing and acting like women would, e.g., get them into situations where they’d be able to have sex with men. Upper-class men would have been at boarding school and Oxbridge, easily able to avoid women entirely until they got married. Naturally they’d want to perpetuate their homosocial environment, not replicate a heterosexual one—and naturally they’d thus seek to justify it through the tools such as Hellenism at their disposal.
