Lgbt History
LGBT History February 13, 2013
Emic Idenitity V. Etic identity
Emic - How you perceive yourself.
Etic - Is the external pressures, how does others see us.
We as humans sort of live between the two.
The British Colonials
The first BC that are coming here are the Roanoke. They quickly disappeared. Probably killed by Indians.
More well know BC was Jamestown VA 1607 (Pocahontas and John Smith)
Plymouth Rock, MA 1620 (Naragnaset)
Non Calvinist colonies - Follow the buggery statues which means no anal sex, He based this on Leviticus. Term Buggery comes from the French term Bougne-Bogomils.
What the Bogomils do? Became the term Buggery.
Sodomy, any non pro-creative sex. Rooted from Sodom and Gomorrah story.
In the Calvinist colonies (New England) Leviticus inspired laws.
Rhode Island was the only state that did not have a death penalty for same sex activity.
Pennsylvania was governed by Quakers and they did not believe in telling me how to interpret the bible. They are also Pacifist. They also have the only laws in the 1600's about tolerance (Review this on Wiki)
Pennsylvania is the only state in the colony which has no laws agains homosexuality.
In 1629 A Reverend Francis Higgenson sailing across the sea reports that five beastly sodomitcal boys were caught on the ship.
In 1642 Mary Kay Elizabeth Johnson
Whipped and fined.
In 1649 Mary Hammon at age 15 had sex with Sarah Norman.
John Knight executed and hung in 1655.
He was put to death because he was sexually abusing a child. Nothing happened to the boys, the matter was dropped, no one knows why they were not punished or reported on.
Why the discrepancy?
The discrepancy...
-It's a sin, but?
-We need the bodies.
-Friends and neighbors.
Nicholas Sension, 1677 - Windsor, Connecticut
Nicholas was convicted on trial for sodomy. He was accused by his servant Nicholas Pond.
He was not charged as they did not have two
Emic Idenitity V. Etic identity
Emic - How you perceive yourself.
Etic - Is the external pressures, how does others see us.
We as humans sort of live between the two.
The British Colonials
The first BC that are coming here are the Roanoke. They quickly disappeared. Probably killed by Indians.
More well know BC was Jamestown VA 1607 (Pocahontas and John Smith)
Plymouth Rock, MA 1620 (Naragnaset)
Non Calvinist colonies - Follow the buggery statues which means no anal sex, He based this on Leviticus. Term Buggery comes from the French term Bougne-Bogomils.
What the Bogomils do? Became the term Buggery.
Sodomy, any non pro-creative sex. Rooted from Sodom and Gomorrah story.
In the Calvinist colonies (New England) Leviticus inspired laws.
Rhode Island was the only state that did not have a death penalty for same sex activity.
Pennsylvania was governed by Quakers and they did not believe in telling me how to interpret the bible. They are also Pacifist. They also have the only laws in the 1600's about tolerance (Review this on Wiki)
Pennsylvania is the only state in the colony which has no laws agains homosexuality.
In 1629 A Reverend Francis Higgenson sailing across the sea reports that five beastly sodomitcal boys were caught on the ship.
In 1642 Mary Kay Elizabeth Johnson
Whipped and fined.
In 1649 Mary Hammon at age 15 had sex with Sarah Norman.
John Knight executed and hung in 1655.
He was put to death because he was sexually abusing a child. Nothing happened to the boys, the matter was dropped, no one knows why they were not punished or reported on.
Why the discrepancy?
The discrepancy...
-It's a sin, but?
-We need the bodies.
-Friends and neighbors.
Nicholas Sension, 1677 - Windsor, Connecticut
Nicholas was convicted on trial for sodomy. He was accused by his servant Nicholas Pond.
He was not charged as they did not have two