Imre: A Memorandum

This 1906 novel, published one year after Freud's first articles on homosexuality, may well be the first gay novel with a happy ending. In style, it might have been written by a well-read author in 1970, but for a few outdated terms like dionistic, Uranianism, similisexual. Prime-Stevenson recognizes the omnipresence of homosexuality throughout all historical periods, social strata, races, ages, and sexes; half-baked psychiatric diagnoses; as well as the horror of the closet, which is more effec