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JUNE 14, 2023
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For this Pride month, why not flex your LGBTQ+ cues with these items that will make your summer both cooler and gayer.
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Sunglasses not only signal your style, but when you teeter on the edge of novelty, the also possess the power to flaunt your fabulousness to the world.
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Get Back at the Book Ban
Need a book to brighten up your Pride month? With all the book bans in effect, we should all support queer writers and stories. For example this story of teenage love and summer fun.
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The idea that LGBTQ+ history is simply a tale of modern queer liberation or the triumph of “progress” over homophobia is not a complete or accurate picture. Queer people have been challenging heteronormativity and gender for centuries. In the new series, Historical Homos, executive produced by Zachary Quinto, hosts Bash and Donal Brophy celebrate Pride and delve into the full history of the LGBTQ+ community, aiming to prove that identities and the fluidity of gender are more than trends or whims.
This is our “Queer, Cool Summer” issue. Why was it important to make queer history fun and cool?
Bash: Because it is fun and cool. Most people think queer history started when someone threw the first brick at Stonewall, but that’s a heteronormative view of human history. Some of the greatest, most accomplished, most absurd, most entertaining figures in history were queer. Socrates? Had a boyfriend. Michelangelo? Obsessed with a gorgeous twink. Virginia Woolf? Literally invented lesbian love letters. Even Queen Marie Antoinette was rumored to enjoy letting her ladies-in-waiting literally and figuratively eat her cake.
Who would you name as the coolest queer in history?
Donal: Oscar Wilde sticks out as the coolest for me, obviously for his body of work, but also
because he went on trial for being gay, stood firm and fought, and was sentenced to hard labor.
Bash: One of the most fascinating figures to me is the transgender spy, diplomat, intellectual, and soldier from 18th-century France, who we cover in our second episode. The Chevalier d’Eon had a rollicking life, working for kings, going to royal masquerade balls in drag, spying for decades, and eventually transitioning their gender publicly - 250 years ago!
What proof do you have of William Shakespeare’s bisexual proclivities?
Bash: He wrote about 120 sonnets to a “Fair Youth,” a young man who has been potentially identified as Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. At the very least, Shakespeare portrays an interest in having sex with this Fair Youth in some of his Sonnets. And he talks about the Fair Youth’s hold over him. It’s possible that the Fair Youth is a poetic device, but we can’t avoid the fact that Shakespeare was writing about being in love with a young man.
There’s been some debate about Socrates’ sexuality.
Bash: Socrates had a wife, like most Athenian men. But he spoke and thought about passionate love between men in a huge number of the dialogues that Plato and Xenophon’s writings record. He was known to be in love with Alcibiades, the dashing young aristocrat who
served with him in battle and appears drunkenly at the end of the “Symposium,” trying to get Socrates to sleep with him.
Why is it important that we out these historical figures once and for all?
Donal: The world was a very different place even up until the 1960s. We believe it’s important these people get their moment and the recognition they deserve.
Bash: It is important that people today see themselves in the past. That kind of historical community gives queer people a sense of legitimacy and solidarity. And all these figures prove that homosexuality, queerness, and gender fluidity are not modern inventions. They are fixtures of all human societies. We need to challenge the narrative that queerness was invented 150 years ago.
Historical Homos is executive produced by Zachary Quinto and streaming now on Dekkoo.com, a subscription streaming service dedicated to gay men.
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Juneteenth
- And why we need to celebrate it
By Miko Evans
Sources: The Smithsonian Institution
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Juneteenth is one of the newest treasures added to the list of federal national holidays.
Union soldiers, many of whom were black, marched onto plantations and across cities in the South, reading small copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and spreading the news of freedom in the Confederate States. Only through the Thirteenth Amendment did emancipation end slavery throughout the United States.
While many in our country consider this a recent phenomenon, the black community has carried this tradition for years. For those who don’t know the reason for this memorable holiday, let’s bring our attention to American history.
The post-emancipation period, Reconstruction (1865-1877), marked an era of great hope, uncertainty, and struggle for the nation. Formerly enslaved people immediately sought to reunify families, establish schools, run for political office, push radical legislation, and even sue slaveholders for compensation. Given the 200+ years of enslavement, such changes were remarkable. Not even a generation out of slavery, African Americans were inspired and empowered to transform their lives and country.
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Juneteenth is a holiday celebrated on June 19 to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the US. The holiday was first celebrated in Texas, where on that date in 1865, in the aftermath of the Civil War, enslaved people were declared free under the terms of the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation.
However, many history books forgot to mention that not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. According to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Emancipation Proclamation could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, enslaved people would not be free in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as “Juneteenth” by the newly freed people in Texas.
Because of the continued injustice that people of color still face, Juneteenth was considered the black community’s independence day. Many millennial and Gen-Z African-Americans no longer had an interest in investing their time celebrating July 4 as many felt this country never really rectified its original sin, “Slavery.” Although long celebrated in the black community, this monumental event remains largely unknown to most Americans.
Juneteenth makes the 2nd holiday dedicated to African-American heritage (The 1st being MLK Holiday).
The historical legacy of Juneteenth shows the value of perseverance, strength, determination, and endurance. Making this moment a national holiday was long overdue and a step in the right direction for this country to heal and progress.
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