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Hello! It’s nice to meet you.
I’m Chrys (she/they), and when I get bored, I go look online through online catalogs of historical archives. In doing this, I’ve found some people who I do not think were straight and might not have been cisgender.
Do I know this for a fact?
No.
But mostly because they didn’t have the language to say “I’m gay” at that time. I don’t know that they would’ve if they were in the present, but for centuries straight historians have been assuming everyone in history is straight. I’m here to do the opposite.
Every story that I share in this collection, I believe, has some sort of queer element to it. I could be wrong, but I’m definitely not as wrong as people who still think England’s King James I was straight.
Is it voyeuristic of me to read through old journals of people who died before I was born? Probably. But these are history now. And specifically, they are history that probably isn’t going to be shared anywhere else.
They are stories that I think deserve to be told. So I’m going to attempt to tell them.
I’ll post the first one tomorrow! I’m just finishing up formatting it to post it online.
