"A Very Proper Bostonian": Rediscovering Ogden Codman and His Late-Nineteenth-Century Queer World

Writing the Modern Histories of Homosexual England

“…94 David Doyle's account of the same-sex activities of Ogden Codman has demonstrated the ease with which the American could interact with those of similar desires in the 1890s in New York and Europe. 95 Laurel Brake has explored the manner in which, in the late 1880s and early 1890s, Charles Kains-Jackson's The Artist and Journal of Home Culture provided a site for patently homoerotic literature and art, and a recent issue of the journal Visual Culture in Britain has showcased current research on the homoerotic elements in a wider range of Victorian visual culture. 96 David Hilliard and others have located a link between homosexuality and Anglo -and Roman Catholicism, although the precise reasons for this connection are difficult to explain beyond stereotypes about celibacy, aesthetic appeal, and male fraternity.…”