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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Prose
A collection of prose pieces by others exploring the love that has always dared to speak its name.
See here for the Great Mirror's companion collection of poetry
Copyright © 2021 AC Benus; All Rights Reserved.- Signature Author
- 08/04/2021 (Updated: 02/04/2023)
- 81 Chapters
- 193,874 Words
- 45,434 Views
- 243 Comments
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The Mirror to You and Me
- 420 Words
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Sholem Asch's "The God of Vengeance"
- 2,787 Words
- 1,123 Views
- 4 Comments
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Boyd McDonald "Unnatural Act"
- 72 Words
- 964 Views
- 2 Comments
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J. D. McClatchy "Eros, the limb-loosener..."
- 1,454 Words
- 451 Views
- 3 Comments
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Unknown - "A Gay Bar's House Rules"
- 469 Words
- 389 Views
- 2 Comments
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Winifred Holtby "Normal"
- 104 Words
- 666 Views
- 2 Comments
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Unknown "Another Hope and Glory"
- 2,857 Words
- 844 Views
- 2 Comments
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Katherine Mansfield "Leves Amores"
- 583 Words
- 829 Views
- 2 Comments
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Emily Dickinson “Those unions will take us one day”
- 1,016 Words
- 315 Views
- 2 Comments
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Gerald Basil Edwards "The Book of Ebenezer Le Page"
- 1,351 Words
- 971 Views
- 3 Comments
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Straight sexual activity equals “relationship of strangeness and distance”
- 548 Words
- 304 Views
- 0 Comments
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Ahmad al-Tifashi – “The Most ‘Charming’ of Slave Boys”
- 4,121 Words
- 851 Views
- 2 Comments
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Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship"
- 5,951 Words
- 384 Views
- 4 Comments
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Wayne Studer "Lavender Country"
- 781 Words
- 776 Views
- 3 Comments
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Unknown "One of the men Hemingway loved"
- 218 Words
- 858 Views
- 1 Comments
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Oscar Wilde "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."
- 11,538 Words
- 837 Views
- 4 Comments
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George Sand to Daniel Stern
- 392 Words
- 720 Views
- 2 Comments
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Martin Greif "Babe slugged anyone tittering at Howard’s petit-point"
- 1,511 Words
- 317 Views
- 5 Comments
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Isabella Maria Ludovica "the privilege of possessing you"
- 355 Words
- 735 Views
- 0 Comments
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Alexander Hamilton “Love à la française”
- 797 Words
- 343 Views
- 4 Comments
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Margaret Mead’s Definition of “Perversion”
- 109 Words
- 749 Views
- 1 Comments
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Sam Steward "Doing and Done"
- 4,385 Words
- 736 Views
- 5 Comments
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Leo Tolstoy “I never loved women”
- 530 Words
- 348 Views
- 4 Comments
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Leo Tolstoy "The Ivins"
- 2,574 Words
- 579 Views
- 2 Comments
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O. Henry ”A man? … No, doctor; there is nothing of the kind”
- 2,430 Words
- 687 Views
- 3 Comments
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John Boswell "Review of the novel Ephesiaca"
- 1,066 Words
- 781 Views
- 2 Comments
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Dolly Wilde encounters Virginia Woolf
- 535 Words
- 757 Views
- 4 Comments
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Doctor Evelyn Hooker “…an enormous difference…”
- 3,980 Words
- 712 Views
- 5 Comments
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Leonard to Lytton “But who will marry Virginia?”
- 1,069 Words
- 295 Views
- 4 Comments
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David Leavitt "Gravity"
- 1,685 Words
- 755 Views
- 2 Comments
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Carl Morse “A touchdown pass never reached its tight end”
- 584 Words
- 671 Views
- 2 Comments
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Oliver Goldsmith "on how friends should love"
- 536 Words
- 711 Views
- 2 Comments
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Robert Fish “Keith asked a number of questions”
- 1,822 Words
- 602 Views
- 4 Comments
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Oliver Goldsmith "Love and Friendship, or the story of Alcander and Septimius"
- 1,340 Words
- 511 Views
- 2 Comments
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D. H. Lawrence “His love was more perfect than any love I have known”
- 3,122 Words
- 706 Views
- 2 Comments
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Augustine “Better than that phantasm of God”
- 749 Words
- 707 Views
- 3 Comments
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Lawrence of Arabia “Sex is an integer in all of all”
- 1,207 Words
- 555 Views
- 2 Comments
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E. M. Forster "Ansell"
- 3,147 Words
- 751 Views
- 2 Comments
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Anne Sexton "There the snow was, beautiful and terrible"
- 346 Words
- 533 Views
- 0 Comments
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Henry David Thoreau "The Pond in Winter"
- 1,790 Words
- 549 Views
- 2 Comments
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Owlfeather “…but I want to be with you” – a Native American point of view
- 2,951 Words
- 707 Views
- 4 Comments
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from an Eyewitness to Wilde’s Second Trial
- 283 Words
- 649 Views
- 4 Comments
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Skanda Purana "Sumedha and Somavan"
- 2,396 Words
- 527 Views
- 2 Comments
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Carter Newman Bealer “Draw the curtains, Malcolm, will you?” “Certainly, Malcolm.”
