![]() ![]() But in a single stroke, not only was love between men illegal, but anything referring to this love became obscene, unprintable, unspeakable. New York Times best-selling author Naomi Wolf’s Outrages is the story, brilliantly told, of why this two-pronged State repression took hold-first in England and spreading quickly to America-and why it was attached so dramatically, for the first time, to homosexual men.īefore 1857 it wasn’t “homosexuality” that was a crime, but simply the act of sodomy. In the same year, the concept of the “obscene” was coined. Until 1857, the State did not link the idea of “homosexuality” to deviancy. ![]() We apologize for the inconvenience, but Naomi Wolf's publisher has cancelled her book tour and delayed the publication of her book. ![]()
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