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Tag Archives: Marriage
1920: Drag
Drag ball in the USSR, 1920’s From a review of Dan Healey’s Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: Famously, the Russian Revolution brought the decriminalization of homosexuality in an act both nearly unique in Europe and astonishingly advanced in a country … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Books, Dan Healey, Joseph Stalin, LGBT, Marriage, Medicine, Psychology, Revolution, Socialism & Communism, Soviet Union
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1737: The One Was Dress’d as a Man
In the early 18th century, “Fleet Marriages” were clandestine and unsanctioned marriages that were conducted in London’s Fleet prison, or in the rough neighborhoods surrounding it. They took place away from the home parishes of the spouses, often without marriage … Continue reading
