1.0link205399<![CDATA[Homo Sex in Colonial America]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-kramer/homo-sex-in-colonial-amer_b_205399.htmlNo, there was no right word for it that you wanted to use for it if you were doing it. Buggery and sodomy connoted anal penetration and thus were, in many places, punishable by death.
That does not mean that men did not know they were gay (to use today's word), know what to do with their cocks, know when they were smitten with other men, know where to go to find them, know what it meant to get violently rejected,...