Kensal Green Cemetery
"I think there is no crime in making what use I please of my own body." --William Brown (on his arrest for sodomy, London, 1726)
Think life is tough for today's homosexual? You haven't seen anything yet. In 18th-Century England, a close-minded, hyper-religious, heterosexuality-obsessed society made life difficult for anyone whose lifestyle didn't fit the norm -- specifically, homosexuals.
Well, take a tour:
Do you think you're empathetic to a homosexual's plight? Are you sure? Then maybe you're ready to Choose Your Own 18th-Century Adventure....
Do you have an insatiable appetite and wanna know more?
This page was made by Julia Shih and Laura Flyer for English 430 (Rise of the Novel), at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1999