"but the text never explicitly stated it!!!" hey, so that's actually what they tried to teach you in those english classes you barely passed 😁

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The Importance of Studying Queerness in Context.

When studying queer history, one always has to keep in mind two seemingly contradictory things: firstly, that queerness and queer people have always existed, but at the same time, that queerness and queer identities have not always existed the way they exist today.

Modern queer terms and identities did not exist to queer people in the past. They would not have thought of themselves as "gay" or "trans" or even "queer." While these modern terms may seem to fit certain historic individuals, these individuals would not have thought of themselves as such, and it would not be a part of their lived experience. To apply the modern identities of queerness to history is to erase the lives and experiences of queer people in history, and care must always be taken to understand queer history within the context of its time.

When looking at queer history online, there is a *lot* of misinformation and misidentification out there simply because people are eager to apply modern queerness to history, often in places where it doesn't belong.

A lot of old photos get misidentified as gay because they show two people of the same sex showing some level of physical affection towards each other. Okay, I'll admit that the open-mouth kissing photobooth pictures are probably actually gay, but an old picture of two men or two women holding hands or with their arms around each other, or even kissing on the cheek, were common shows of platonic affection.

I hate to break everyone's gay little hearts, but without explicit documentation saying so, assuming that these couples are all gay is putting modern queer identity in places where it simply didn't exist. The women in the final picture are sisters. The "not married" boys are bachelors interested in marrying women.

In the silent film Wings, the emotional climax of the film comes in the form of a kiss exchanged between the characters played by Jack Powell and David Armstrong. It often gets attributed as the first gay kiss in cinema history, even on the fucking YouTube clip I found:

Except it isn't gay. The two men spend the whole film fighting over who gets to be Clara Bow's boyfriend. When Richard Arlen's character is fatally wounded, his dear friend rushes to his side and kisses him goodbye, because in the 1920s, that was considered the ultimate show of friendship. The movie ends with Jack Powell falling in love with Clara Bow.

Similarly, a kiss shared between Lillian and Dorothy Gish in the 1921 movie Orphans of the Storm often gets attributed as being queer, but it wasn't.

They were sisters playing sisters. None of this was considered unusual.

Pooh-poohing on all of these images that so many people on the internet breathlessly and joyously laud as proud gay history isn't fun. It makes me feel like I'm fucking Ben Shapiro. But if misinformation is allowed to flourish, it allows people like Ben Shapiro to come in and make the argument that queerness is a modern invention and queer people didn't exist in the past.

Everyone loves to see queerness represented in history, but the fact is that none of the stuff in this post would have been seen as explicitly gay and thus shouldn't be called gay today. If we are to understand queer history in its fullness and richness, it is absolutely crucial that we get it right. We owe it to our queer ancestors to recognize, honor, and not embellish the actual lives they lived.

This is a great explanation of something I have tried to convey over the years in this blog and the reason it takes me so long to post. I research a lot to try to confirm the nature and identities involved in a relationship before posting!

he is like a worm that has crawled into my brain and taking over slowly...... this is only the beginning

HAPPY TRANS VISIBILITY DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

always remember that YOUR NOT ALONE and DONT.GIVE.UP. ik that things are hard for us rn but we have to stay alive so we can prove those biggots that THEY CANT ERASE US AND THEY NEVER WILL. and like our boys said gay is not a synonym for shitty !

-luke, ur transmasc agender fren :D

hi, im aech. my main is @artsyaech and this is my one billionth sideblog (that is definitely not repurposed, dw about that)

my pronouns are xae/xaer and it/its.

the “mcr as [insert thing]” trend is so delightful to me that i had to make my own. some that i particularly enjoy are @mcrasflags , @mcr-as-album-covers and @salamander-mcr as they also play into interests of mine >:)

as the url and title suggest, this is my chemical romance as my little ponies. generations 1-4 only (as those are my areas of interest and expertise)

i think this blog will be toy-centric, although occasional friendship is magic background ponies might pop up.

two of my special interests in one? let’s go

requests are open, but please keep in mind that i would love to get more than just g4-related requests. (i am very normal about g1-3, trust me)

icon credit - i made a slight edit (seems to be the original uploader, despite pinterest’s rep for reuploads)

another day, another sideblog

check it out im excited for this one

bullets gee in the bullets colors 🖤

bullets-era shitty bleached mohawk Frank makes me want to eat glass

BRAID </3