By Richard Cleminson
Gender studies of Spain has to this point targeted nearly completely on ladies, leaving the social and political heritage of male homosexuality almost untouched. 'Los Invisibles' fills this major hole within the research of Spanish tradition through interpreting the consequences of clinical and felony legislation on male homosexuals. Drawing from the discourse of clinical heritage, Richard Cleminson and Francisco V?zquez Garc?a overview the effect of psychiatry, schooling, race, and the expansion of gay subcultures on cultural representations of homosexuality during this pioneering research.
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Examples include the work of P. M. Peiró and J. Rodrigo (Elementos de Medicina y Cirugía Legal, 1839), Pedro Mata (Vademécum de Medicina y Cirugía Legal, 1844) and that of Mateo Orfila (Tratado de Medicina Legal, 1847). In all these cases the author expressed his moral repugnance at having to deal with the issue of sodomy or pederasty and both terms were used interchangeably. These crimes were considered alongside those Columns Design Ltd / Job: Los_Invisibles / Division: Chap2 /Pg. 9 Orfila, professor of legal medicine in Paris, for his part, established a direct connection between sodomy and sexual relations with minors.
There is a difference of opinion between members of the court. The jury, apparently more acquainted with the psychiatric theories of the time, saw no degree of incompatibility between madness, which affected the will and the instinct of the priest rather than his ability to reason, and criminality. What must have taken place in the space of fifty years to alter dominant conceptualizations of sexual activity between adults and minors? What allowed the category of ‘homosexual perversion’ or simply ‘homosexuality’ to become incorporated into psychiatric knowledge by the early 1900s?
3. An excellent example is the recent monographic issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality on ‘Sexuality and German Fascism’. The richness of articles and perspectives on that period of history in Germany show, amongst other things, how much further advanced sexuality studies are in that country in comparison to Spain. See, in particular, the editor’s essay, D. Herzog, ‘Hubris and Hypocrisy, Incitement and Disavowal: Sexuality and German Fascism’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 11, 1/2 (2002), 3–21.