Someone will remember us

I really like that this is the direction pro wrestlers are going with their pr, as opposed to classic pro wrestling from the 80s whose whole personas were like macho xenophobic whackness

This is vintage and I am gay so this goes on my lgbtq history blog

@someonewillrememberus

how could you not link it

Hey i love Christina as much as the next guy but the ask isn’t 100% factually correct. (Please listen to my podcast episode about them)

“If the amount of happiness, immediate or ultimate, is increased by any costume, it is right to wear it.”

I encourage everyone to read this. First hand accounts of LGBT history from inside the community are long and few between on this site, and even though I’m young, I’m seeing more and more people get increasingly–well batshit–ideas as to what the gay community looked like and dealt with back then. And not only “inclusionists/anti-gay pro-ace discourses” either.

i wonder how many historic trans men we’ve lost to “this WOMAN went by a man’s name, wore men’s clothes, took the job of a man, lived as a man… GIRL POWER!”

this isn’t a “pushing my identity on historic people” thing, it’s the fact that every single time i or another person brings up the possibility of someone like us in history, we’re immediately shut down, told that we didn’t “exist yet”, given a billion different reasons why we aren’t ALLOWED to see these people as reflective of us and our struggles and experiences - i get that we didn’t have the vocabulary back then but for so many of you the IDEA that someone who went to the same stretches that we do today to separate from their dead selves and identify similar to the way trans people do is too “far out there” and “disrespectful” to them somehow. they’re dead. we’re alive. we’re trying to connect the pieces. go get your kicks out of isolating us from history somewhere else, away from me.

same with the musician billy tipton, who hid his trans status from his wife and children his whole life, and whose son didn’t know his father was trans until billy was dead. he told his wife that his binding was necessary because he had been in an automobile accident before they met, never disclosing his trans status to her. the number of historians that refer to him by his deadname and call him an “actress” make me feel sick. he was a stealth trans man around everyone but his parents, and it hurts trans men everywhere to call trans men in history “lesbians”.

don’t forget dr james barry who scholars still keep referring to as a a woman who presented as a man in order to pursue a career as a surgeon, despite himself always calling himself a gentleman and using he pronouns. There are even claims of him being “forced” to present as male by his relatives which there are no historical evidence of….

no don´t forget him! I can´t find any sources which is why he´s not on my list of subjects i want to cover on the podcast and i am so bitter about it! there´s the book with the awful title “a woman ahead f her time” and i won´t touch it tbh

i wonder how many historic trans men we’ve lost to “this WOMAN went by a man’s name, wore men’s clothes, took the job of a man, lived as a man… GIRL POWER!”

this isn’t a “pushing my identity on historic people” thing, it’s the fact that every single time i or another person brings up the possibility of someone like us in history, we’re immediately shut down, told that we didn’t “exist yet”, given a billion different reasons why we aren’t ALLOWED to see these people as reflective of us and our struggles and experiences - i get that we didn’t have the vocabulary back then but for so many of you the IDEA that someone who went to the same stretches that we do today to separate from their dead selves and identify similar to the way trans people do is too “far out there” and “disrespectful” to them somehow. they’re dead. we’re alive. we’re trying to connect the pieces. go get your kicks out of isolating us from history somewhere else, away from me.

same with the musician billy tipton, who hid his trans status from his wife and children his whole life, and whose son didn’t know his father was trans until billy was dead. he told his wife that his binding was necessary because he had been in an automobile accident before they met, never disclosing his trans status to her. the number of historians that refer to him by his deadname and call him an “actress” make me feel sick. he was a stealth trans man around everyone but his parents, and it hurts trans men everywhere to call trans men in history “lesbians”.