i hope you’re all aware of the 300 recently discovered love letters between two gay british soldiers during ww2 that are going to be possibly adapted into a film.
they’re beautiful and poetic and tragic and heart-wrenching and brave. i highly suggest going and reading the excerpts.
here’s the one that broke my heart:
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.“
Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.
Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom
Honestly just reblogging for that last one
Probably not historically backed but fuck yes
Eleanor Roosevelt wrote love letters to Lorena Hickok
Several people who knew James Dean have talked about his relationships with men
Letters and poems allude to a romance between Emily Dickinson and at least two women
Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender)
Leonardo da Vinci never married or fathered children, was once brought up on sodomy charges, and a sketch in one of his notebooks is 2 penises walking toward a hole labeled with the nickname of his apprentice
Condivi said that Michelangelo often spoke exclusively of masculine love
Jane Austin never married and wrote about sharing a bed with women (Jane Austen At Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley)
“Alexander was only defeated once…and that was by Hephaestion’s thighs.” is a 2,000 year old quote
I want to hire you to follow me around and defend my honor with meticulous research
LGBT+ MASTERLIST PROJECT BY ROCIO @nuevayor
Week One: TELEVISION
Week Two: MOVIES
Week Three: BOOKS
Week Four: POETRY
Week Five: MUSIC
Week Six: COMICS
Week Seven: DOCUMENTARIES
Week Eight: PODCASTS
Week Nine: YOUTUBERS
Week Eleven: RESOURCES
Week Twelve: THANK YOU + GOODBI
Week Ten: Hello and welcome back to the LGBT+ Masterlist Project!
Today I bring you a whole playlist of LGBT+ history specific YouTube videos, resources for further research, a chronological outline of world LGBT+ history, and a variety of academic journals and articles. Much of the credit for the list goes out to Fordham University, which has an online database full of great resources. Albeit published in 1997 (the online version was last updated over six years ago), Fordham’s database serves so much use to LGBT+ people trying to build an understanding of their community and scholars alike. I have also added many links to journals and articles that were not originally mentioned in Fordham’s database.
Researching LGBT+ history was actually a very hopeful experience for me! To see so much documentation on our history was good. It really gives our educators and the media we consume no excuse to gloss over and - because they do this more often than not - ignore such rich history. So use these references for school, for your own personal gain - it doesn’t really matter. Just don’t forget our history. Don’t forget that we were always here.
As always, I’m here for constructive criticism. If you feel like I’ve referenced or used resources that are harmful (that’s like, gratuitous use of homophobic slurs like h*m*sexual or q*eer, or the use of transphobic or anti-sex work rhetoric - a lot of these resources are dated so it is very likely that these things come up,) please to let me know if you recognize it. I want my masterlists to be a safe place for all of us, so I encourage y’all to call me out if I’ve given a spotlight to someone/something that simply does not deserve it.
Come back within the week for the FINAL MASTERLIST in the series: LGBT+ RESOURCES + SELF HELP! But for now, enjoy history!
LGBT+ HISTORY
rdj kissing josh brolin on the lips is such a power move. the man doesn’t give a single fuck. he’s the male protagonist archetype of this century but he will kiss as many guys as he pleases because he can and there’s nothing hollywood can do about it
i love how the media has rdj as this manly hetero Man Of Iron™ but he lives on a diferent dimension where sexuality is whatever the fuck he wants it to be. he will kiss man and women as he pleases. he will dress in pink and yellow and not give a single fuck.
robert has always not given a single fuck for people’s views in what he should wear and how openly affectioned he can be with men. he’s not here for fragile masculinity and heterosexuality. he will continue to kiss, hug and shower them all with love.
The fact that Julius Caesar burst into tears after reading about Alexander the Great because they were the same age but he could never live up to Alexander is one of the greatest things I’ve learnt as a classics student
Week One: TELEVISION
Week Two: MOVIES
Week Four: POETRY
Week Five: MUSIC
Week Six: COMICS
Week Seven: DOCUMENTARIES
Week Eight: PODCASTS
Week Nine: YOUTUBERS
Week Ten: HISTORY
Week Eleven: RESOURCES
Week Twelve: THANK YOU + GOODBI
Week Three: Welcome back to the LGBT+ Masterlist Project!
