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Ralph Waldo Emerson lectures in New York City and discusses intimate friendships between men.<ref>Katz, Love Stories, 126.</ref>
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Revision as of 16:20, 26 December 2011

Timeline: 1860 through 1869

1860


1860, March

Walt Whitman is in Boston preparing third edition of Leaves of Grass.


1860, March 17

Ralph Waldo Emerson meets Walt Whitman on Boston Common and warns the New York poet about publishing some of the sexual poems planned for his new edition of Leaves of Grass.[1]


1860, March 19

Fred Vaughn, in New York, writes to Walt Whitman in Boston.[2]


1860, March 23

Ralph Waldo Emerson lectures in New York City and discusses intimate friendships between men.[3]


1860, March 27

Fred Vaughn, in New York, writes to Walt Whitman in Boston.[4]


1860, April 30

Fred Vaughn, in New York, writes to Walt Whitman in Boston.[5]


1860, May

Walt Whitman publishes third edition of Leaves of Grass.[6]


1860, May 7

Fred Vaughn, in New York, writes to Walt Whitman in Boston.[7]


1861


1862


1862, May

Fred Vaughn writes to Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.[8]


1862, May 18 The Richmond [Virginia] Daily Dispatch, in the Confederate capital, reports a large increase in "prostitutes of both sexes".[9]


1863


1863, winter

James J. Archer, a Confederate General, is held prisoner on Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie, Ohio, and is alleged to have participated in a drinking party with "Captain Taylor" in which "they all got drunk together and got to hugging each other and saying that they had slept together many a time."[10]


1864


1864, March 20

John J. Willey, of the First Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, quartered in Brandy Station, Virgina, writes to his wife about an all-male ball in which some of the men dressed as women.[11]


1864, April 3

Oscar Cram of the Eleventh Massachusetts Infantry writes to a correspondent, "Ellen", telling her about an all-male ball that recently occurred.[12]


1865


1865, April 21

William Anderson, a sailor, and Henry Smith, a petty officer on the USS SHamrock, docked in North Carolina, are charged with "holding improper indecent intercourse."[13]


1865, April 23

John C. Smith and Louis Jerut, of the USS Shamrock, docked in North Carolina, are charged with "improper and indecent intercourse with each other."[14]


1865, October 30

Seaman Henry Williams and ordinary seaman William Steward, of the Muscota, docked in Key West, Florida, are charged with an "unnatural crime", unspecified.[15]


1866


1867


1868


1868, May 6

Kertbeny: "Homosexual," "Heterosexual," May 6, 1868


1869


1869, Fall

Kertbeny: "Homosexual," Fall 1869


Next: 1870-1879

Notes

  1. Katz, Love Stories, 126
  2. Katz, Love Stories, 125.
  3. Katz, Love Stories, 126.
  4. Katz, Love Stories, 126.
  5. Katz, Love Stories, 129
  6. http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/waltwhitman.html Library of Congres
  7. Katz, Love Stories, 129.
  8. Katz, Love Stories, 136.
  9. Katz, Love Stories, 134.
  10. Katz, Love Stories, 137.
  11. Katz, Love Stories, 135.
  12. Katz, Love Stories, 136.
  13. Katz, Love Stories, 134.
  14. Katz, Love Stories, 134
  15. Katz, Love Stories, 134.