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ab. 1436 Paolo Uccello - Adoration of the Child with saints Hieronymus, Magdalena and Julian

Joan of Arc at the Coronation of King Charles VII in Reims Cathedral

Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)

Date: 1854

Medium: Oil on canvas

blinding light attack

full-page illustration from a manuscript of konrad kyeser's bellifortis, alsace, c. 1460

Belgium, probably in Tournai, ca. 1345-1350

Manuscript illumination depicting a lesbian couple kissing and a gay male couple embracing from the Moralized Bible of Vienna (1220s).

Same-sex relations being a modern invention is obviously ridiculous (I suppose a bad faith interpretation of how recent the labelling of sexuality is if I'm being charitable, outright stupidity due to being poorly informed if not). What we in the modern period call homosexuals have always existed. In fact 15th century Florence set up two offices, the office of honesty (1403) and the office of the night (1432) in order to combat the rampant same-sex relations in the city, to the point that "florentzen" became a slang term for same sex relations in 15th century Germany.

Figures like Richard Puller von Hohenburg, a swiss nobleman, prove that (obviously) same-sex relations were not limited to Florence. However, the lack of court records regarding it make it hard to know the extent of these relations compared to Florence.

Florence and England also have evidence in the 14th century of what we in the modern period would consider trans individuals, such as Rolandina Ronchaia from the former and Eleanor Rykener from the latter. Both of them were sex workers who presented as women in their day to day lives. To remove these real experiences which hardly get a chance to make themselves heard by calling it a "modern agenda" is bad history.

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