What's in a name - or a label? 👀 One of the hardest aspects of writing about Queer History 🌈 is wrestling with identity, labels and language across time and space. But we should still write the canon of queer history regardless. #BookSky #LGBTQIA andreamariana.substack.com/p/you-cant-s...

Did an excavation in 1880 yield the remains of a fabled army of warrior-lovers? 👀❤️ Part 2 of my Queer History series on the Sacred Band of Thebes! ⚔️🌈 #LGBTQIA #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-sacred...

It's the 1st Sunday of Pride 🌈 and my Queer History Substack returns this week with one of my **favorite** ancient stories! Was the "sacred band" of gay warrior-lovers real? Who were they, and who came up with this idea anyway? 😅 #LGBTQIA #BookSky andreamariana.substack.com/p/queer-love...

Happy first Friday of #Pride!! 🌈🥰 Why not roll into the weekend with some ancient Queer History? My latest blogpost considers the "First Gay Couple" found in an Old Kingdom Egyptian tomb - and what they can tell us about "queering history" #BookSky #LGBTQIA #QueerHistory andreamariana.com?p=1927

Happy Pride y'all! We've always been here; always will be. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🤍 #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA

🔥 🌈 Hot off the Substack 🌈🔥 I won't lie...this was a tough piece, but I needed to get some of this off my chest. My reflection for Pride: placing this troubled moment in its queer historical context, and how our history shapes how we move forward ➡️ andreamariana.substack.com/p/past-as-pr...

Lucy Anderson's story of defiance, set against the repression of the Lavender Scare, has always amazed me. This week's Queer History 🏳️‍🌈 Substack shares the second part of her fascinating story ⬇️ #QueerHistory #BookSky #LGBT andreamariana.substack.com/p/what-i-am-...

📣 🌈 Literary Agents and Industry Professionals!!! 📣🌈 #QueerPit is just seven weeks away! 😍 We are reaching out to agents and industry professionals starting next week, so look for QueerPit in your inbox 📥 If you would like to be added to our list, please DM us!

✨️ 🌈 Brand new Queer History ✨️ 🌈 This week's post is Part 1 of the story of Lucy Hicks Anderson - a WWII era Black transgender icon and SoCal legend. ⬇️ Check it out! #QueerHistory #BookSky #LGBT andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-black-tr...

🌈 Brand new Queer History 🌈 hot off the Sub$tack for another Sapphic Sunday 🥰 What was a "tribade" and why is this 16th century word part of lesbian history? ⬇️ 🧡🩷🤍 andreamariana.substack.com/p/tribade-qu...

🚨 Brand new Queer History! 🌈🚨 This week, my Sub$tack wraps up my Gay Versailles series. Spicy queer drama in the Rococo age at Europe's most infamous palace. Check it out! ⬇️ andreamariana.substack.com/p/gay-versai...

BREAKING: A Virginia court has REJECTED the Republican lawsuit challenging the legislature’s authority to alter the 2021 congressional map. The new map could give Democrats up to four more seats in Congress.

Happy Lesbian Day of Visibility!!! 🧡🩷🤍 What better time to showcase some of history's most fascinating, inspiring, and iconic lesbians and their stories? 🥰⬇️ #QueerHistory #BookSky #LesbianDayofVisibility andreamariana.substack.com/p/crowns-of-...

Every now and then when I read novels with allo characters written by allo authors I'm like...damn I really am ace, aren't I? Cause the way y'all experience attraction is WILD to me...like, Error 404 level

If you saw Olivia Rodrigo's new music video, you know that the French royal palace of Versailles is ✨️dazzling!✨️ But the court of the "Sun King" Louis XIV had plenty of "rainbows" too 🌈 Read more about the #QueerHistory of Versailles below ⬇️ #LGBTQIA andreamariana.substack.com/p/gay-versai...

It's my latest Rainbow Bouquet 💐 🌈 Substack note! This week, I discuss how the pansy flower became an iconic symbol associated with the rise of drag performances in the US 💃✨️ Read more below ⬇️ #LGBT #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-pansy-...

