Walking With the Ghost: Sodomy, Sanity and the Secular in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly by Kyle Joseph Campbell

“…It is the goal of this paper, then, to explore Edgar Huntly as a narrative that weaves the danger of sodomy to sleepwalking, suggesting an implicit relationship between madness, illness, and same-sex desire. …”
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...Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400–1700) ... by Tom Hamilton

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Sean Brady et Mark Seymour (dir.), From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage. International Perspectives since 1789 by Romain Jaouen

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Parallel Universes? Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) and Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1991-1996) by Hélène Tison

“…Bechdel’s syndicated bi-monthly strip is a twenty-five-year running commentary on US politics viewed from a lesbian perspective, that also discusses such feminist and/or LGBTQ+ issues as gender relations, the sodomy laws, trans rights, marriage equality, etc., and that shows her characters evolving on a number of these issues, as many Americans have since the 1980s. …”
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The Homosexual Exception? The Case of the Labouchère Amendment by William Fize

“…Indeed, while before it was passed, only sodomy had been a criminal offence, this amendment extended the scope of the criminal law by making a misdemeanour ‘the commission of or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of any act of gross indecency with another male person’. …”
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Rituales políticos, sexuales y sagrados en la literatura del siglo XIX. El Matadero como espacio de transición y mezcla by Lucía  Caminada Rossetti

“…With this text, the notions of barbarism, unhealthiness and sodomy were articulated. Unhealthiness it was considered in that moment as it was concentrated in slaughterhouses and cemeteries that gathered bodies in decomposition status. …”
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