Talk:LGBT literature
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I'm very confused - this is not a list of works of literature, but for the most part authors. The description does not match the content. And since there is no attempt to justify the inclusion of these authors some of them may well lead to edit wars. (E.g. are you suggsting Augustine was LGBT or that he had characters that were and if so which ones - and where? --Doc Glasgow 15:47, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
- Thank you for your concerns. In its present form, this article is simply a very rough outline of gay literature. This article is intended to cover (or at least introduce) the wide ranging topic of LGBT lit. While it contains few works at the moment that will change. I have substituted the names of various authors in place of listing works, especially being that many individual works may not have separate articles. I realize that this list might cause problems for some, but as with this topic in other areas I imagine it will always be a source of some contention.
- As for St. Augustine, one of those whom I imagine will be problematic, some scholars believe that he may have had relationships with other men in his young adulthood. Of course he later condemned homosexuality which also would make him important on this list. Here is a link to a source discussing Augustine's possible male/male relationships [1]. Ganymead 20:54, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
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- I'm not sure this title is appropriate at all unless the article is going to be confined to modern literature, which clearly it isn't. Exploding Boy 15:27, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
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- What would you suggest we call it? Ganymead 17:15, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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I moved the following section here because these works and authors do not, without some explanation, work as LGBT literature. The authors are not LGBT people, the works do not discuss LGBT issues, and so on. I'm not saying they shouldn't be returned to the article, but that an explanation is absolutely needed, something along the lines of "though the term LGBT, and the group that it identifies, is historically specific, and there is considerable debate as to whether a contemporary gay/lebian/trans/etc. identity can be equated to past identities... many works have been evaluated by contemporary LGBT people in light of modern LGBT identities" or whatever. I would write it myself, but I do not think I am familiar enough with contemporary lesbian/gay/trans literary criticism.
==Ancient Mesopotamia== *The Legend of [[Gilgamesh]] and [[Enkidu]]. ==Ancient Greece== *[[Plato|Plato's]] [[The Symposium]] - a discussion of the meaning of love. *[[Sappho]] ==Ancient Rome== *[[Catullus]] *[[Horace]] ==Middle Ages== *[[St. Augustine]] *[[Aelred of Rievaulx]] ==Renaissance== *[[Shakespeare]] *[[Christopher Marlowe]] ==Enlightenment== ==Romanticism== *[[Lord Byron]]
-Seth Mahoney 21:18, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Listify?
Should we just accept that no one is going to add any content to this article and rename it List of LGBT literature or something similar? -Seth Mahoney 03:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ganymede
Can anyone here help with the Ganymede discussion at Talk:As You Like It? AndyJones 15:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Contribution
I added Mary Renault to the list, because I believe that The Friendly Young Ladies, The Last of the Wine, and the Alexander trilogy are significant contributions to LGBT literature. Don't you? Firebreeze 23:08, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
