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eliounora · 2 years ago

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my pet peeve is those "historians thought they were very good friends" jokes, like obviously for sure there are homophobic historians, but the study of same-sex desire and relationships of the past is also quite complex and you can't often go and simply label people's relationships or identities of time gone by, and sometimes it's more complicated and elusive than "they were a couple" or even "they were in love"

#nor's rambles #being a bit of a queer theorist here #note also that historical research is interpreting source material and source material seldom is straightforward #different historians will likely come to different conclusions #i would also say!!! that i don't think a lot of people really know the history of labels and lgbtq+ knowledge #like lady gaga saying BORN THIS WAY can be liked all the way back to sexologists like havelock ellis saying that homosexuality is innate an #hence not a disease or a crime

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