Manor

Manor tells the story of undying love two youths, Manor and Har. Nineteen-year-old sailor Manor saves Har, four years his junior, from drowning. A friendship develops, and Har's heart breaks when his friend leaves on a whaling voyage. When the ship is returning it wrecks, and Har sees his friend drown. But the love between Manor and Har could not die even in death. Manor returns as a vampire.

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825 – 1895) was a German lawyer, jurist, journalist, and writer who is regarded today as a pioneer of sexology and the modern gay rights movement. Ulrichs has been described as the "first gay man in world history." On August 29, 1867, Ulrichs became the first homosexual to speak out publicly in defence of homosexuality when he pleaded at the Congress of German Jurists in Munich for a resolution urging the repeal of anti-homosexual laws. Ulrichs moved around Germany, always writing and publishing, and always in trouble with the law for his words . In 1864, his books were confiscated and his works were banned throughout Prussia. Some of these papers have recently been found in the Prussian state archives and were published in 2004. Already several of Ulrichs's more important works are back in print, both in German and in translation.

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Rafbók: 2 november 2023