Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Effeminate versus Masculine Gay Men | Sir Noel Malcolm: The History of Homosexuality (3/4)

Jan 21, 2025 | Homosexual sexuality was not the same in every European country. In Western Europe, men could grow beards and tried to be stereotypically masculine to appeal to the same sex. In the Mediterranean, they would try to look as feminine as possible: shaving and trying to maintain a slender physique. In this lecture, Sir Noel Malcolm tracks these differences.

Sir Noel Malcolm is a British historian and author, known for his work in early modern history and the relationship between Europe and the Islamic world. He's a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and has written extensively on Thomas Hobbes, among other subjects. Knighted in 2014, he's also a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature



Parts 1 & 2 here.