A utopia filled with Uranians would have less sex and more art.
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Robertson rightly calls this theorizing "courageous and peculiar" and then comes down hard on Carpenter for having constructed a sexual hierarchy in which masculine Uranians were elevated over effeminate ones.
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The utopian feminists are also eugenicists and anti-Semites; the men who dream of a perfect world where same-sex attraction is privileged also unconsciously mimic the hierarchy of patriarchy, putting effeminate or cross-dressing "Uranians" at the bottom of their ladder.
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Oddly, his emphasis throughout—influenced, it seems, by ascetic Eastern religious ideas to which he was exposed—was on the idea that Uranians were less sensual than "mulierasts," or straight men, and that their lack of erotic appetite made them historically responsible for the advance of civilization.
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The Uranian quest to revive the Greek notion of paiderastia was not successful. There are only two book-length studies of the Uranians: Love In Earnest by Timothy d'Arch Smith (1970)[WorldCat.org] and Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006; available as an open-access E-text).Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde Kaylor expands the Uranian canon by situating several major Victorians within the group.
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Penn State Press, 2000. He printed the works of other Uranians, including John Leslie Barford. Bruce Robinson has acknowledged Rondeaux of Boyhood as source material for the dialogue of Uncle Monty in Withnail and I.
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The Uranians were a small and clandestine group of male homosexual poets who published works between 1858, when William Johnson Cory published Ionica, and 1930. Although most of them were English, they had counterparts in the United States and France.
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Schleiz: C. Hübscher,. Major sexologists in the 19th century picked up the idea that a homosexual was "a female soul in a male body, a condition deriving from an error in embryonic differentiation." Those homosexuals who felt themselves to be female were categorized, "in the interest of scientific precision," as "Urnings" (English uranians).
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Subsequent to the Thor storyline, the Eternals (and the mythology connected to them) have appeared or been mentioned in numerous Marvel comics. In particular, the Celestials' experiment on humanity has been used to explain how certain humans can develop super-powers. The Titanians (created by Jim Starlin) and Uranians (created by Stan Lee)Marvel Boy #1 (Dec. 1950) were later retconned as being Eternals as well.
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Michael Matthew Kaylor, "Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde", Michael Matthew Kaylor, 2006, , p. 81Jeffrey Merrick, Bryant T. Ragan, "Homosexuality in modern France", Studies in the history of sexuality, Oxford University Press US, 1996, , p. 134 After his prosecutions he no longer exhibited, but achieved a degree of celebrity amongst those who shared his sensibilities: Oscar Wilde, John Addington Symonds, Count Eric Stenbock, and Walter Pater all collected his works.
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During the early 20th century, a human scientist made contact with the Uranian Eternals and was taken to live with them along with his young son, who would later become Marvel Boy.Marvel Boy #1 (Dec. 1950) The Uranians were eventually killed by Deathurge.Quasar #2 (November 1989) After World War II, some Eternals allied with humans and Deviants to form the Damocles Foundation, which tried to create a new breed of superhuman to rule Earth.
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What If? #28 Their civilization there eventually destroyed itself through civil war, but the sole survivor, Sui-San, together with A'lars, an Eternal from Earth, became the parents of the Eternals of Titan. The peaceful Eternals back on Uranus were the ancestors of the Uranians, who flourished on Uranus until the mid-20th Century when they were wiped out by natural disasters.Fantastic Four #165 They have also been portrayed as having been killed, at their own request, by Deathurge.
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He also used a rocket ship designed by his father, Horace Grayson, based on designs by Uranian technicians. The Uranians gave Marvel Boy a headband which became his primary weapon. This headband consists of highly sophisticated technologies that not only allow him to control his spaceship remotely, but also affords him a high degree of telepathic ability. He can read minds, project highly convincing images and commands into the brains of others, and can scan the physiological state of those around him.
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States of Belonging: German-American Intellectuals and the First World War, Harvard University Press. He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1906. The next year his collection Nineveh and Other Poems (1907) won Viereck national fame. A number were written in the style of the Uranian male love poetry of the time.Mader, D. H. (2005). "The Greek Mirror: Uranians and their use of Greece", in Verstraete and Provencal, (ed.) Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco- Roman Antiquity, Psychology Press, p. 384.
