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Wednesday 22 February 2017 at 13:27
With his enormous hair, painted face, and dainty attire, the so-called "macaroni" was a common sight upon the streets and ridiculing prints of 1770s London. Dominic Janes explores how with this new figure — and the scandalous sodomy trials with which the stereotype became entwined — a widespread discussion of same-sex desire first entered the public realm, long before the days of Oscar Wilde.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/02/22/a-queer-taste-for-macaroni/