: Yep, SDF, Americans, especially men, are strangely queasy about two members of the same gender expression affection for each other -- except for when hyper-masculine football players pat each other's nicely rounded, padded butts. Methinks something is a bit queer, here.
SDF: It's interesting to note that lesbianism was somewhat tolerated in Victorian England. Note the peculiar lack of controversy about the lesbian relationship of the female protagonist of George Eliot's (1872) novel Daniel Deronda. Male homosexuality in the same culture, well, any Lit major can remember the prison term which Oscar Wilde had to serve...
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