If you'd like to know more about Harvey, check out our podcast episode! queerasfact.podbean.com/e/harvey-milk/ It's an old one, but it was very moving and emotional recording for us, and one we love to share.

Aware that he was at risk of assassination, Harvey had recorded a tape to be played in the event of his death, in which he stated, “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.”

We made a podcast about Fiore if you'd like to learn more! queerasfact.podbean.com/e/fiore-de-h... (6/6)

"...I had read some wonderful books, from prehistory to the present time, explaining how this kind of human being – the third sex – could be really quite good and happy. So I decided to be that." (5/6)

But Fiore felt uncomfortable with the changes the hormones caused, ultimately deciding to live proudly as an intersex person, inspired by the history of others who had gone before her. (4/6)

When Fiore’s body started to masculinise during puberty, she saw a doctor, who asked what sex she would like to be.
She made the decision to start taking testosterone, telling her doctor she would like to be a man. (3/6)

Fiore was assigned female at birth, but from a young age, had complex feelings about her gender, saying "I prefer[ed] to borrow my brother’s shorts – they were far too big, even with my father’s old belt – and I used to walk around like that, pretending to do pipi like him." (2/6)

We were lucky enough to interview Luciella about her work earlier this year! queerasfact.podbean.com/e/asexual-an...

I admit I (Alice) was dubious when Jasmine told me before recording that she was going to pitch the idea of Genly as a trans woman, but I have come around! It's such a rich book that there's so much with regard to Genly's backstory and gender that Le Guin only gives us a glimpse of.

We had an amazing time this week unpacking the queer themes of this novel - check out our podcast if you want to hear our thoughts! queerasfact.podbean.com/e/the-left-h...

In 1999 Ruth Ellis becomes known as the USA’s oldest out lesbian, as she approaches her 100th birthday. Born in 1899, Ruth had been out since she was a teenager in the 1910s.
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Having met and fallen in love in Ravensbrück concentration camp during WWII, Nadine Hwang and Nellie Mousset-Vos leave Europe behind in the late 1940s to start a new life in Caracas, Venezuela, living together for over 20 years.
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In the early 20th century, Australian poet Lesbia Harford writes: “Would that I were Sappho, | Greece my land, not this! | There the noblest women, | When they loved, would kiss.”
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From the 18th to the early 20th century groups of women in Guangdong, China, eschew heterosexual marriage in favour of forming Golden Orchid Societies, sisterhoods which focus on mutual social and financial support, and can include same-gender marriages.
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In the 17th century, Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz writes love poetry to other women, including one which reads “Your being a woman … cannot pose the slightest hindrance to my love, for you know that our souls have no gender…”
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The Encyclopedia of Pleasure, written in 10th century Baghdad, tells the story of Hind and al-Zarqa', said to have been the first women to have lesbian sex. Their love is described as a model for poets.
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In 203 CE, Saints Felicity and Perpetua are martyred side-by-side. They go on to become a symbol for queer Christians, known as the patron saints of same-sex couples.
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