http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/03/1916-sir-roger-casement/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:20:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/03/1916-sir-roger-casement/#comment-1334 Queer History: Sir Roger Casement is hanged | PrideDEPOT.com Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:04:59 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=346#comment-1334 [...] The gay rights movement has seen a posthumous redefinition of Casement; although homosexuality was not on the indictment against him, one could argue that it was the reason he hanged. Given recent handwriting forensics that support the diaries’ authenticity, the general‡ consensus about the Black Diaries has inverted with the effect of only heightening sympathy for their alleged author, albeit at the expense of some tension over how to situate that characteristic within the whole of Casement’s life and thought. – Source: ExecutedToday.com [...] [...] The gay rights movement has seen a posthumous redefinition of Casement; although homosexuality was not on the indictment against him, one could argue that it was the reason he hanged. Given recent handwriting forensics that support the diaries’ authenticity, the general‡ consensus about the Black Diaries has inverted with the effect of only heightening sympathy for their alleged author, albeit at the expense of some tension over how to situate that characteristic within the whole of Casement’s life and thought. – Source: ExecutedToday.com [...]

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