The great hunt for the world's first LGBTQ archive

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Them on Instagram: "The North Hertfordshire Museum in southeast England will use she/her pronouns and the term “transgender woman” when discussing Elagabulus, a Roman emperor who was born in present-day Syria and ruled from 218 to 222 CE before being murdered. The Roman emperor’s identity has been the source of historical debate for decades. “We try to be sensitive to identifying pronouns for people in the past, as we are for people in the present. It is only polite and respectful,” Keith Hoskins, executive member for arts on the North Herts Council, told The Telegraph. “We know the Elagabalus identified as a woman and was explicit about which pronouns to use, which shows that pronouns are not a new thing.” Read more at the link in our bio."
In 1600s France, This Sword-Fighting Opera Singer Burnt Down a Convent to Rescue Her Gay Lover
proof there’s always someone out there for you
Samsung Princess Married Her Bodyguard - Only For Him To Cheat, Abuse, and Sue Her For $1 Billion
Always Bet on Black (Power)
This is the story of why I walked from a tenured academic position at UQ and from the race discrimination case I had against them. It’s also a story of how I won. https://twitter.com/drcwatego/status/1437619915792347139
The Favourite Patient | Hazlitt
The Fiction of the Color Line
Rockstar programmer: Rivers Cuomo finds meaning in coding | TechCrunch
Rivers Cuomo got into coding during the pandemic by taking the online CS50 class, and now spends “70%” of his time coding
Some Guy Bought the Flatiron Building and Didn't Pay for It - Hell Gate
A man named Jacob Garlick bought the Flatiron Building at a public auction last week. This week he just… didn’t make the downpayment for it. This situation is the funniest thing in the world to me right now. Jacob why did you do that!!!!!
The Life of Jenny Marx
"This Valentine’s Day, the life of Jenny Marx reminds us of the love it takes to be a revolutionary socialist."
met a 40+ lady at the bar who’d just divorced her husband bc he’d become a christian homophobe, she made out w me and invited me and my tboy friend to her place where she fed us blow and beer until 8am which is suchhhh a good way to deal w ur divorce. ur husband woulda hated this
met a 40+ lady at the bar who’d just divorced her husband bc he’d become a christian homophobe, she made out w me and invited me and my tboy friend to her place where she fed us blow and beer until 8am which is suchhhh a good way to deal w ur divorce. ur husband woulda hated this
So obsessed with the chaos of this rooftop party in Brooklyn
The Impossibility of Reporting the Story of Gaza
Forget Mulan: meet Khutulun, unbeaten Mongolian wrestling princess
The Story Of Hachikō, The Japanese Dog Who Waited For His Owner For Ten Years
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The rare blue the Maya invented
Millennials aren’t getting more rightwing with age. I suspect I know why | Arwa Mahdawi
"Millennials have been royally screwed by an inequitable economic system and a runaway climate crisis. Only an idiot with loads of money would be happy with the way things are."
The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City
War in Translation: Giving Voice to the Women of Syria
Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved?
The Wound of Multilingualism: On Surrendering the Languages of Home
about speaking in other languages to separate from trauma experienced in the mother tongue