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Kaylor, Michael Matthew, Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians - Hopkins, Pater and Wilde, Masaryk University, Brno: 2006, p82 Note 1 In 1884 he was admitted to the workhouse where he continued to produce work, but his life and talent were blighted by alcoholism. Twenty years later in 1905, he died from complications brought on by his alcoholism. He was buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Willesden. Examples of his work are on permanent display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Wightwick Manor in Wolverhampton, and at Leighton House in west London.
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Hopkins never saw Dolben again after the latter's short visit to Oxford during which they met, and any continuation of their relationship was abruptly ended by Dolben's drowning two years later in June 1867. Hopkins's feeling for Dolben seems to have cooled by that time, but he was nonetheless greatly affected by his death. "Ironically, fate may have bestowed more through Dolben's death than it could ever have bestowed through longer life ... [for] many of Hopkins's best poems – impregnated with an elegiac longing for Dolben, his lost beloved and his muse – were the result."Michael M. Kaylor, Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde.
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It is thus surprising that, beginning mid 19th century, the Urningsball or Tuntenball came to be, balls of uranians, or queens, tolerated, but watched by the police. By the 1900s, these balls had achieved such a fame in Germany, that people from all around the country, and even foreign tourists, would travel to Berlin to participate. These balls were celebrated in large ballrooms, as the Deutscher Kaiser, in the Lothringer Straße, or the Filarmonía, in the Bernburgstraße, the Dresdner Kasino, in the Dresdner Straße, or the Orpheum, in the Alter Jakobstraße 32. For example, the Berliner Morgenpost described extensively on October 17, 1899, a gay ball that had taken place in the hotel König von Portugal, where balls were still being celebrated in 1918.
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Michael Matthew Kaylor, Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde (Brno, CZ: Masaryk University Press, 2006) German lesbian activist Anna Rüling used the term in a 1904 speech, "What Interest Does the Women's Movement Have in Solving the Homosexual Problem?" According to some scholars, the West is trying to reinterpret and redefine ancient third-gender identities to fit the Western concept of sexual orientation. In Redefining Fa'afafine: Western Discourses and the Construction of Transgenderism in Samoa, Johanna Schmidt argues that the Western attempts to reinterpret fa'afafine, the third gender in Samoan culture, make it have more to do with sexual orientation than gender. She also argues that this is actually changing the nature of fa'afafine itself, and making it more "homosexual".
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The Uranians are a fictional race appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They first appeared in Marvel Boy # 1 (1950), written by Stan Lee, as the human-like inhabitants of the planet Uranus, who became the hosts and mentors of Marvel Boy (Robert Grayson), as well as providing him with the technology which he used on Earth to become a superhero. Originally described as a utopian society of extraterrestrials native to Uranus who had found scientific cures for aging, disease, crime, and other ills, they were laterThor Annual #7 (1978) and Thor #291-301 (May 1979 - November 1980) retconned as a colony of the Eternals, an offshoot of humanity which possessed near-immortality, super-powers and vastly advanced technology even before founding their colony. The backstory of Uranos, and other Uranian Eternals (such as Sui-San, mother of Thanos) was featured in Captain Marvel vol.
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Carpenter remarked in his work The Intermediate Sex: > Eros is a great leveller. Perhaps the true Democracy rests, more firmly than > anywhere else, on a sentiment which easily passes the bounds of class and > caste, and unites in the closest affection the most estranged ranks of > society. It is noticeable how often Uranians of good position and breeding > are drawn to rougher types, as of manual workers, and frequently very > permanent alliances grow up in this way, which although not publicly > acknowledged have a decided influence on social institutions, customs and > political tendencies.Edward Carpenter The Intermediate Sex, p.114-115 Edward Carpenter (1894) by Roger Fry (1866-1934), oil on canvas; given by the artist, 1930 Carpenter included among his friends the scholar, author, naturalist, and founder of the Humanitarian League, Henry S. Salt, and his wife, Catherine; the critic, essayist and sexologist, Havelock Ellis, and his wife, Edith; actor and producer Ben Iden Payne; Labour activists Bruce and Katharine Glasier; writer and scholar, John Addington Symonds; and the writer and feminist, Olive Schreiner.
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