John Addington Symonds English writer and social theorist John Addington Symonds was BOTD in 1840. Born in Bristol to a prominent middle-class family, he attended Oxford University, where he had a chaste year-long affair…

English writer, social theorist and notorious homosexual John Addington Symonds was BOTD in 1840. #johnaddingtonsymonds #supergays #bornonthisday

DYK #JosephLister (d.1912), #JohnStuartMill (d.1873), & #JohnAddingtonSymonds (d.1893), suffered from “#hysteria” due to bossy fathers? Doctors of the day ignored it in the belief that only women could be that anxious. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist

; però també tenia a les seves pròpies mans els fils de tota aquesta enrevessada maquinària.

— #JohnAddingtonSymonds, 1879 SaSiI
*img 1881 #JohnSingerSargent Dr. Pozzi at Home, hammer + #JimWigler Rack, in Jan 1995 #DrummeMag No 181
#QueenlyDiptych

🪷 Poet #JohnAddingtonSymonds​ is a Saint of #Antinous for shocking Victorians by openly promoting same sex love and most especially for writing about Antinous. #Symonds died in Rome on 19 April 1893. Full tribute: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/john... 🪷