Don Leon
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Don Leon is a 19th century poem attributed to Lord Byron celebrating sodomy. It was probably written in the 1830s after Byron's death, possibly by George Colman the Younger.[1] It was published in 1866 by William Dugdale, who appears to have believed initially in the attribution to Byron as he attempted to use it to blackmail Byron's family.
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- ^ Knight, George Wilson (1971). "Chapter 2". Neglected powers: essays on nineteenth and twentieth century literature. Routledge. ISBN 0710066813.
- Louis Crompton, "Don Leon, Byron and homosexual law reform", in Literary visions of homosexuality (ed. Stuart Kellogg), Volume 6 of Research on homosexuality, Routledge, 1983, ISBN 0866561838, p.53
- Steven Marcus, "The other Victorians: a study of sexuality and pornography in mid-nineteenth-century England", Transaction Publishers, 2008, ISBN 1412808197, p.76
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