Homophobia: a history

Abstract

Before homophobia?: "Homosexuality and "homophobia" in antiquity -- Inventing Sodom: Sodom and homosexual behavior in the Old and New Testaments -- A thousand years of Sodomy: defining sodomy, 500-1400 -- Lighting bonfires: sodomy and anxiety in the Renaissance -- Sodomy and the Enlightenment: unmasking and punishing sodomites, 1700-1860 -- Victorian secrets: Uranians, inverts, perverts, and homosexuals, 1850-1910 -- New world homophobia: sodomy and persecution in America, 1500-1900 -- Normal homosexuals: homophobia and resistance in the twentieth century