Homogenic Love by Edward Carpenter
The Library owns an inscribed copy of writer and homosexual rights campaigner Edward Carpenter’s 1894 publication Homogenic Love. This is one of the works in which Carpenter argued for the acceptance of same-sex love as an intrinsic feature of human existence and not deviance of some kind.
Teleny and Des Grieux
Teleny (1893) was produced and circulated in a clandestine manner in fin-de-siècle London. It is reputed to be the first homoerotic novel in English, and its authorship remains disputed. It is extremely rare, and of an initial print run of 200 there are only seven remaining copies. Des Grieux (1899) is a prologue or prequel to Teleny, although it was published later.
The Young and Evil
The Young and Evil (1933) by Charles Ford and Parker Tyler A classic of queer modernism that was championed by Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes, this first edition of the controversial gay novel focuses on bohemian life in New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1920s and 1930s. Published in Paris, many copies were seized and destroyed […]
