I'm looking for Scottish lit from the 18th/early 19thc with queer themes, even subtle ones--aside from "Justified Sinner," and later works like "Jekyll & Hyde," there doesn't seem to be much written. Do folks have suggestions?
@elizabethelliott.bsky.social might have some recs!
My sense is from reading criminal cases is that Edinburgh and Glasgow had few sodomy cases that reached trial. Hume talks about sodomy in his discussions on crime, and is predictably unenlightened about it, but doesn't go into too much detail. The kirk seems to have suppressed a lot.
Not lit, but crit: a search turned up Walter Sholto Douglas, a Scottish writer and trans man.
Who was Walter Sholto Douglas? The Scottish writer and friend of Mary Shelley gained fame as a man but was christened Mary Diana Dods.