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- Title
Skev sexualitet runt sekelskiftet 1900.
- Authors
OHLSSON, HÉLÈNE
- Abstract
This article is an investigation of the process when the actor Gustaf Fredrikson (1832–1921), popularly called Frippe, became homosexual. In the 1880s he was first outed informally, in letters, and a decade later in public through drawings and texts in satirical magazines. In this article, the contrary notions of manly and unmanly are used in combination with the Swedish concept skev (“skewed”) as theoretical tools. The article examines the transition period when having a skewed sexuality started to define a man’s identity. Before this period a man with a skewed sexuality was considered unmanly, afterwards he was defined as a feminine homosexual. I argue that a universally accepted template for homosexual men, which was also homophobic, was established in Sweden in the 1880s and first half of the 1890s. The purpose of the article is twofold: to produce new knowledge about the shift in discourse around homosexuality in Sweden in the late nineteenth century, and to generate new knowledge about Gustaf Fredrikson and his role as a pioneer in a growing homosexual subculture in Stockholm at the turn of the last century.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; STOCKHOLM (Sweden); GAY men; HOMOSEXUALITY; NINETEENTH century; SUBCULTURES; DISCOURSE
- Publication
Lambda Nordica, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 4 / 1, p20
- ISSN
1100-2573
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.34041/ln.v26.762