Queer, There and Everywhere by Sarah Prager
#LouderForThePeopleInTheBack But when we make assumptions about any historical figure, we rewrite the past without even knowing it.p1 The version of history we learn in school puts a straight cisgender mask on almost everyone. p1 Recognizing the world's rich history of queerness helps reduce homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia, and helps welcome queer identities to the mainstream with love and acceptance. p2 Why homosexuals were one of the colonists' most popular scapegoats remains unclear. It wasn't just a bad interpretation of the Bible, since colonial states didn't outlaw greediness and other things Christianity forbids. p8 It matters that we say and demonstrate how queerness itself is as old as time, because people still find it counterintuitive to their conceptions of history. p213 Thinking about the amount of progress yet to be accomplished can be overwhelming, but when we put it in the context of all of time , we see that we've been going in the...