#Queer History

[cheerfulomelette]

We have always been here and we will always be here, and there is nothing they can do about it

[atomicradiogirl]

excerpts from 'coming out under fire: the history of gay men and women in WWII' by allan berube

[transqueenqnano]

Trans girl needs new set of lovers and some Reblogs too. Text me on telegram for my services 😉telegram @ Trannynano55

[quailfence]

#oscar wilde#comic art#we all end up reinventing the concept of an afterlife at some point because endings are too difficult to bear#and this is a particularly lovely reinvention

(tags by @arsenic-lobster )

I’m in Vegas and in order to avoid being overstimulated my spouse and I are pretending that we’re showing Oscar Wilde around, and tbh? It’s working. He loved Magic Mike Live

[justdavina]

Stunning Transgender Goddess!

[shamebats]

There was this true story of a young girl in Vienna whose parents sent her to see Sigmund Freud because she was hopelessly in love with an older (married?) woman and Freud ended up telling her parents that the problem wasn't that she was homosexual, but that she was unhappily in love. It was in the news at the time because the girl tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train. I remember the details but not her name and it frustrates me.

[squidhominid]

About Marsha P. Johnson

So, someone reblogged my Stonewall protest poster claiming that Marsha P. Johnson 'did not like being called a trans woman' and referring to her as a he/him drag queen, and I was initially going to look the other way, but it just, bothered me enough I finally wanted to say something about it.

The 1980s were a different time. Back then, the distinction between being trans and simply being in drag was a lot more fluid. Marsha P. Johnson was not 'not a trans woman', she simply drew a distinction that I don't think we would naturally come to today. That being, a continuum of identities between 'drag', what she called a 'transvestite', and what she called 'transsexual'.

To her, a 'drag queen' was someone who presented feminine some of the time, a 'transvestite' was someone who presented feminine all of the time, and a 'transsexual' was someone who medically transitioned. The term 'trans woman' was not in use at the time, and would not have occurred to her. She, personally, identified as a 'transvestite' under her definitions, and she used she/her pronouns, contrary to the insistence by this Tumblr user that she did not and that she 'did not like' the term trans woman being applied to her.

tl;dr? Please, god, learn some fucking history, and stop using a warped version of history to justify bigotry, because before you blocked me I had the chance to see some pretty nasty and blatantly transphobic stuff on your blog. Thanks.

[janusfranc15]

John Boswell’s book is Excellent, and delves a little into WHY Homophobia became Normalized within the Church.

(With the answer being more complex than ‘The Old Testament’ as the verses used to support Homophobia were often interpreted differently early-on. (Sodom and Gomorrah was interpreted as more of a Why You Don’t Violate Guest Right than a specific condemnation of Gay Sex, with Jesus himself alluding to this interpretation. Paul’s letters condemning Gay Sex- if it was even written by him, and not a later writer doing so under his name- uses a word -Arsenokoitai- that does not correspond to the usual ones used to describe Homosexuality at the time.)

What article would you recommend to someone just getting into queer history?

It would really depend on the person and what they are looking for in terms of queer history, but how about we do a choose-your-own-adventure type answer!

Are you looking for a look at how we got to where we are today in terms of queer history?

Read: Magnus Hirschfeld or Maryam Khatoon Molkara

Are you looking to find comfort in the fact that queerness has existed throughout history?

Read: Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum or Sir Ewan Forbes 

Are you looking to have some of your preconceived notions about queer history to be challenged?

Read: The Golden Orchid Society or Rotimi Fani-Kayode

Does queer history intimidate you because you are afraid of it being a list of tragedies?

Read: The Ladies of Llangollen or Jackie Shane

Do you want to learn about the intersection of queer and disability history?

Read: Lou Sullivan or Victoria Arellano 

Do you want queerness that resonates with lesser-known/discussed identities?

Read: Kristina King of Sweden or Zinaida Gippius 

Are you looking for more information about names you already recognize?

Read: Sappho or Langston Hughes

Are you looking to be pulled into a rabbit hole of queer history?

Read: Edward Carpenter or Xulhaz Mannan 

Are you looking for someone within your region?

Read: Making Queer History by country

Just searching for an odd little slice of queer history to wet your appetite?

Read: Elmyr de Hory or Salim Halali 

Just want to know something new?

Read: Bajazid Doda or Geoffrey Bawa

Just looking for a story to grip you emotionally?

Read: Emmeline Freda Du Faur or Zdeněk Koubek 

I hope you find something in this list that helps!

