beau--brummell replied to your post âAhahaha. It looks like the OP of that stupid âwhich historical gay...â
I did notice that your reply wasn't in the notes.....lol. See, OP didn't have to even 100% agree with your conclusion but it would've been nice if they'd at least listened to, you know, LGBTQ+ historians.
YES! Or, ya know, admitted that people had anything to say other than praise for their âincredible witâ.Â
Iâd argue that you donât even need to be a LGBTQ+ historian yourself to be aware of the fact that LGBTQ+ historians and LGBTQ+ history exist, and have been part of academic discourse at least since the 1980s.* And that itâs your job to point out that thatâs the case if you in any way take your work seriously.Â
I mean, Iâm not a person of colour and am very much aware of POC/minority historiansâ valuable and much-needed contributions to postcolonial theory/studies, and, e.g. global history. Itâs my job to listen to their perspectives and include them wherever possible.Â
Honestly, sometimes I think people want to stay ignorant, and that they want to actively silence voices that dare them to question their own black and white narratives.Â
(*replace by âliterary scholarsâ and/or âclassicistsâ, âarchaeologistsâ, âsociologistsâ or whatever other flavour of humanities subject you like. We all end up reading each otherâs works sooner or later, anyway.)Â
















