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Love letters Hans Christian Anderson wrote to Edvard Collin contain elements that appeared in The Little Mermaid, which he was writing at the same time

Several people who knew James Dean have talked about his relationships with men 

Letters and poems allude to a romance between Emily Dickinson and at least two women 

Nikola Tesla was adverse to touch. He said he fell in love with one women but never touched her and didn’t want to get married 

Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender) 

Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the best-known activists who fought in the Stonewall riots

Florence Nightingale refused 4 marriage proposals and her letters and memoir suggest a love for women 

Leonardo da Vinci never married or fathered children, was once brought up on sodomy charges, and a sketch in one of his notebooks is 2 penises walking toward a hole labeled with the nickname of his apprentice 

Condivi said that Michelangelo often spoke exclusively of masculine love

Jane Austin never married and wrote about sharing a bed with women (Jane Austen At Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley)

Hatshepsut took the male title Pharaoh (instead of Queen Regent) and is depicted in art from the time the same way a male Pharaoh would have been

Donatello, renaissance artist, likely gay (Hey, let’s face it— 3/4s of the TMNT were gay). [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Louis XVI, king of France can be presumed asexual. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Baron Von Steuben, a gay man who helped train George Washington’s troops at Valley Forge. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Julius Caesar, a military leader and popular Roman politician who was also a bottom (I mean if he wasn’t a bottom, why else would he have gotten stabbed 23 times?). [source 1] [source 2] [source 3 — a note: this is just stating that the trouble wasn’t the gender of the other person, it was because [Caesar] was the bottom]

Albert Cashier, a trans man who served the Union in the American Civil War. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Elagabalus, a Roman ruler who was presumed to be transfeminine. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Sulla, another Roman general who was not straight. [source 1] [source 2]

Jean-Baptiste Lully, a ballet dancer, and composer close to Louis XIV. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Piotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky, a gay Russian composer. [source 1] [source 2]

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.

It governs more lives and more wealth than most nations. If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.

What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.

If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American."

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.