Tomorrow is International Asexuality Day! 🤍🖤💜 As your ✨️ local, friendly, neighborhood aroace ✨️ my latest Queer History Substack considers how "asexuality" came to be 😉 Check it out ⬇️ There's cake! 🧁#LGBTQIA #BookSky #History andreamariana.substack.com/p/never-invi...

For any writer who needs to hear this: You don't have to write a bestselling literary masterpiece 📚💸 Write the book you wish existed 🌸✨

With Trans Day of Visibility on Tuesday, my ✨️ Queer History Substack ✨️ this week covers one of my favorite research topics: goddesses of the trans+ community! 👸🧜🏼‍♀️💫 You can read about a few of these fascinating deities below ⬇️ #QueerHistory #BookSky andreamariana.substack.com/p/trans-godd...

Did a former FLOTUS run away to Italy with her girlfriend? 👭👀 It's my latest Queer History 🌈 Substack - Part 2 of Rose Cleveland's fascinating story. Read it below ⬇️ andreamariana.substack.com/p/together-i...

So there is plenty of speculation about historical gay US Presidents...but what about a lesbian First Lady? 👀👭🇺🇸 My latest Substack this week features Rose Cleveland 🌹a 19th Century FLOTUS - with a girlfriend! #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-lesbia...

15 asexual and aromantic paranormal stories have been put together for this anthology. We wanna bring it to life and for that we need your help! If you like cryptids, demons, werewolves, ghosts and so much more, you know what to do 🌎📚💙

Happy International Women's Day - especially to the bisexual baddies out there! 🩷💜💙 Did you know there is a flower 🌼 just for you all? My latest Queer History post considers the Trillium flower and its ties to the bi community ⬇️ #QueerHistory #BookSky andreamariana.substack.com/p/bisexual-f...

Well, despite ***gestures at everything*** 😐 ...Today is the start of Women's History Month! 🩷 😁 My latest post explores some fabulous queer women in history to kick off March 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Read it below ⬇️ #BookSky #QueerHistory #History andreamariana.substack.com/p/celebratin...

As Black History Month comes to a close, I am delighted to share the story of a famous Black lesbian activist - and a photo 📸 that changed history! 👀🌈 Read about Ernestine Eckstein in my ✨️ brand new ✨️ Queer History post below ⬇️ #amwriting #LGBT #QueerHistory #BookSky andreamariana.com?p=1899

As Black History Month comes to a close this week, my final Substack for February features one of my favorite queer historical icons - the "Bronze Venus" Josephine Baker! ✨️💃✨️ Dancer, actress, spy and activist - you can read her story here ⬇️ #BookSky #LGBT andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-bisexu...

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Make sure to check out events happening this week. www.arospecweek.org/get-involved...

Happy Aromantic Week!!! 💚🖤🤍 My latest Substack covers the meaning of aromanticism, its microlabels, the importance of representation and much more! Check it out ⬇️ #BookSky #LGBTQIA #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/aromantics...

You know what happens after Valentines Day? 💝 Aromantic Week, of course! 😉💚🖤🤍 So today, I have a ✨️Brand New✨️ Queer History post - Part 2 of my Aromantic History series! #QueerHistory #Aromantic #LGBTQIA #BookSky andreamariana.com?p=1888

Sick of snowcrete? 🥶😓 Me too! So let's talk about the sapphic history of violets and dream about Spring flowers! 🥰💜🪻 It's Pt. 3 of my Rainbow Bouquet 💐 🏳️‍🌈 series on Sub$tack! #BookSky #QueerHistory #LGBT andreamariana.substack.com/p/sapphos-vi...

Happy Friday! Since today is the first Friday of Black History Month, I wanted to reshare the story of one of my favorite Black queer American icons - musician Gladys Bentley! 🎩🎼🎹 You can learn more about the "Drag King of Harlem" below ⬇️ #amwriting #BookSky #LGBT share.google/BoD8mLZH0ucQ...

