No way, they were gay? : hidden lives and secret loves /

"History was crafted by the people who recorded it. And sometimes, those historians were biased against, didn't see, or couldn't even imagine anyone different from themselves. That means that history has often left out the stories of LGBTQIA+ people: men who loved men, women who loved...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wind, Lee (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis, MN : Zest Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, [2021]
Series:	Queer history project.
Subjects:	Gay people > Biography > Juvenile literature. Gay people > Identity > Juvenile literature. Gay people. Gay people > Identity. Personnes homosexuelles > Biographies > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse. Personnes homosexuelles > Identité > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. Gay people Gay people and lesbians > Biography > Juvenile literature. Gay people and lesbians > Identity > Juvenile literature. Gay people and lesbians. Biography Biographies Juvenile works Biographies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Hidden history ; Making choices ; Good stuff to know before you dive in
Men Who Loved Men. What's ahead : Tchaikovsky and the men of Swan Lake ; William Shakespeare ; President Abraham Lincoln ; Mahatma Gandhi ; Bayard Rustin
Women Who Loved Women. What's ahead : Freda du Faur and the mountain she named for the woman she loved ; Sappho ; Queen Anne ; Eleanor Roosevelt ; M'e Mpho Nthunya
People Who Lived Outside Gender Boundaries. What's ahead : the Chevalier d'Éon and Mademoiselle de Beaumont were the same person ; Pharaoh Hatshepsut ; Catalina de Erauso, the lieutenant nun ; We'wha ; Christine Jorgensen
Conclusion: It's not about the numbers, it's about a safe space ; The history of the rainbow flag that brought it all together.