This 19th-century girl’s acceptance of and love for Eliza is a lesson many 21st century feminists could learn from. The couple lived together for half a century, and their housekeeper said she believed “no two people ever lived more happily.”. The history of queer literature is a long one. From historical accounts to personal testimony, these non-fiction books are a great starting point for experiencing the reality of LGBTQ people’s lives. This book includes interviews with gay veterans, and the author delves into military documents and wartime letters. Take a walk around Piccadilly on a Thursday evening in 1792, and you’ll be at the heart of it all. The book's thesis is that queer US history is US history-- that the two are inseparable-- and I suppose it succeeds in conveying this. When it comes to Black History Month and LGBTQ History Month in the UK, Black British queer lives “fall through the cracks of both of those”, according to social justice activist and sexual health campaigner Marc Thompson who recently launched an empowering new archive on Instagram, Black and Gay, Back in the Day which celebrates Black queer Brits pre-2000. With a group of other Brighton feminists she developed the New Sussex Hospital for Women and Children, where she was Senior Surgeon and Physician. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. But in Trans Britain, it’s suggested a lack of archival information isn’t always a bad thing; sometimes hidden histories can be indicative of the avoidance of scandal. But when we look through the growing genre of queer history books, we go far beyond the headlines. We learn how, in the 13th century, two men would engage in a ceremony to become “wedded brethren”, in the … Whether you’re LGBT yourself or an ally of the rainbow family, we encourage you to download, order or share these books in the name of LGBT education. “I found myself looking for examples of gay men who were happily coupled,” writes Paul Flynn in Good As You (2017), a charting of the last 30 years of British gay life and how it intertwines with pop culture. Louisa lived with her partner Ismay FitzGerald for three decades, and wrote of her love for her in her autobiography A Woman Surgeon, published in 1951. Valuable stories and artefacts are being lost. These deserve a dedicated space to be preserved, explored and celebrated. We learn how, in the 13th century, two men would engage in a ceremony to become “wedded brethren”, in the 16th, playhouses were sites for lust and scandal, and in the 18th, women carried ivory dildos disguised as dolls. Hidden from History by This richly revealing anthology brings together for the first time the vital new … If you do a little digging, you can find the 19th-century inquests of the young actor Eliza Edwards (1833), labourer Harry Stoke (1859), and surgeon James Barry (1865). “It was exhausting but exhilarating and life affirming,” she writes, speaking for much of the study of LGBTQ+ history. In British queer history (and still today), a cottage is a public place known for cruising, usually a public toilet. They have also written a number of books for scholars and counsellors on these … From the ancient poet Sappho to modern women today, this monograph threads lesbian history together in a brilliant and thought-provoking way. Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey … In fact, this list of 13 queer classics offers just a handful of the books that could have been chosen. One rousing example can be found if we leap to Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1778. 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