[thosemotivationalquotes]

I saw something in the news today that truly took my breath away. If you have been paying attention to U.S. politics over the past few days, you’ve most likely seen this woman:

This is Bishop Mariann Budde, and on Monday (Trump’s inauguration) she led an interfaith prayer for Trump and the incoming administration. During the service she asked him to have mercy for LGBTQ+ Americans and undocumented immigrants. This was badly received by the Trump administration (as expected).

After seeing headlines about this woman, I read something that I wanted to share. In 1998 a man named Matthew Shepard was murdered for being gay. I’m not going to get into the details of his death on this post, but please be warned it is extremely triggering if you do choose to read more on your own. Matthew Shepard’s death caused a lot of change in the U.S. regarding how LGBTQ hate crimes are handled, and laws that were passed to protect LGBTQ+ people.

Now you’re probably wondering what Matthew Shepard has to do with an Episcopal bishop. For years after Matthew Shepard’s murder, his family had held onto his remains, too scared to lay him to rest in fear of his final resting place being vandalized. In 2018, Budde had his remains interred at the National Cathedral, which is also the place where the interfaith prayer for Trump and his administration took place. The impact of this really had an effect on me. Budde could have led a non confrontational prayer service, and chosen not to mention the harm that will come to the people Trump and his administration are going after. Instead she chose to call out hate and fear in front of some of the most powerful people on the planet, and at a place that has such a large historic meaning to the LGBTQ community.

In the next few years there will be many challenges in protecting free speech, standing up against hate, and protecting those in our communities. But I would like to believe that for every Donald Trump and Elon Musk, there are people like Marianne Budde. There are those of us who can’t speak up for themselves, so it’s important for those of us who can to amplify our voices, even if it’s not the ‘popular’ thing to do.

“And he said you should apologize. Will you apologize?

I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others.” - Mariann Budde’s response in a Time interview

Link to articles: x x x

Link to the Matthew Shepard Foundation if you would like to donate

[makingqueerhistory]

I was looking to see if there was any audiobook for the next book in my read-through of the Stonewall Book Award Winners, and no, there isn't, but this is a very good sign.

[nerdygaymormon]

[transastronautistic]

ID:

Rows of pins, three per row: a bisexual colored heart; three fruits holding hands with text reading "Love is a many gendered thing"; a skull with sunglasses on in the bi colors, shaped to look like the male and female symbols looped by a central circle

A frog on a log saying "what a lovely day to be bisexual"; an ocean scene in bi colors; a blue figure and pink figure kissing either cheek of a purple figure who is all wobbly and grinning with "oui oui" written above

A zombie monster with horns stalks into a room with a disco ball and startled looking person with text reading "bisexual boogeyman"; a blue circle with feet and hands, big purple shades and a pink cowboy hat giving two peace signs and smiling huge; a big vampire lady and big wolf man sitting with a very happy looking pumpkin guy squeezed in between them

Dripping text on a purple background reading "bloodcurdling bisexual; three figures all kissing each other, one pink one purple one blue; text with bi colored letters reading "love is a many gendered thing"

bisexual pins by StrawberryPrism

[queerasfact]

Lesbian centenarian Ruth Ellis was born in the 19th century, and lived into the 21st. Despite having no queer role-models, Ruth came out as a lesbian in her teens, and in the 1930s, she began a relationship with Babe Franklin.

Ruth and Babe were together for 30 years, with their home in Detroit forming a centre for queer Black life, and a refuge for queer Black people in the years before the Civil Rights movement and Stonewall.

In 1999, when she turned 100, Ruth was celebrated as the USA’s oldest living out lesbian.

Check out our podcast on Ruth to learn more!

[allthebooksandcrannies]

Good news in the world!!! Read the article here.

The law also will extend adoption and inheritance rights to same-sex couples!

[aerithpilled]

the butch/femme scene of 1990s san francisco by chloe sherman

[happinesswithmysticharmony]

Black history is our history. LGBTQ history is our history.

In 1984, Simon Nkoli was arrested for his anti-apartheid activist. While in prison awaiting trial, he was outed as gay. Despite fears of backlash, Simon received an outpouring of support from the international queer community, which in turn led to greater international support for group he was arrested with, known as the Delmas 22, and for anti-apartheid work more broadly.

Following his acquittal, Simon co-founded GLOW, a group fighting for the rights of queer people in Johannesburg’s Black townships. Simon was involved in organising Johannesburg’s first Pride march in 1990, and ensured that gay and lesbian rights were enshrined in the new post-apartheid constitution of South Africa.

Check out our podcast on Simon to learn more!