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If I am generalizing about the renaissance it is because
this is not the forum to cite too many non-Shakespearean
specifics. It's not just that they had different slang,
its that there is no evidence that anybody thought of
sexual taste as a way to define themselves. Even Gaveston
- Edward II's Ganymede - got married. So we put sexual orientation
into certain categories - homo, hetero, and bi - which we
have felt the need to define and demarcate. But folks in
different periods had no such demarcations.
Posted by Cloten on April 10, 1997 at 17:52:07
In Reply to "All of this, of course..." posted by Bruce Spielbauer on April 10, 1997 at 17:44:48
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