Historical perspectives on homosexuality / compiled and edited by Salvatore J. Licata and Robert P. Petersen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The myth of lesbian impunity : capital laws from 1270 to 1791 / Louis Crompton -- A lesbian execution in Germany, 1721 : the trial records / translated by Brigitte Eriksson -- Sodomy and heresy in early modern Switzerland / E. William Monter -- Conceptions of homosexuality and sodomy in Western history / Arthur N. Gilbert -- Ho hum, another work of the devil : buggery and sodomy in early Stuart England / B.R. Burg -- Defining sodomy in seventeenth-century Massachusetts / Robert F. Oaks -- "Writhing bedfellows" : 1826 : two young men from antebellum South Carolina's ruling elite share "extravagant delight" / Martin Bauml Duberman -- The "third sex" theory of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs / Hubert C. Kennedy -- Inverts, perverts, and Mary-Annes : male prostitution and the regulation of homosexuality in England in the early twentieth centuries / Jeffrey Weeks.

"Stigmata of degeneration" : prisoner markings in Nazi concentration camps / Erwin H. Haeberle -- The pink triangle : the persecution of homosexual males in concentration camps in Nazi Germany / Rüdiger Lautmann -- The homosexual rights movement in the United States : a traditionally overlooked area of American history / Salvatore J. Licata -- Homosexuality in history : an annotated bibliography / William Parker.