Again, I want to thank you all so much for the contributions you’ve given me since I began this project two weeks ago. I’ve had such a good time finding new media every week and it just makes me really excited to actually start consuming all of it when I get the chance! Until then, feel free to contribute to any of my masterlists by dropping a message in my inbox. I post these masterlists once a week and I try to edit once a week as well so all contributions are greatly appreciated!
Please note, I have not read all of these books, so I can’t be the judge of how good the representation is. This is why I welcome you to respectfully inbox me or reblog with comments.
Thanks again to @mightyachillis for the gifset. Next week’s category: LGBT+ POETRY.
And without further ado: LGBT+ BOOKS!
Week One: TELEVISION
Week Three: BOOKS
Week Four: POETRY
Week Five: MUSIC
Week Six: COMICS
Week Seven: DOCUMENTARIES
Week Eight: PODCASTS
Week Nine: YOUTUBERS
Week Ten: HISTORY
Week Eleven: RESOURCES
Week Twelve: THANK YOU + GOODBI
Week Two: Welcome back to the LGBT+ Masterlist Project!
Before I get into this week’s category I want to thank you all so much for the critical support and contributions you’ve given me since making my first masterlist on LGBT+ characters in television. These masterlists will only get better as you help me along my journey to finding more LGBT+ media. Feel free to inbox me, to suggest and add commentary to my growing list. I can’t promise I’ll edit the lists regularly (I am a tiny college student; you can imagine my stress) but I will certainly share for my followers to see. It’s all still greatly appreciated.
This week, I tried to bring down the list to be exclusive to only movies with leading and supporting LGBT+ roles. I tried to avoid movies with cis people playing trans characters, and altogether tried to avoid problematic representation, which should never go unnoticed or without criticism. Please note, I have not seen all of these movies, so I can’t be the judge of how good the representation is. This is why I welcome you to respectfully inbox me or reblog with comments.
Thanks again to @mightyachillis for the gifset. Next week’s category: LGBT+ BOOKS
And without further ado: LGBT+ MOVIES!
1. Born on 16. 3. 1751
2. At only 5'4 (only?well he was still taller than me…), he was the shortest president and never weighed more than 100 pounds
3. They called him Little Jemmy or His Little Majesty
4. He loved ice cream
5. His doctor suggested that he takes stimulants to extend his life to 4th July, but Madison said “No” and died 6 days earlier on 28th June
6. Was suicidal and would often tell people he wished he were dead
7. Had a severe anxiety and even droped out of collage because of it, lying he’d been studying independently
8. Got arrested with Thomas Jefferson for riding a horse carriage on a Sunday in Vermont, which was ILLEGAL!
9. “Accidentally” shipped a ton of prostitutes into US
10. Paranoid over his letters being intercepted so he wrote in only code with Thomas Jefferson
11. He was a president when the White house was burned down during the War of 1812 and the British soldiers ate his dinner, dammit!
12. Sick most of his life and prone to epileptic seizures and hypochondria
13. Had a bawdy sense of humor, at least around his closest friends as he was otherwise awkward and shy af
14. Had a scar on his nose which was caused by frostbite
15. He was best buds with Jefferson
16. Sucked at poetry
17. Normally dressed in black
18. Rarely smiled in public
19. The wife of one Virginia politician refered to him as “a gloomy stiff creature”
20. Signature:
“I love you.”
This one is pretty self explanatory. Men were much more intimate back in the 1700′s, forming bonds that seem very ~gay~ in today’s light. Homosexuality wasn’t a very understood thing back then because rigid moral codes and censured education prevented people from learning more about sexuality.
But Alexander Hamilton knew.
He grew up on an island where ‘Sodomites’ (gay people) were dumped and allowed to mingle with the island population. Alex knew that there was a certain zone of interactions between men that went from being merely friendly to sexual. He clearly steps into the bounds of sexual while fully realizing it.
“In drawing my picture, you will no doubt be civil to your friend; mind you do justice to the length of my nose and don’t forget, that I [- - - - - -].”
