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Making Queer History for 8 Years
This month we hit 8 years of making queer history, and there is so much to be proud of. We have surpassed 200 articles, opened a public domain library, and are in the process of polishing all of our old articles. What is very clear is that this project has come so far!
With two new articles being written each month, a public domain piece found and added to our accessible collection, polls, a discord, and more work consistently in progress, there is a lot to this community.
If you want to become a part of the Making Queer History community this year and make queer history a part of your life, there are so many options:
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While becoming a patron is what has the most impact on our work, every part of our community is vital and important, and the only reason we have gotten so far is because of you. To keep this project going, check the links above, and thank you for a fantastic 8 years.
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The goal for 2024 is to get Making Queer History to a financially sustainable place. Making Queer History has been around since 2015 and if you want to be a part of Making Queer History, click here.
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The Tea Dragon Society Box Set
K. O'Neill
The Tea Dragon Society After discovering a lost tea dragon in the marketplace, Greta learns about the dying art form of tea dragon caretaking from the kind tea shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. As she befriends them and their shy ward, Minette, Greta sees how the craft enriches their lives--and eventually her own.
The Tea Dragon Festival Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real dragon turns out to be a different matter entirely! Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village, but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. With the aid of Rinn's adventuring uncle Erik and his partner Hesekiel, they investigate the mystery of his enchanted sleep... But Rinn's real challenge is to help Aedhan come to terms with feeling that he cannot get back the time he has lost.
The Tea Dragon Tapestry Join Greta and Minette once more for the heartwarming conclusion of the award-winning Tea Dragon series! Over a year since being entrusted with Ginseng's care, Greta still can't chase away the cloud of mourning that hangs over the timid Tea Dragon. Meanwhile, Minette receives a surprise package from the monastery where she was once training to be a prophetess. Told with the same care and charm as the previous installments of the Tea Dragon series, The Tea Dragon Tapestry welcomes old friends and new into a heartfelt story of purpose, love, and growth.
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Some Good Queer History News
I just thought I would share this email exchange:
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Drag Show Programs
Spanning the globe, these drag show programs have been collected from clubs and revues in major cities including Paris, New Orleans, San Francisco, and London. The oldest of these depict female impersonators and clubs from the 1940s. Though a few of the programs are from one-time events, many of them are part of a series of recurring drag shows at venues such as Club 82, Finocchio’s, Club My O My, Le Carrousel, Madame Arthur’s Nightclub, and the Wonder Club. This collection provides a closer look into the communities that formed within drag clubs, with many names appearing in multiple programs for various clubs.              
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makingqueerhistory · 8 hours
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We were interviewed by All About History to talk about queer women throughout history! Check it out!
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makingqueerhistory · 8 hours
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Queer history fact: In the middle of the 5th dynasty of Egypt, the tomb of two men who would become one of the most famous same-sex couples in ancient history was built. The tomb of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum was uncovered in 1964 and has been a fierce debate topic ever since. They have been said to be twins, lovers, brothers, and close friends. These two men and their relationship with each other became most controversial long after their deaths.
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This collection of postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing in Europe and the United States, 1900-1931, 1955 features copies of original postcards held by Cornell’s Human Sexuality Collection, part of Cornell Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
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Some Good Queer History News
I just thought I would share this email exchange:
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makingqueerhistory · 11 hours
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When you're young, instilled ideas can feel a lot like instincts. That's part of the reason it is so vital for queer youth to be connected to queer elders. The process of unlearning queerphobia is a lifelong journey, and it can't be taken alone. There have to be people who are challenging you to grow, people who can look at what you are doing and know the history behind the first response. Knowing even recent queer history provides so much context and can unveil closely held beliefs to be rooted in bigotry.
Intergenerational connections within the queer community are necessary and worth fighting to find.
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Growth comes through love.
