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An exploration into the history of gay sexuality in 19th-century Paris, this title draws on a wealth of sources and information to reconstruct the attitudes towards, and activities in, same sex relationships. The text demonstrates how the working class fitted into this social construct rather than focusing solely on the elites in society.

Eight gay men wrote their autobiographies in French between 1845 and 1905; some of them reflected on their childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, others provided brief impressions of their loves and desires. A few of them dramatized their lives following contemporary theatrical and fictional models, while others wrote for medical doctors, who used the men's writings as case studies to illustrate their theories on sexual deviance. In some instances the doctors' extensive interpretations cannot be separated from the men's own stories, but in others the authors speak for themselves. The...

Peniston, manager of the library and archives at the Newark Museum in New Jersey, examines attempts to suppress sexual deviants during the 1870s in the aftermath of the Paris Commune. First he looks at the forces of authority, including the laws, the police, the magistrates, and the doctors. Then he explores such aspects of the subculture as its co