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1934 letter written by Cyril Coeur de Leon to âMy Dear Billyâ
Well, Billy didn't destroy the letter as Coeur de Leon requested. But thanks to him, we do have this letter from 1934 from a smitten man who openly referred to himself as Queer and professed his love for Billy.
You can read more about this letter at the National Archives UK
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Researching LGBTQ+ history can be particularly difficult considering that much of the terminology we use today would not have been available to people in the past. Many archives appear to lack material that include the identifiers Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Trans, because these labels did not always exist. But as time progresses and our knowledge of LGBT history broadens, our language and terminology also change.
'Cyrilâs use of âQueerâ to describe his sexuality is surprising and arguably modern, for it was not until much later â towards the end of the 20th century and start of the 21st â that the term was used to describe gender or sexual fluidity. Other documents obtained in similar raids across London, held at The National Archives, further demonstrate the use of âQueerâ as a self-identifier within the community.'
crying in all the gay ways
hey can i just say real quick........ shoutout to trans people who want to pass. who want to look cis. who don't want to have 'bowling alley carpet gender' or anythjng like that and just want to look simply male, female, or androgynous.
gender freedom and a deep identity rooted in being trans can be freeing for some, but i think it's time we admit that that doesn't go for everyone. some people just want to feel standard compared to the world we live in and that does NOT make you a traitor or any less trans. you deserve to feel how you want.

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 The Queer Life of Cranogwen
âCranogwenâ (9 January 1839 - 27 June 1916), or Sarah Jane Rees, was born in Llangrannog, the daughter of Frances Rees and mariner John Rees. Unusually for the time, Cranogwen was educated at the local school along with her brothers, until the age of fifteen. Often regarded as most unusual about Cranogwenâs life is her experience as a sailor, having then joined her father on the sea, trading along the coast and sometimes to the mainland of Europe. It was however not uncommon for girls and women to accompany male members of their family to work. Sailors' wives and children did accompany them, though this was disallowed on Royal Navy ships in 1869. Some other female sailors who could now be regarded as queer, and some sailors now could be regarded as trans men. Cranogwen, however, returned to education after three years on the sea, to navigation schools in New Quay and London, and in 1859 set up her own in Llangrannog. Though there is evidence of criticism towards women running navigation schools, from churches and the âBlue Books,â there is no record of such criticism towards Cranogwen.
In 1865 Cranogwen won in the National Eisteddfod at Aberystwyth with âY Fodrwy Briodasolâ (The Wedding Ring), which expresses criticism of the expectation on women to marry through the viewpoints of four brides, including one suffering domestic abuse. She beat famous male poets such as Islwyn. Her bardic name was made up of the names of Saint Caranog, who Llangrannog was named for, and the nearby river Hawen. With continued success at Eisteddfodau, Caniadau Cranogwen was published in 1870 and Cranogwen spoke across Wales, and toured as a Methodist lay preacher, including two American tours.
In 1874, Fanny Rees, from Llangrannog, contracted tuberculosis and moved into Cranogwenâs family home to die her arms. Cranogwenâs grief at the tragic end of her first same-sex relationship is described in autobiographical writings, as are her poetry to women thought of as her most passionate writing, such as âFy Ffryndâ (âMy Friendâ). (There is also a passionate poem to her, by Buddug, which describes how she nearly worships and admires the âimmortalâ Cranogwen.) As Cranogwen continued to live with her parents, Jane Thomas lived next door, as her supportive and committed partner. When Cranogwenâs parents died, she sold the house and lived with Jane for the last twenty years of her life.
From 1878, Cranogwen was editor of Y Frythones - not the first magazine for Welsh women but the first edited by a woman - which had more proto-feminist and even queer messages than its predecessor, though still contained lessons on being a respectably middle class and religious woman. But within these lessons, Cranogwen promoted Welsh womenâs writing, ensuring Y Frythones was written for women by women, told her readers they did not all need to marry, like âthe woman here by our sideâ (Jane Thomas) and would give answers, in the âQuestions and Answersâ column, that can now be analysed as queer. In 1887, when a reader wrote in questioning short bob hairstyles on women, saying she could not tell whether those with these hairstyles were girls or boys, Cranogwen answered: âFirst of all, then, ask that person which he or she will be, a boy or a girl? Then proceed with your business.â When readers asked about women becoming preachers, like Cranogwen herself was, she concluded that, âGender difference is nothing in the world.â
Cranogwen was a sailor, teacher, poet, writer, editor, temperence activist and much more. Her legacy is a feminist legacy - 'Llety Cranogwen', a shelter for homeless women and girls was founded in the Rhondda by the South Wales Temperance Union and Cranogwen was one of the women who contributed to Welsh womenâs writing and education. She continues to be an inspiration, to the Welsh group âCywion Cranogwenâ and to modern Welsh magazines by and for Welsh women, such as âCodi Pais.â Her legacy is also a queer legacy, inspiring queer women and people, and Cranogwen was open about her relationships in her own lifetime (though as 'romantic friendships), which are now too often erased in the teachings about this âimmortalâ woman. Fanny Rees and Jane Thomas, who loved and supported Cranogwen, and the queer themes in poetry by and to Cranogwen, should now be permanently included in her history. Their histories should not be erased and neither should the significance of Cranogwen's legacy to LGBT+ people, and especially queer women.
Sources & further reading: - Cranogwen, Caniadau Cranogwen, & Cranogwen ed Y Frythones. - Jane Aaron, âGender Difference is Nothing,â Queer Wales, ed Huw Osborne & âDeveloping Womenâs Welsh-language Print Cultureâ Nineteenth Century Womenâs Writing in Wales. - Katie Gramich & Catherine Brennan ed Welsh Womenâs Poetry, 1460-2001: An Anthology. - Norena Shopland, Forbidden Lives: LGBT Stories of Wales. - Sian Rhiannon Williams, âY Frythones: Portread Cyfnodolion Merched y Bedwared Ganrif ar Bymtheg o Gymraeg yr Oes,â Llafur, IV, 1 (1984).
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