The Creation of Animosity challenges some of the
basic assumptions made about societys attitudes
towards homosexuality in the period through an
analysis of four significant trials -
Boulton and Park in 1870-71, the Cleveland Street
Scandal in 1889, the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895
and of Noel Pemberton-Billing in 1918. It also
investigates some of the less-famous
trials and provides an analysis of all male-male sex
crimes recorded between 1870 & 1920. The nature of
the interaction between the law, the media and
society in the formation of new popular beliefs is
the main focus,...