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Who Were History’s “Female Husbands”? with Professor Jen Manion

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Queer History - Is There a History of Sexuality?

"i think it's important for us to learn about these histories, like we deserve to have queer and trans trancestors," she says. But the world was also so different 102 hundred years ago, "so it's not necessarily helpful or accurate for us to think about these people as being exactly the same as us." The idea that homosexuality is interior to oneself really invented at the end of the nineteenth century,. writes Saeed Akhtar. 'This is now not just something i do, this is my identity'

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