faedread (@faedread.art)

i wrote something genuinely new every historical fiction writer projecting modern identity categories onto 18th-century characters needs to read this. every person who thinks "people haven't changed, there were always gay people" needs to read this. i don't say that lightly. I mean it.

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The Homosexual Was Invented in 1869 From Plato's Symposium to the AIDS crisis: why your period drama keeps getting sexuality wrong, and how to fix it. https://logbook.deadstar.black/p/the-homosexual-was-invented-in-1869