Annotated Male-Male Blue Feather Bibliography 

Non Fiction

Boswell, John.  Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality:  Gay
People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the
Fourteenth Century.  1980.  The University of Chicago Press.  ISBN:
0-226-06711-4.

Boswell is a great, interesting, well documented and researched author.
This book is a good resource for general BF research and it also goes
through the rise of what is modernly referred to as 'homophobia.'  There are
myriad footnotes, and some original texts.  I found it indispensable.
--Esugenas

Boswell, John.  Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe.  1994.  Villard Books.
ISBN:  0-679-43228-0.

Boswell is a great, interesting, well documented and researched author.
This book deals not only with general same-sex relationships, it offers
great material and some original texts for commitment and marriage
ceremonies.  It also tells the story of Saints Serge and Bacchus (in Eastern
Orthodox lands [or Basil and Bacchus in Catholic lands]) who figure
prominently in those ceremonies.  I found this book also indispensable.
--Esugenas

Boughner, Terry.  Out of All Time:  a gay and lesbian history.  1988.
Alyson Publications.  ISBN:  1-55583-104-4.

	This book offers 3 to 5 page biographies of gay and lesbian
historical notables and peoples from Ancient Egypt through to modern times.
It includes such things as information on Sappho, The Papacy, The Arab
World, Edward II, and Caribbean Pirates.  It's a good quick-study book.
--Esugenas

Carpenter, Edward (editor).  Ioläus:  An Anthology of Friendship.  1982
reprint of 1917 original.  Pagan Press.  ISBN:  0-943742-005.

	As with most cXVIII scholarship writings, this should be read with a
scrutinizing eye in so far as the author's conclusions go.  However,
Carpenter takes the reader through the ages and their 'friendships,' which
means that this was probably a scandalous book when he wrote it.  It's
interesting to note that the "Bright Angel" from Amis and Amiloun of
Richert's Early English Romances of Friendship, is specifically named as
[St] Raphael [the Arch Angel] in this book's Amis and Amile.  I found it a
very worthwhile book.  --Esugenas

Grahn, Judy.  Another Mother Tongue:  Gay Words, Gay Worlds.  1984.  Beacon
Press.  ISBN:  0-8070-6717-2.

	Fantastic!  Some of the documentation is scanty, a lot is through
oral history, though.  This book also speaks to the modern issue of
homophobia (as does Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and
Homosexuality), and gives a general outline of gay and lesbian history.
However, it offers wonderful, toe-wriggling etymological information (eg:
Bull Dyke < Boudica), and because of that, I found it to be indispensable.
--Esugenas

Rickert, Edith.  Early English Romances of Friendship.  1967.  Cooper Square
Publishers, Inc.  Part of "The Medieval Library" series.  No ISBN.

	This book relates six tales of 'friendship' romance:  Amis and
Amiloun (French), Sir Amadas (English, perhaps originally French), Athelston
(English, cXIV, perhaps based on an earlier version), The Tale of Gamelyn
(probably English), Roswall and Lillian (?), and The Story of Gray-Steel
(probably set on border between Scotland and England).  It's hard for me to
date these, but they're all very neat stories.  A good book of medieval and
early renaissance stories.  --Esugenas

Roscoe, Will (editor).  Living the Spirit:  A Gay American Indian Anthology.
1988.  St. Martin's Press.  ISBN:  0-312-01899-1.

	Berdeches (French) were male Native Americans who were looked upon
as women or as walkers-between-the-worlds (ie: neither male nor female) in
many Native American Cultures.  In some tribes, they were looked upon as
'real' women, in others, as persons holding a divine office, in still
others, as anathema.  This book deals with these people, their roles and
what they did as productive members of the tribe. The first half is good for
historic information, while the second half (dealing with modern times)
offers further insight into berdeches and their lives.  --Esugenas



Fiction (Historical Novels)

Harrison, Don.  The Spartan.  1982 (Third Printing 1992).  Alyson
Publications.  ISBN:  0-932870-20-1.  

	Story takes place in Classical Greece.  

Hunt, Chris.  Gaveston.  The Gay Men's Press.  1992.  ISBN:  0-85449-184-8. 

	Story is about (English) King Edward II, c1300s.  

Jeffers, H Paul.  Gods & Lovers.  Knights Press.  1987.  ISBN:
0-915175-18-5. 

	Story happens in turn of era Roman Empire.  

Keegan, Mel.  Fortunes of War.  The Gay Men's Press.  1995.  ISBN:
0-85449-211-9. 

	Story about two men who become pirates/privateers in the late 1500s.

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The current plan is that the bibliography could be expanded to
include stuff in which there are subplots of Blue featherian interest.

If anyone else can create an annotated bibliography of
stuff they have, it would be greatly appreciated. Ladies (as opposed to
Lords and not as opposed gentlemen), my collection (hopefully somewhat
understandably) doesn't really deal with Dark Female-Bluefeatherian issues.
If one of you could create something, that'd be excellent.  



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