The History of Homosexuality, Part 3

In the third of his four lectures on the history of homosexuality in early modern Europe, Sir Noel Malcolm eludcidates the very different patterns of male-male sexual behavior between Southern Europe and Northern Europe.  He also examines the camp behaviors and cross-dressing that occurred in the "molly houses" (somewhat equivalent to gay bars) in early 1700s England. 

Along the way, he demolishes the pernicious assertion of Michel Foucault and other writers that "homosexuals" by whatever name they were called simply did not exist in the pre-modern era. Of course they did. We have always been part of the human race, a natural variation, just as in the animal kingdom.  See my recommended reading list under Sir Noel's first lecture here.

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