Here at the beginning of Black History Month, my Substack this week shares a few of the fascinating individuals and historical icons of Black Queer History. You can read more below! ⬇️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #QueerHistory #BookSky #History andreamariana.substack.com/p/black-quee...

Well, if anyone needs a timeline break (fuck 🧊, by the way), and would prefer to think about queer flowers for a hot minute...💐 My latest Substack features the exquisite green carnation and its connections to Oscar Wilde 💚⬇️ #amwriting #LGBT #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-rainbow-...

minnesota coming together to show us all how to stand up against ICE is such a beautiful display of what solidarity looks like

✨️🌈 Brand new Queer History post this week! 🌈✨️ Fellow aromantics, this one's for you 🤍🖤💚 Where do we have evidence for aromantics in the ancient world? 🤔 Check out Part 1 of my series on Aromantic History! ⬇️ #LGBTQIA #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.com?p=1872

I am so excited to be part of the #QueerPit Board again this year, and I can't wait to see the incredible pitches from my fellow queer writers 💗 🌈🥰

We all have a right to be angry at GOP voters -- that almost goes without saying. But I still maintain a special reserve of vitriol for people who can't be bothered to vote at all. They, by themselves, could have prevented this. They, by themselves, can stop this whenever they want to.

Asexual characters are underrepresented across literature, but especially Historical Fiction This week on Substack, I tackle ace representation in historical writing and offer ideas for portraying "the invisible orientation" 🤍🖤💜 #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/invisible-...

Like an idiot, I started an Aromantic History blogpost for Aro Week in February, thinking it would be an easy 1500 words to cover the basics. ....and now I'm staring down 4000 words (so far 🙃) and realizing this is going to a Part 2 🫣 🖤🤍💚 #BookSky #LGBTQIA #QueerHistory

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

Since it feels like we are drowning in chaos atm 🙃 this week's Queer History Substack looks at the queer associations of lavender 💜 Lavender Scares, Marriages, clothes and more! Part 1 of my Rainbow Bouquet series below ⬇️🌈💐 #LGBT #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-rainbow-...

For anyone who could use a break from the news cycle 🫣 my latest Queer History Substack is live! This week, I discuss the "English Sappho" and her contributions to sapphic literature in the 17th Century 🤍🩷🧡 Read it here! ⬇️ #QueerHistory #BookSky andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-englis...

Me, waking up this morning, to 2026:

🌈 Final NEW Queer History blog for 2025 🥰 Was Plato 🇬🇷 really about that "platonic" life...or was he getting dangerously close to some Sicilian tyrants? 🤔 Read more below! ⬇️ #BookSky #WritingCommunity #LGBT #QueerHistory andreamariana.com?p=1850

In a world that's on fire, where is queer joy? 🌈 What do thousands of years of queer history convey about what joy represents in moments of darkness? A few reflections in this week's post ⬇️ #BookSky #History #LGBTQIA andreamariana.substack.com/p/finding-jo...

🔥 Hot off the Substack! 🔥 Last week, I shared the 1st half of Queen Christina of Sweden's story - and love affair with a lady in waiting 🩷👀 This week, I discuss her 2nd Act in Rome and how a queer icon ended up in St. Peter's Basilica 😅 #BookSky andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-lesbian-...

I think the freezing cold 🥶 😅 inspired me to share one of my fav Queer History tales from the Far North - the iconic Christina of Sweden! 👑🩷🧡🤍👑 You can read Part 1 of her story fresh off my newest Substack post ⬇️ #BookSky #LGBT andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-lesbian-...

Remember as you gear up for family gatherings this week, if anyone asks “are you still doing that writing thing?” you ARE entitled to challenge them to single combat.

There are few things I love as much as an aroace 🧡💙🤍 historical figure! Check out my latest Substack on the STEM queen of late Antiquity - Hypatia of Alexandria #BookSky #WritingCommunity #LGBT #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/an-ancient...