Ahhhhhhhhh my son Alex, could you be more explicit? Alex here is obviously referring to his something else (you know) with the knowledge that John Lauren’s knows the size. This sentence right here is basically just one long ;).
“Your friend” seems to be written teasingly, as if they both know how far from friends they are.
And we can only guess how dirty Alex got in those last six CUT OUT words.
“Dear Boy” [sent by John Laurens]
John laurens calls his wife his ‘dear girl’, and here he calls Alex his ‘dear boy’. Moreover, Laurens did not call any other man he ever wrote to as his ‘dear boy’. Laurens seems to see Alex as on the same level, if not higher, as his own wife.
“Did I mean to show my wit? If I did, I am sure I have missed my aim. Did I only intend to [frisk]? In this I have succeeded, but I have done more. I have gratified my feelings, by lengthening out the only kind of intercourse now in my power with my friend.”
This phrase right here I unfortunately do not see a lot when people talk about Alex and John’s letters. This, to me, is one of the most explicit. “Wit” also mean one’s you know what (here I give a nod to the Ravenclaw moto), so Hamilton’s saying he was pretty much just messing around with John the last letter he sent. This is the only sort of “intercourse” he is able to have with John, as they are both so far apart. He is incapable of ‘sexual’ intercourse because of their distance, so he feels he must, in the 18th century way, sext.
“I would invite you after the fall to Albany to be witness to the final consummation.”
As you might have already guessed, Alex is inviting John to a threesome on his wedding night. The idea that Alex feels so at ease inviting John to a threesome with his wife suggests they have already had something going for a long time now.
“But like a jealous lover, when I thought you slighted my caresses, my affection was alarmed and my vanity piqued. I had almost resolved to lavish no more of them upon you and to reject you as an inconstant and an ungrateful –”
Here Alex compares himself to John’s lover, and a jealous one at that. John seems to be shying away from Alex’s bawdiness, as if realizing how strange their relationships is in retrospect. Alex is scrambling to hang on to him, even though he knows well what are and what happens to Sodomites. He would do anything for John while knowing the consequences. And John is too afraid to join him.
And who the hell knows what the last word was.
“And believe me, I am lover in earnest,”
*cough cough* looks like John knows exactly what happens when Alex’s feeling frisky.
“She [Eliza] loves you a l'americaine not a la francoise.”
The French were renowned for their relaxed stance on extramarital love affairs, while Americans were more Puritan-minding and thought love affairs only should happen in church-sanctioned marriages. Thus Eliza has an a l’americaine love of John Laurens, rather than an a la francoise.
“You will be pleased to recollect in your negotiations that I have no invincible antipathy to the maidenly beauties & that I am willing to take the trouble of them upon myself.”
*cough* this sentence is a bit confusing, and could be taken a few ways. What I infer from this is that Alexander Hamilton is willing, and John knows this, to assume an air of femininity because he finds no fault with it. It was commonly noted by people who wrote of Hamilton that he was very feminine in comparison with other men of his day. Alex’s femininity seems to please John, the topic even having been discussed between the two in ‘negotiations’.
“My ravings are for your own bosom” Alex desperately misses Laurens’ intimate contact in a way that, in my opinion, could never be mistaken as simply friendship. Alex literally wants to be held by John. How fucking heartbreaking is that.
“Yrs for ever”
Ok, this one isn’t sexual, but I had to add it because it is so heartbreaking. This was Alex’s last farewell note to John. That is, if he even received it. He died shortly after Alex sent the letter; whether he read the farewell or not is all lost to history. Alex loved John so much, despite the fact that both already had a wife. He would have always loved him, even if they had grown apart…
That’s it folks: time for me to cry.
People keep complaining in the tags of my art about the dual casting so I’ve decided to draw two grown men who are professionals kissing tenderly in character.
I’m putting this on Anthony’s dressing room door, it’s lovely.
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Fratte for Anon 1/3
I’ve had a lot of requests for some good old Fratte so have this: AU where Katte didn’t die and lived to see Fritz become king and tear his way through Europe :3ccc
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