You may forget.
But let me tell you this:
someone
in some future time
will think of us…
--Sappho of Lesbos
(612--565 BCE)
(612--565 BCE)
Welcome.
This is a class project for Introduction to Queer Theory at Salt Lake Community College. Every semester, the students are asked to do research on the Internet and then upload it here.
We are consciously "queering" history here--not all of these people may have considered themselves queer, or even out of the ordinary for their sexuality or the way they expressed it. After all, the words "heterosexuality" and "homosexuality" were not even invented until the late 1890's. But ever since then, historians have gone out of their way to de-queer history, sometimes knowingly removing all references to the variety of ways humans have always expressed love to each other. We therefore claim the same right--to assume that queer people have always existed, just as many historians claim the right to assume that heterosexuality has always been hegemonic (universal and unquestioned) throughout history. We beg to differ. They were here, they were queer, get used to it.
These lists are organized by the birth year of each individual. Each of these entries are backed up by Internet research, though we have not attached a link for everything listed here (maintaining those links would not be possible), but perhaps this will lead the readers to make an Internet search of their own. Most of the pictures get bigger if you click on them. Enjoy!
We are consciously "queering" history here--not all of these people may have considered themselves queer, or even out of the ordinary for their sexuality or the way they expressed it. After all, the words "heterosexuality" and "homosexuality" were not even invented until the late 1890's. But ever since then, historians have gone out of their way to de-queer history, sometimes knowingly removing all references to the variety of ways humans have always expressed love to each other. We therefore claim the same right--to assume that queer people have always existed, just as many historians claim the right to assume that heterosexuality has always been hegemonic (universal and unquestioned) throughout history. We beg to differ. They were here, they were queer, get used to it.
These lists are organized by the birth year of each individual. Each of these entries are backed up by Internet research, though we have not attached a link for everything listed here (maintaining those links would not be possible), but perhaps this will lead the readers to make an Internet search of their own. Most of the pictures get bigger if you click on them. Enjoy!