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The Norfolk LGBT+ History Club has some exciting events coming up this May - July!
The club is free and open to all - just drop-in.
Coming up...
🌈 Queering the Coronation with Dr Jane Hattrick
📅 Sat 13th May, 11am
📍 @NorfolkHC
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#LGBTQHistory
The club is free and open to all - just drop-in.
Coming up...
🌈 Queering the Coronation with Dr Jane Hattrick
📅 Sat 13th May, 11am
📍 @NorfolkHC
(1/4)
#LGBTQHistory
🌈 Archive Talk: Women on Women and Lesbian Line with Jojo and Lucy
📅 Sat 10th June, 11am
📍 @NorfolkHC
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📅 Sat 10th June, 11am
📍 @NorfolkHC
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🌈 Queering the Pitch: How Life Has Changed for LGBTQ+ Fans with Di Cunningham
📅 Fri 30th June, 1.30pm for a 2pm start
📍 Sheringham Library
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📅 Fri 30th June, 1.30pm for a 2pm start
📍 Sheringham Library
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This seems to portray a grown man with an adolescent boy. #LGBTQHistory indeed.
Pagan Rome viewed children as closer to objects than people. That plus the institution of slavery plus tolerance of (certain kinds) of homosexual relationships had predictable consequences for sexual exploitation: #LGBTQHistory theweek.com/articles/55102…
This article does an excellent job explaining the Ancient view of sex and how it bears little relation to contemporary descriptions of "LGBTQ identity": uvm.edu/~jbailly/cours…
It's nearly impossible to begin to disentangle the fight for LGBTQ+ rights from the battle for AIDS education, prevention, protections and awareness.
So I try to begin each Pride month by recognising some of the people who were truly pioneers that helped shape my own work as an AIDS activist, a social justice warrior, civil rights ally, and LGBTQ+ activist.
And that list always begins with some of those pioneers who can easily get "lost" in the pages of history...
Queer women.
Queer women.
Ok, so this isn’t your classic #BadHistoryGoesViral.
“Mate” is older; it’s from 14th century German for “someone you share food with”. So the matey thing isn’t true
Sure! Some pirates were possibly queer, in both homoerotic & homosexual sense, but we lack evidence
CONT 👇
“Mate” is older; it’s from 14th century German for “someone you share food with”. So the matey thing isn’t true
Sure! Some pirates were possibly queer, in both homoerotic & homosexual sense, but we lack evidence
CONT 👇
Matelotage sounds like a civil union between two men, hence the romantic appeal, but it was part of a wider culture of “Tontine” which was an insurance policy commonly operated in the 17-19th centuries for sailors in which two or more men agreed to divide the kitty all or nothing
Tontine was a bit like a sweepstake or lottery on board a vessel. Sailors could agree to contract their earnings into a shared pot with a designated “last man standing” rule for whoever was left at the end. So, it wasn’t so much an intimate partnership as a pragmatic deal