- 1,158 Words
- 635 Views
- 2 Comments
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Alison Laurie “New Zealand Bobby and the Kamp life of Aotearoa and Australia”
- 3,097 Words
- 572 Views
- 4 Comments
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Alison Laurie Part II “A Kamp Girl’s Activism in Europe”
- 3,581 Words
- 206 Views
- 4 Comments
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Jody Shotwell "The Gateway"
- 3,279 Words
- 514 Views
- 5 Comments
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Tor Hell "Loving Soldiers in Sweden"
- 701 Words
- 280 Views
- 4 Comments
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Edward Carpenter “Afar from feminine society”
- 958 Words
- 259 Views
- 6 Comments
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Edward Carpenter “The unconquerable force of these unions”
- 1,275 Words
- 534 Views
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Gavin Arthur “…his tongue flickered over me like summer lightning…”
- 1,854 Words
- 342 Views
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James Gardiner "A Bit of Scarlet"
- 1,476 Words
- 595 Views
- 6 Comments
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Joseph Orgel and Neil Miller – Two Takes on Edward “Maurie” Forster
- 2,159 Words
- 459 Views
- 3 Comments
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E. M. Forster "The Obelisk"
- 6,104 Words
- 539 Views
- 6 Comments
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Thomas Pynchon "To Love Decently"
- 116 Words
- 326 Views
- 2 Comments
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Jack Saul “Recollections of a Mary-Ann”
- 1,994 Words
- 328 Views
- 6 Comments
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Siobhan Somerville “Double Lives on the Color Line”
- 5,991 Words
- 364 Views
- 4 Comments
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James Baldwin "signal of a bitter time to come”
- 5,029 Words
- 1,045 Views
- 2 Comments
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Bayard Rustin through a kaleidoscope
- 1,645 Words
- 336 Views
- 4 Comments
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Brian Keith “…Dear Dave…”
- 627 Words
- 578 Views
- 5 Comments
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Christopher Robinson “The Muse of Violets”
- 910 Words
- 256 Views
- 4 Comments
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Fredrick Loring “…you and a few others will know what I mean…”
- 18,110 Words
- 565 Views
- 8 Comments
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Barry Goldwater "...you don't need to be straight to shoot straight..."
- 210 Words
- 240 Views
- 2 Comments
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John McElroy "Love in Andersonville Extermination Camp, Part 1"
- 556 Words
- 168 Views
- 2 Comments
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Sarah Prager "A Proper Kickoff for Pride Month"
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Chip Livingston “…I want you back, Elan…” – a Native American point of view
- 1,045 Words
- 122 Views
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Hans Christian Andersen “Do you imagine this is the whole world?”
- 3,793 Words
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Hans Christian Andersen – “How firmly you have grown into my heart”
- 1,453 Words
- 160 Views
- 6 Comments
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Hans Christian Andersen through a kaleidoscope
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- 131 Views
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Noël Coward “Me and the Girls”
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- 199 Views
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Henry van Dyke - on Hallam and Tennyson’s Love
- 202 Words
- 106 Views
- 2 Comments
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Who built a wall of imaginary law around these needs – excerpts from " Joseph"
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AC Benus "...the great adventures that lie ahead..."
- 8,463 Words
- 93 Views
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Henry Stevenson Washburn "...the Potomac held his body in its embrace..."
- 912 Words
- 68 Views
- 1 Comments
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Elisa Rolle “Arthur C. Clarke”
- 2,203 Words
- 317 Views
- 3 Comments
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Gregory Woods "Refuting Lies About Whitman’s Orientation"
- 130 Words
- 48 Views
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James Lane Allen “I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep”
- 6,390 Words
- 69 Views
- 6 Comments
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Axel Nissen “Entirely credible and honestly touching”
- 951 Words
- 59 Views
- 5 Comments
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Bret Harte "Tennessee’s Partner"
- 3,750 Words
- 74 Views
- 4 Comments
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Tom Cook "A Trans Pioneer"
- 952 Words
- 69 Views
- 4 Comments
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Alexander Berkman "The Yegg"
- 2,562 Words
- 53 Views
- 2 Comments
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