"Part of The Comfort House Project: Stay as long as you like This room for Will and Harper-Hugo Darling is designed to be a place where resilience is not required.  I met Will and Harper-Hugo at our local tea shop (a place we now haunt nearly every Thursday evening). During the conversation/interview, I filled five pages of my sketchbook with notes while the two of them finished each other's sentences and guessed each other's answers. Will talked about horror as a genre that defribulates their emotions when they're receding into numbness. They talked about being a social chameleon and why that's exhausting. Harper-Hugo talked about the heaviness and importance of their writing job which is "to love and lose these people (queer folks) who have been excluded from history books". They say that some of their deepest comfort comes from feeling and honouring their own feelings.  In the room I created for them both to inhabit, the deep cozy maximalism and fantasy library vibes were very fun to play with. The walls are covered in portraits and artworks by queer historical figures as suggested by Harper-Hugo. The chandelier seems to be a swarm of fireflies maybe? A scaly "chameleon coat" is draped over a privacy screen, discarded from Will's shoulders. The big brass elevator doors in the middle are an homage to Tamora Pierce and her YA fantasy heroines. The book Will is reading to Harper-Hugo is "Wild Magic" from that author."
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Queer history fact: Frieda Belinfante, the first woman in Europe to be artistic director and conductor of an ongoing professional orchestral ensemble, joined the CKC resistance group around the beginning of WW2. CKC included other queer members, such as Willem Arondeus. In her interview with the Holocaust Museum, she claims that she was the one who pointed out that if they were going to forge documents, they also had to destroy the originals so no one caught on. This led to the destruction of the Amsterdam public registry on March 27, 1943.
As a woman, Belinfante herself was not allowed to go on that mission, so she only knew that her fellow group members were captured when her right-hand man didn’t show up to the meeting spot. She immediately abandoned her home and disguised herself as a man. It was only later that she learned the others of the group had been executed.
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Dear Senthuran
Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Their story weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, their precipitous path to success as a writer, and the turmoil of relationships on an emotional, romantic, and spiritual plane, culminating in a book that is as tender as it is brutal.
Electrifying and inspiring, animated by the same voracious intelligence that distinguishes their fiction, Dear Senthuran is a revelatory account of storytelling, self, and survival.
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Queer history fact: From 1938-1939, San Domino in Italy was designated an internal exile exclusively for queer people. What began as an attempt to exclude any men who didn’t fit the fascistic ideal of perfect masculinity, ended as a glimpse of the queer community in an impossible time. Equally a prison and a carved-out space where queer people connected in hostile circumstances, San Domino proves the past and continued resilience of the queer community.
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What is your favourite art inspired by queer history?
I cannot give one answer to this question, so I will share my top two!
First, this isn't inspired by any particular story in queer history, but it is a queer historical fiction that remains one of my favourite books of all time. It was such a tender yet painfully accurate portrayal of queer love as it has existed in different times and how it connects people throughout time and space.
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Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon
Next is this poem based on the ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, by Frank Bidart. What is specifically notable about this snippet of the poem that I found accidentally on Pinterest, is that Vaslav Nijinsky and his journals are a part of the history of the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Vaslav himself had a difficult time coming to terms with this diagnosis and his subsequent institutionalization, as his brother had a similar experience and watching it was very upsetting for Vaslav. In this poem, the separation between the sanity Vaslav craves and the mental illness he fears is guilt for the actions he takes that hurt people. So we find him in this moment in the snow after running away from his wife and child:
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The story of San Domino remains a tremendous one. The establishment and destruction of this community took a single year, but it represents something much larger: the resilience of the queer community and the subversion of the hatred that would strike them down. Persecuted by their own country, these queer people found a home in each other. They found safety and joy in people rather than physical spaces. Through all the adversity and horrific injustice levelled at the queer community, the queer community finds strength in solidarity. Generations of queer people have done it before, and the record of such stories will continue to inspire the community in this modern era. This moment of togetherness is a tradition that defines the queer community. That is the message we want to impart unto our readers as we continue; however dark the stories we share become, know that we have always built homes from prisons. Nothing has broken us yet, and nothing will.
Harper-Hugo Darling (via makingqueerhistory)
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There have undoubtedly been (and continue to be) many historians who have preserved and protected queer history, often at their own detriment. There is room to be grateful for them, as well as critical of the structures that impede and hide their work. Sharing uncritical praise of academia is just as bad as throwing it all under the bus, reality is nuanced and deserves to be represented as such.
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