The Literature and History of Friendship, Romantic
Friendship, Romance, and Sexuality ¶ By Dusk Peterson
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Literature and History
Booktrailer Links. A Web directory
devoted to booktrailers, short films that promote books. Romance novels
are particularly likely to be advertised through book videos.
Buried Treasure: Recommendations of
Online Male Homoerotic Stories and Male Friendship Stories.
Gay and Lesbian Books in Alternative
Formats. Lists sites with GLBT books in audio format, large print,
electronic text, and braille.
GLBT Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature:
A Web Directory.
Homoerotic Historical Fiction Links.
Homosexuality in
Victorian and Edwardian Times. A bibliography of printed and online
resources. Part of a larger bibliography, "Masculinity, Crime, and Everyday
Life in Victorian and Edwardian Times."
Links on the History of Friendship, Romantic
Friendship, Romance, and Sexuality.
Male Romantic Friendships in Historical Photography
and Literature. See also Essays, below.
Private Parlor: Online Male Homoerotic
Fiction Recommendations by Guest Reviewers.
Sites on the History and Literature
of Western Hierarchical Relationships. Focusses on relationships
between people of different status or rank. Relationships based on platonic
feelings and relationships based on sexual attraction are both discussed
at this site.
The Slash Skinny: Publishing News and
Market Report on Original Slash. Information on a genre of professionally
published literature and art featuring male/male and female/female attraction.
Topman: Online Writings by and about
John Preston. Provides a documentary biography of a noted gay author
from New England, and collects links to online writings by and about him.
True Tales: An Erotic E-zine of Masculinity
and Power. Fiction, nonfiction, and links. (Off-site link.)
What is Homoerotic Fiction?
A brief essay.
What is Original Gen, Original
Het, and Original Slash? A brief essay.
Faith Beliefs
Communities
of Faith & Homosexuality. A somewhat dated list of links on
the attitude of world religions toward homosexuality. The list is housed
at Bridges Across the Divide, which is maintained by another Webmaster.
That site "provides models and resources for building respectful relationships
among those who disagree about moral issues surrounding homosexuality,
bisexuality and gender variance." (Off-site link.)
Greenbelt Interfaith News: Gender,
Homosexuality,
and Sexuality. Articles
that deal with the topic of faith beliefs on gender and sexuality.
Related Sites at This Domain
Essays by Dusk Peterson.
Essays are divided by topic. Among the topics listed: Gay History, History
of Friendship and Romantic Friendship, and Leather History.
Fiction by Dusk Peterson. Fantasy and
historical fantasy tales on friendship and romantic desire (mainly male/male)
and contemporary gay leather fiction.
Information on Original Fiction in the
Fan Fiction Communities. Includes information on homoerotic fiction.
Leather Fiction, History, and Magazines.
Sites at this domain that deal with those topics. Includes a number of
sites on leather history and leather literature.
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