History & The Arts
Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
...works of this time called the women’s quarters in Middle Eastern homes – explicitly situated lesbian sexuality as a ‘vice’ of the East. (It is also framed simply as a reaction to male homosexuality: in the absence of virile heterosexual men, women turn to each other, rather than this being a normal sexual desire in its own right.) The Fabulous Story, which is...
