Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword

• Introduction
• The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws From 1270 to 1791
• A Lesbian Execution in Germany, 1721: The Trial Records
• Sodomy and Heresy in Early Modern Switzerland
• Conceptions of Homosexuality and Sodomy in Western Europe
• Ho Hum, Another Work of the Devil: Buggery and Sodomy in Early Stuart England
• Defining Sodomy in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
• “Writhing Bedfellows”: 1826--Two Young Men From Antebellum South Carolina’s Ruling Elite Share “Extravagant Delight”
• The “Third Sex” Theory of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
• Inverts, Perverts, and Mary-Annes: Male Prostitution and the Regulation of Homosexuality in England in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
• “Stigmata of Degeneration”: Prisoner Markings in Nazi Concentration Camps
• The Pink Triangle: The Persecution of Homosexual Males in Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany
• The Homosexual Rights Movement in the United States: A Traditionally Overlooked Area of American History
• Homosexuality in History: An Annotated Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

S. J. Licala, R. P. Peterson