Hello fellow iCloners!
This iClone-5-animated short film is dedicated to the memory of the great, openly gay socialist philosopher and poet Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929), who was also an anthologist and early homosexual rights activist.
http://youtu.be/eGL7UStLGDYSeveral of Mr. Carpenter's gay-themed works include:
“Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society”, 1894
“Love's Coming of Age”, 1896
“Ioläus: Anthology of Friendship”, 1908
“The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women”, 1912
A leading figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain, he was instrumental in the foundation of the Fabian Society and the Labour Party. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Walt Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore, corresponding with many famous figures such as Annie Besant, Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Roger Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, James Keir Hardie, J. K. Kinney, Jack London, George Merrill, E D Morel, William Morris, E R Pease, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner.
An early advocate of sexual freedoms, he had a profound influence on both D. H. Lawrence and Aurobindo, and inspired E. M. Forster’s first openly gay-themed novel “Maurice” (1913).
It was his belief that at sometime in the future, gay people would be the cause of radical social change in the social conditions of man. Carpenter remarks in his work The Intermediate Sex:
“Eros is a great leveller. Perhaps the true Democracy rests, more firmly than anywhere else, on a sentiment which easily passes the bounds of class and caste, and unites in the closest affection the most estranged ranks of society. It is noticeable how often Uranians [late-19th-century term for “homosexuals” coined by Uranian rights activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) in the 1860s] of good position and breeding are drawn to rougher types, as of manual workers, and frequently very permanent alliances grow up in this way, which although not publicly acknowledged have a decided influence on social institutions, customs and political tendencies.”
Hope you enjoy this VERY short film (which I managed to put together within a couple of days).
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From W.H. Auden's (1907-1973) 1942 poem "Canzone":
When shall we learn, what should be clear as day,
We cannot choose what we are free to love?
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August Graf von Platen-Hallermünde (1796-1835),
Auszug aus einem "An Justus Liebig" gerichteten Gedicht von 1828:
Soll bergen ich mein innerstes Vermögen,
Was ich empfinde zu bekennen schwanken?
Ich schämte mich der eigenen Gedanken,
Wenn sie, wie Schwalben, an der Erde flögen.
Hienieden lohnt's der Mühe nicht, zu zagen,
Und wahr und frei zu sprechen kleidet Jeden,
Da bald wir Alle ruhn in Sarkophagen.
Edited
11 Years Ago by
hutchartwork