Gay confederate soldier

Queer Civil War buffs have been arguing for some time that the deafening silence around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Confederate and Union soldiers indicates proof of their very presence.

Put simply, the words homosexual, bisexual, gay, and queer were not available to Civil War soldiers to describe their eros. Union and Confederate soldiers did not think of a sexual world inhabited by straight and gay men, because that way of ordering the world had not yet been constructed.

Confederate and Union: The untold history of gay Civil War soldiers During the Civil War conventional gender roles and sexual behavior could not be strictly tethered to a heterosexual paradigm.

The History of Gay Civil War Soldiers, Did the Internet Make Dating Worse for Gay People?, and more LGBT news In other LGBT news Queer historians have been fighting to be seen in the history books.

Queer Civil War buffs have been arguing for some time that the deafening silence around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Confederate and Union soldiers indicates proof of their very presence.

Put simply, the words homosexual, bisexual, gay, and queer were not available to Civil War soldiers to describe their eros. Union and Confederate soldiers did not think of a sexual world inhabited by straight and gay men, because that way of ordering the world had not yet been constructed.

Confederate and Union: The untold history of gay Civil War soldiers During the Civil War conventional gender roles and sexual behavior could not be strictly tethered to a heterosexual paradigm.

The History of Gay Civil War Soldiers, Did the Internet Make Dating Worse for Gay People?, and more LGBT news In other LGBT news Queer historians have been fighting to be seen in the history books.