"With respect to the homosocial/homosexual style, it seems to be possible to divide Victorian men among three rough categories according to class. The first includes aristocratic men and small groups of their friends and dependents, including bohemians and prostitutes; for these people, by 1865, a distinct homosexual role and culture seem already to have been in existence in England... It seems to have constituted a genuine subculture, facilitated in the face of an ideologically hostile dominant culture by money, privilege, internationalism, and for the most part, the ability to command secrecy... This role is closely related to — is in fact, through Oscar Wilde, the antecedent of — the particular stereotype that at least until recently has characterized American middle-class gay homosexuality; its strongest associations, as we have noted, are with effeminacy, transvestism, promiscuity, prostitution, continental European culture, and the arts."
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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), pp. 172-173
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009) was an American professor of English and an author in gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, queer theory and critical theory.
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