expressions of homophobia, ones that words do not reveal…
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
—Lv 20:13
Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality; nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
—St Paul , I Cor 6:9–10
Truly, there is no way to compare this vice to any other vice, because it surpasses the scope of all vices. In effect, this vice means the death of the body, and the destruction of the soul. It pollutes the flesh; it extinguishes the light of the spirit, it opens the door to Hell, and closes the gates of Heaven.… This vice can tumble men from the heart of the ecclesiastical community, and forces them to pray alongside the possessed and those who work for the Devil.
—St Peter Damian, Liber Gomorrhianus ( Book of Gomorrah ), c. 1050
He who is a proven sodomite, must lose his balls, and if he does it a second time, he must lose his member; and if he does it a third time, he must be burned”; “The woman who does it must each time lose a member, and the third time must be burned. And all their belongings belong to the king.
— Justice et Plet , ancient customs of Orléans, c. 1260
Who errs against faith, as like heathenism, from which he does not want to come to the voice of truth, or if he commits sodomy, he must be burned.
—Philippe de Beaumanoir, Les Coutumes de Beauvaisis ( The Costumes de Beauvaisis ), c. 1285
In each temple or important place of worship, they have one or two men, if not more, dressed as women since childhood, and who speak like them and imitate their habits, their dress and all. The men—and the chiefs in particular—have immoral carnal relations with them on feast or holy days, as if it were a rite or a ceremony. I know because I punished two of them.
—Pedro Cieza de Léon, Crónica del Peru , 1533
During the time I was among these people [Native Americans in what is now Florida], I saw a diabolical thing: a man married to another man.
—Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, La Relacion o naufragios, 1542
If a man consents to being sodomized, the guilty will be condemned to wearing the cang for a month and to 100 strikes of the stick.
—Code of the Qing Dynasty (Da Qing Mi), 1734
The pederast contravenes to hygiene, to cleanliness and he is ignorant of the lustration that purifies. The state of the backside, the weakness of the sphincter, the funnel-shaped anus or the shape and dimension of the penis show the membership in this new race. Monster in the new gallery of monsters, the pederast is in part linked to the animal; in his coitus, he invokes the dog. His nature associates him to excrement.
—Ambroise Tardieu, Etude médico-légales sur les attentats aux moeurs (Medical-legal studies of assaults against decency), 1857
Without going all the way to death, I regret that this infamy that has begun to propagate itself amongst us, be treated with so much indulgence. I would like it to be, in all cases, associated to rape, and punished by twenty years of reclusion.
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Amour et marriage (Love and marriage), 1858
Homosexuality is a functional stigmatism of degeneracy and a nervous psychopathological defect.
—Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis , 1886
Homosexuality is the negation of human will in one of its weakest points, for human will has in it the living ideal of perpetuation. This simple fact suffices to impose heterosexuality as the standard and to place all perversions, including masturbation, at the level of crime, aberrations or sin.
—Dr Alfred Adler, “Le Problème de l’homosexualité” (published in English as “On Homosexuality,” 1917)
Imagine exactly what sexual practices between men are, and try not to vomit.
—Camille Mauclair, Les Marges , March 1926
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If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
—Lv 20:13
Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality; nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
—St Paul , I Cor 6:9–10
Truly, there is no way to compare this vice to any other vice, because it surpasses the scope of all vices. In effect, this vice means the death of the body, and the destruction of the soul. It pollutes the flesh; it extinguishes the light of the spirit, it opens the door to Hell, and closes the gates of Heaven.… This vice can tumble men from the heart of the ecclesiastical community, and forces them to pray alongside the possessed and those who work for the Devil.
—St Peter Damian, Liber Gomorrhianus ( Book of Gomorrah ), c. 1050
He who is a proven sodomite, must lose his balls, and if he does it a second time, he must lose his member; and if he does it a third time, he must be burned”; “The woman who does it must each time lose a member, and the third time must be burned. And all their belongings belong to the king.
— Justice et Plet , ancient customs of Orléans, c. 1260
Who errs against faith, as like heathenism, from which he does not want to come to the voice of truth, or if he commits sodomy, he must be burned.
—Philippe de Beaumanoir, Les Coutumes de Beauvaisis ( The Costumes de Beauvaisis ), c. 1285
In each temple or important place of worship, they have one or two men, if not more, dressed as women since childhood, and who speak like them and imitate their habits, their dress and all. The men—and the chiefs in particular—have immoral carnal relations with them on feast or holy days, as if it were a rite or a ceremony. I know because I punished two of them.
—Pedro Cieza de Léon, Crónica del Peru , 1533
During the time I was among these people [Native Americans in what is now Florida], I saw a diabolical thing: a man married to another man.
—Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, La Relacion o naufragios, 1542
If a man consents to being sodomized, the guilty will be condemned to wearing the cang for a month and to 100 strikes of the stick.
—Code of the Qing Dynasty (Da Qing Mi), 1734
The pederast contravenes to hygiene, to cleanliness and he is ignorant of the lustration that purifies. The state of the backside, the weakness of the sphincter, the funnel-shaped anus or the shape and dimension of the penis show the membership in this new race. Monster in the new gallery of monsters, the pederast is in part linked to the animal; in his coitus, he invokes the dog. His nature associates him to excrement.
—Ambroise Tardieu, Etude médico-légales sur les attentats aux moeurs (Medical-legal studies of assaults against decency), 1857
Without going all the way to death, I regret that this infamy that has begun to propagate itself amongst us, be treated with so much indulgence. I would like it to be, in all cases, associated to rape, and punished by twenty years of reclusion.
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Amour et marriage (Love and marriage), 1858
Homosexuality is a functional stigmatism of degeneracy and a nervous psychopathological defect.
—Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis , 1886
Homosexuality is the negation of human will in one of its weakest points, for human will has in it the living ideal of perpetuation. This simple fact suffices to impose heterosexuality as the standard and to place all perversions, including masturbation, at the level of crime, aberrations or sin.
—Dr Alfred Adler, “Le Problème de l’homosexualité” (published in English as “On Homosexuality,” 1917)
Imagine exactly what sexual practices between men are, and try not to vomit.
—Camille Mauclair, Les Marges , March 1926
I
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