Commissioner Foucault, Inspector Noel, and the "Pederasts" of Paris, 1780-3

Merrick, Jeffrey

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“…Paris since the 1700s has thus been a gay capital (Merrick and Ragan, 1996;Merrick and Sibalis, 2001). Michel Rey used police archives to investigate Enlightenment sexual attitudes and sub-cultures (Rey, 1985(Rey, , 1987(Rey, , 1989 and Jeffrey Merrick has also explored old regime Paris, homosexual scandals and the policing of homosexuals (Merrick, 1996(Merrick, , 1997(Merrick, , 1999. William Peniston has reconstructed a network of homosexuals around a waiter in the 1870s, and examined homosexuality at the trial of a socialite (Peniston, 1996(Peniston, , 1999.…”

Section: Modern Gay Centres In Urban Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview

Aldrich

2004

Urban Studies

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Ever since the time of ancient Athens and the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, homosexuality has been associated with the city. Historians over the past decade have chronicled urban gay and lesbian groups in Renaissance Italy, Enlightenment France and Britain, and modern America and Australia, and social scientists have also identified emerging gay communities in Asia. Their researches show how homosexuals formed urban networks of sociability and solidarity, and how the presence of such minority communities impacted on urban development from Castro Street to Soho. Homosexuals often moved to cities to escape the sexual and social constraints of traditional life, and they played a major role in transforming the city and in creating a particular urban ethos. The city, in turn, is the site for the construction of much contemporary gay and lesbian culture.

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Section: Modern Gay Centres In Urban Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview

Aldrich

2004

Urban Studies

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“…In previous decades, the Paris police had tried to control this 'social problem' by recruiting undercover agents to arrest cruising men in public places such as the Luxembourg and Tuileries Gardens. 62 Once sodomites' crimes were no longer considered a capital offence, they were henceforth simply imprisoned to prevent them from corrupting young males. 63 Consequently, 'only' seven Parisians were burned at the stake for sodomy in the eighteenth century.…”

Section: Dutch Subcultures Abroad?mentioning

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‘Those rascals chased from Holland!’ Sodomy, migration and identity building in eighteenth-century Antwerp

Roelens

2021

Cultural and Social History

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Convictions for sodomy were rare in eighteenth-century Antwerp. Nevertheless, the scarce trial records offer afascinating insight into the urban perception of sodomy as a foreign phenomenon. A sodomy trial involving several Dutch migrants infused anxieties about sodomite conspiracies across the city. Although early modern sodomy has mainly been studied from alocal or national point of view, this article shows that atransregional perspective regarding the repression of sodomy can shed new light on attitudes towards early modern deviant sexuality.

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“…They were generally imprisoned for some time or banned from the city. 27 This approach was much less visible, but more actively intervened in the lives of those who engaged in sodomy.…”

Section: A Crime With Few Convictsmentioning

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The End of Sodomy: Law, Prosecution Patterns, and the Evanescent Will to Knowledge in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands, 1770–1830

Hofman¹

2019

Journal of Social History

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This article analyses discourses concerning male same-sex sexuality produced in the context of law and policing in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands between 1770 and 1830. Intervening in the debate over the making of “the homosexual” and the change from homosexual “acts” to “identities,” I argue that shifts in sexual discourses were not linear. In the late eighteenth century, the courts and the police displayed a strong “will to knowledge” in same-sex sexual matters, collecting, requesting, and recording discourses on inclination and, in some regions, even innateness. This will to knowledge all but disappeared in the early nineteenth century, when in the aftermath of the official decriminalization of sodomy, same-sex sexual acts became mostly devoid of further meaning in legal and police records. The emergence of sexual discourses was therefore uneven.

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Commissioner Foucault, Inspector Noel, and the "Pederasts" of Paris, 1780-3

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Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview

Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview

‘Those rascals chased from Holland!’ Sodomy, migration and identity building in eighteenth-century Antwerp

The End of Sodomy: Law, Prosecution Patterns, and the Evanescent Will to Knowledge in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands, 1770–1830

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