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Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850 to 1900 (1970) is a book by Brian Reade, published by Coward-McCann.

The book discusses a growing clandestine literature on the topic of male homosexuality in English literature and the growth in a homosexual subculture in England from the 1850s, ending shortly after the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895.[1] The degree to which Reade overstated the visibility of homosexuality in this era has been debated, but a number of gay poets such as Walt Whitman (especially his Calamus poems) and Edward Carpenter began to produce gay-themed works.[2]

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  1. ^ Horne, Peter; Lewis, Reina (9 September 2002). Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures. Routledge. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-134-80308-8.
  2. ^ Lauritsen, John; Thorstad, David (1974). The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864–1935). New York: Times Change Press. p. 32. ISBN 0-87810-027-X.
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