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31 Cards in this Set
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Sodomy
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Male/male sex (most common definition)
- different meanings according to time and place |
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"First Church Sodom"
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Halifax
1971 Methodist Philip Barington - opens church with "unbecoming behaviour" |
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Francis Collins
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1831
First Catholic journalist talked about brothels in Toronto |
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Sodom, ON
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1837 - beginning of the end of Upper Cnada rebellion
small logging town |
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1899 Sunday Schools
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Sodom and Gemorrah
- God will send down fire because of their sin |
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1903 Sodom of the Arctic
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Drunkenness
Gambling Loose women |
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1920s Sodomy
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"Weird booze parties" reminiscent of sodomy
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1930s - What city is the "Sodom and Gomorrah" of Alberta
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Edmonton
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Montreal Military Drummer
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1648
"Crime of the worst kind" documents are reluctant to call it sodomy "first recorded case of homosexuality in New France" |
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1841 Canada laws against sodomy
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punishment is death
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Union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada (year)
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1841
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1869 Sodomy laws in Canada
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prison for life
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Early Sodomy
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religious sin
THEN entered legal realm did not pertain to same-sex activity |
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Sodomy between _________ (who?)
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anal or oral sex between
- men & men - men & women - humans & animals |
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Goals of North American in colonial period (why they didn't want sodomy)
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wanted to populate
- made illegal the acts against population growth - "unproductive spilling of seed" |
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Alexander Wood
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- 1810
- militia officer, businessman, justice of peace - Toronto - as judge, looking into evidence of rape case, asked people working on case to come into his chambers and drop pants, rumour gets out - Called a "Molly" |
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Alexander Wood monument
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- 2005
- Church street (gay neighbourhood) in Toronto |
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CTV false claims to Alexander Wood
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- statue for Canada's leading gay public servant
- Wood was first open homosexual public figure |
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"Molly"
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man who desires other men
effeminacy identity defined by gender |
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Could women be accused of being a sodomite?
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NO
- not criminalized in same way - had to be proven that men "spent their seed" - women COULD be a guilty party but NOT charged |
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"Prince" and John Smith
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Halifax
1777 Black man ("Prince") and John Smith - caught in compromising posiiton - brought to trial' Prince - guilty, Smith - not - RACIAL HIERARCHY - nothing to do with sexual identity? |
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George Markland
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1838
Inspector general of public accounts - got young men out of military for sexual acts - case of Markland and the drummer - primary concern was CLASS distinctions |
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Ways of punishment for Sodomy
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Gossip
- regulate sexual behaviour Banishment Charivari |
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Banishment & Sodomy
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Michelle - shipped to France
Wood - returned to Scotland Markland - banishmed to Kingston |
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Charivari
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People come to your house, bring pots and pans, rifles and make a lot of noise around your house
- way for community to single you out |
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Legal Regulation
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main way sexuality is regulated
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"Sex and the 18th Century Man"
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Book by Thomas A. Foster
- argues that sex was an important element in masculine identity during colonial period |
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Pierre Boudin
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1752
"Sodomite of the country" |
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Political importance of sodomy
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- effective category tool for the play of power because it means so many different things
- becomes something outside the self - evidence of sodomy in historical play of power |
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Sodomy in the US today
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2003 - Lawrence vs Texas case
- demonstrate historically sodomy had NOT singled out homosexuals 12 states still have sodomy laws |
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Sodomy in India today
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reinstated 377 (sodomy law) in 2013
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