Collected Item: “Queer History”
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Queer History
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twitter thread
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Queer history is one often unknown sector of history designated to historians writing things such as "good friends" or "roommates" to muddy the waters when it comes to discussing queer individuals. In such examples, people who write to their "friend" of the same sex of their undying love for one another in a romantic sense would be played off not as lovers but "great friends". Another example would be the painting dubbed "Sappho and her Friend" where they are quite literally two women having sex.
This Twitter thread goes through the ins-and-outs of bits of queer history that have been hidden and not much discussed for these aforementioned reasons.
This Twitter thread goes through the ins-and-outs of bits of queer history that have been hidden and not much discussed for these aforementioned reasons.
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#HSE,#Queer,#QueerHistory
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https://twitter.com/JessicaOOTC/status/1328345007066112003?s=20
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Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
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2020-11-16