Love, Leda

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igshid=16l8o2ndth503&epik=dj0yJnU9Y2lueEpURWREeVZidDVXZGVsVGdhOWd5T0pPQllkYzImcD0wJm49akFJNFFSdnlrMFdaUnRaQzlrVEJjUSZ0PUFBQUFBR0hMUUZz Medlicott, R. W. (1 March 1970). "Leda and the Swan—An Analysis of the Theme in Myth and Art". Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Sage Journals. 4 (1): 15–23. doi: 10.3109/00048677009159303. PMID 4107336. S2CID 25346766. Your support changes lives. Find out how you can help us help more people by signing up for a subscription

HISTORY OF SPEED: Be at the world premiere screening of new documentary Rapid Motion Through Space, at the Royal Institution. The feature-length film focuses on the many incarnations of speed and how it affects us all on land, sea, sky, space and even in our thoughts. The event includes a panel discussion with a group of experts, including director Trent Burton. 7pm-9.30pm The Buggery Act was thorough but non-discriminatory in its application, threatening capital punishment for all non-procreative sex, be it with man, woman ‘or Beast’. One of the first same-sex violations of the act was a Nicholas Udall in 1541, headmaster of Eton, charged with offences against his pupils (he escaped the noose and wound up headmaster of Westminster). It was during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that multiple records for homosexual offences were recorded, and the word ‘molly’ entered slang parlance as both a Moll Flanders-esque prostitute and a nascent gay identity: a typically effeminate, homosexual male. The 2021 wordless, 3D feature film Leda transports the myth to dark forests and deep lakes that surround a mid-19th century mansion. [37] Directed by Samuel Tressler IV and starring Adeline Thery, the story focuses on a pregnant Leda, nightmarishly haunted by the image of a swan and lost between dream and reality in a state of trauma. Love Leda is a transgressive, wriggling slice of queer, working class life in 1960s London. Hyatt is an important literary parent to everyone writing queer London, dreaming of lives free of drudgery and asking what the point of living is.’ – Yara Rodrigues Fowler, author of there are more things

Surely if one's self can love Christ for what He was and what He did, then one's self should be able to love modern man. But people call it something different these days. The dead man becomes religion; the living becomes homosexuality. Either I am in the middle, neither one thing or the other, or I am a madman looking at life upside down. p. 111 Swan Upon Leda' Review: For Hozier, Oppression and Resistance are Mythical and Mundane". www.thecrimson.com . Retrieved 2023-03-23. Part of what contributes to Leda’s aimlessness is his working-class status. In a prescient anticipation of today’s ‘precariat’, Hyatt portrays a twenty-year-old man drifting from Labour Exchange to short-term job stints. The work is monotonous, whether cutting sheets or washing dishes, and his male colleagues don’t appreciate his queered readings of the New Testament where Judas fell in love with Jesus. Hyatt allows us to see a complexly drawn character who’s at a loss because he doesn’t know how to exist; a perennial preoccupation for Leda in the text. He holds a healthy contempt for most other homosexual men (‘I’ve no sympathy for their way of life’), what we’d describe today as internalised homophobia, and instead has to formulate his own philosophy of survival: Come along. It might be something new for you. I don’t know.’ We make our way into the heart of Soho, into a dead looking alley. A door stands ajar and we push it open. I follow him up two flights of stairs. On the landing he stops.

Leda and the Swan" is a sonnet by William Butler Yeats composed in 1923 and first published in the Dial in June, 1924, and later published in the collection 'The Cat the Moon and Certain Poems' in 1924. Combining psychological realism with a mystic vision, it describes the swan's rape of Leda. It also alludes to the Trojan war, which will be provoked by the abduction of Helen, who will be begotten by Zeus on Leda (along with Castor and Pollux, in some versions of the myth). Clytaemnestra, who killed her husband, Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks at Troy, was also supposed to have hatched from one of Leda's eggs. The poem is regularly praised as one of Yeats's masterpieces. [29] Camille Paglia, who called the poem "the greatest poem of the twentieth century," and said "all human beings, like Leda, are caught up moment by moment in the 'white rush' of experience. For Yeats, the only salvation is the shapeliness and stillness of art." [30] See external links for a bas relief arranged in the position as described by Yeats.The inevitable corollaries for Symonds’ marriage are not skirted over. John’s struggle within the bars of strict heteronormative society are humanely portrayed (‘I have been disnatured. It is as simple and terrible as that. No man should live his own life in opposition to his nature’), but Crewe reserves a nuanced sympathy for his wife, Catherine. She is prepared to offer John license within the marriage – he moves in his younger, working-class lover Frank to the family hearth as an ‘amanuensis’ – but she will not play the bastion against his will for public disrepute: ‘You wish to take greater and greater risks. That is your business. You may do it on your own.’ In sketching the poignant breakdown of the couple’s vows, Crewe not only heightens the emotional stakes, but also outlines the debilitating personal effects of an unquestioned cultural damnation. Avant-garde filmmaker Kurt Kren along with other members of the Viennese Actionist movement, including Otto Muehl and Hermann Nitsch, made a film-performance called 7/64 Leda und der Schwan in 1964. The film retains the classical motif, portraying, for most of its duration, a young woman embracing a swan. [ citation needed] Leda and the Swan, a 16th-century copy after a lost painting by Michelangelo ( National Gallery, London) Roman oil lamp, 1st century AD