Not to mention hot lesbian action: Lister uses “kiss” to mean a great deal more than kissing. But here people get stomach upsets and venereal diseases. Her courtships of women are all the more fascinating when you reflect that they’re from Jane Austen’s time. Lister is a wonderful character, pleased to be thought “gentlemanly” but insulted when someone calls her a mere “fellow”. The diaries of Anne Lister (1791-1841)Ī great treasure of lesbian social history. That’s why my new book Homintern is subtitled How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World.ġ. Such works open our eyes to fresh possibilities. In books like these, you hope not only to see how people once lived out their same-sex desires and relationships, but to learn from them how we might live differently, today, to our own advantage.
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