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[unusualmusic_lj_archive]

I'm getting the feeling that some people think that homosexuality is a relatively new phenomenom. I'm also getting the feeling that some people think that its a phenomenom that only applies to white people. I'm not surprised, based on the fact that for much of history it has been considered weird and wrong. A great deal of oppression and suppression was the result of that. So, a couple, make that several, history and current affairs books:

Homosexuality and Civilization.

Unspeakable Love: Gay and lesbian Life in the Middle East

The love of the Samurai: 1000 Years of japanese homosexuality

Genders, transgenders and Sexualities in Japan

Islamic Homosexualities:Culture, history, literature

Boy-wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities

Male daughters, female husbands:Gender and Sex in an African Society

Colonalism and Homosexuality

Queering India: Same sex love and eroticism in Indian Culture and Society

The man who was a woman and other queer tales

Tritiyaa-Prakriti:People of the Third Sex

Homosexualities

Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality and Spirituality

The Changing Ones

And just for fun:

Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity

Comments

[windbeliever.livejournal.com]

Actually, in the grand spectrum of 10,000 years of recorded human history, homosexuality is relatively new, only being in use for about 200 years. In this I speak of the word, not the act. :)

I'm not sure when the actual word was invented, but I think its been in use since the 1830s.

And you're right about homosexuality only being attributed to effeminate white men (myself being one). John Amaechi said that when he came out, an elderly white woman came up to him and said something along the lines of, "I didn't know black people could be gay..."

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

Hello!

Actually, in the grand spectrum of 10,000 years of recorded human history, homosexuality is relatively new, only being in use for about 200 years. In this I speak of the word, not the act. :)

True that.And the expression thereof varied wildly from culture to culture, apparently. And as for Mr. Amaechi, *shakes head*. At least she wasn't screaming abou the blood of Jesus being against him or something.