Topic: UK: banning books on lesbianism could lead to... lesbianism!
Hephaestion
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posted 03 October 2005 09:57 AM
queerday.com reports:
quote:Government censors in the 1930s feared that banning books about lesbianism would prompt interest in the subject, National Archive records show. They were concerned that suppressing certain books could lead to women "getting to know" about such practices.
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Américain Égalitaire
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posted 03 October 2005 10:40 AM
Heph, that reminds of the Queen Victoria story I read about in one of the Book of Lists. The one where she was presented with a bill (1885) that would make homosexuality illegal in the British Empire. Upon reading it the Queen was so shocked and horrified to learn that women could love women as well that she struck out all references in the bill to lesbianism and signed it making male acts illegal but lesbianism still legal in Britain.
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Hephaestion
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posted 03 October 2005 02:01 PM
I'm not sure, but I think I've read that Queen Victoria story debunked at some point in the past, AE.
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