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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈

@andreamariana89.bsky.social

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Aroace, Historical Fiction author, Queer History researcher/blogger 🌈 rep: Tricia Lawrence at Aevitas Creative Management. #QueerPit Board 2025 🏳️‍🌈

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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When you think of places to look for 🌈Queer History🌈 Gospel music probably isn't the first thing that pops in your head 🤔 Which is why I find the story of "Little Axe" Broadnax to be a fascinating piece of Black trans+ history. #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-black-tr...

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A Black Trans Gospel Legend

The unlikely story of a transgender man and fixture of the midcentury Gospel scene

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

📢 Authors, writers, and especially readers!!! I need your input pretty please 🙏 If you had these two 🌈 HistFic manuscripts ready to publish…which would YOU publish first? Or, which one are you most excited to read? Poll below ⬇️ #BookSky #LGBTQIA andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

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A Tale of Two (Queer) Novel Ideas

Which of these would you read? No, actually, I need to know.

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This Wednesday kicks off Bisexual Awareness Week! 🩷💜💙🌈 So of course, my latest Sub$tack discusses bisexual historical icons - from the Iron Age to the Jazz Age! And much love to all my bi friends this week and always 😍😘 #LGBTQIA #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/bisexual-b...

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Bisexual Baddies in History

Remembering some fabulous members of the B Team for Bisexual Awareness Week

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Music history buffs!!! 🎶🎵 This week's 🌈 Queer History 🌈 tale is for you... My latest Sub$tack considers the castrati singers of the Baroque era, and what their superstar lives can tell us about perspectives on gender and identity in history 🎭 andreamariana.substack.com/p/anything-f...

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Anything for Art? The Queer World of the Castrati

What do these lost voices of opera tell us about queer identity in history?

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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Why are global mythologies so very queer, and does that matter for Queer History? 🕊🌟🌈 This week, I explore why queer themes are so prevalent in myth and how that presence points to a vast, global queer narrative of history. #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/rainbow-ta...

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Rainbow Tales: Why Mythology Is So Very Queer

...and why that matters for Queer History!

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As a girl who grew up in East Tennessee, this hurts like hell 😥 Dolly gave so much to millions of people throughout the country, and did so with a genuine love and compassion for the vulnerable that our society desperately needs more of. Rest in peace 🦋🌈🦋🌈🦋🌈🦋

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What do you do, as an author, when you feel like you've hit a roadblock? 🚧🚫 This is one of the most vulnerable articles I've written: my journey in writing queer 🌈 Historical Fiction, and the "now what?" Advice welcome! 🙏 andreamariana.substack.com/p/explain-yo...

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Explain Yourself: Writing My Ace Characters

...and why I’m never walking away from my darlings

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the wild things about queer history research is falling headfirst down rabbit holes you never saw coming...🐇🕳 Like I was just dipping my toe into some research on ONE possibly transgender early Christian saint and like there's apparently DOZENS of them 🙃 LFG I guess?

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Nyan Cat Rainbow Flight

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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey #WritingCommunity friends! 👋 Yours truly needs some advice/insights 🙃 📚 Specifically - I'm hoping to talk to independent authors who currently have published books out there. Bonus points for anyone in my genre (HistFic) but all welcome 🥰 #BookSky #Authors

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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A gay wedding...in Renaissance Italy? 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇹🤔 This week, I discuss how an attempted Roman gay wedding in 1578 became infamous in Queer History... #LGBTQIA #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-gay-rena...

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A Gay Renaissance Wedding

How one of the first recorded "gay marriages" happened in 16th century Rome

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you've been to Florence, you probably toured its Renaissance sites 🇮🇹🎨 But you may not know that in that period, the city became a literal byword for gay liaisons 👀 In this week's Queer History Sub$tack, I explore Florence's scandalous reputation... andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-italia...

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The "Italian Vice": Queer Words in History

How one Renaissance city became a byword for gay liaisons

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's a Boy? 👶 This week, my Queer History Sub$tack considers a famous myth from the Roman Empire - and its status as a transmasculine tale from antiquity ⚧️ Never heard of Iphis & Ianthe? More below! ⬇️ #BookSky #History #LGBTQIA andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-queer-ro...

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A Queer Roman Romance: Iphis and Ianthe

Did Ovid tell the story of a mythological gender transition?

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Is this "history's first known gay couple?" 🧐👬🔍 What does a millennia-old Egyptian tomb tell us about queer history or rather, how we go about "queering" history? My latest Queer History post below! ⬇️🌈📚 #LGBTQIA #BookSky andreamariana.substack.com/p/historys-f...

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History's First Gay Couple?

How an Egyptian tomb ignited a queer history firestorm

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I keep a spreadsheet of all the Queer History 🌈📚 topics I want to write about. It grows. And grows. ...which is weirdly depressing because there is just SO MUCH and I never have enough time or energy and I want to share more and more content but damn 🙃 Anyway that's my rant for today.

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Excel Back To College Pixel Art

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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

So thanks to all the Odyssey 💿🐎 (emphasis on the 🐎 lol), we're all remembering that Greek warrior culture was pretty, um, rainbow colored 🌈⚔️ But Samurai culture was similar - and 🌈 affairs could have deadly outcomes 👀 ⬇️ #BookSky #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA andreamariana.substack.com/p/shoguns-in...

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Shoguns in Love: Infamous Gay Affairs Among the Samurai

Queer love among samurai was pervasive - and could be deadly

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This week's Queer History 🌈📚 is a bit more edgy...⚔️ Were gay relationships common among the samurai? 👀 This week's Part 1 post dives into Japan's unique queer stories of the past. #BookSky #LGBT #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/gay-samura...

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Gay Samurai? Queer Japanese History, Pt. I

Relationships among these infamous warriors raise as many questions as answers.

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🇺🇸🌈 A special July 4th Queer History story! 🌈🇺🇸 Was a hot-headed German hero of the American Revolution also one of the USA's first LGBT+ icons? 👀 Let's talk about the raging, swearing, indefatigable Baron von Steuben ⚔️🎆🧨 #QueerHistory #BookSky #History andreamariana.com?p=1940

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Baron von Steuben: A Gay German in the American Revolution - Andrea Mariana

A hot-headed German general, who rebuilt the Continental Army by force of will, may have been one of the country's first LGBT+ icons.

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R. E. McManus @earthkids.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

13 GOING ON 30 x ANNA KARENINA Kitty is ready to make a series of compromises to find happiness, but when a magic meteorite launches her 10 years into the future, she has a chance to fix her life. 🚀 Space Age 💜 Chaotic Bi FMC 🌌 Space Walk Date 🧡 Friends to Lovers 🤷 Why Choose #QueerPit #A #SF #R

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/06/2026

"CENTRISTS UNITE!" It's 15 people. 5 of whom aren't even elected yet. All of them in districts trump won. Don't let corporate media - especially media owned by Bezos - convince you the party is somehow fractured by throngs of centrists pushing back. It's not. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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After wins by democratic socialists, centrist Democrats unite to push back

Thirteen Democratic House members and candidates announced their support for an initiative that commits them to centrist principles.

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

With the 250th anniversary of American Independence this week (despite presently awful management 😖) my Queer History Substack considers something more cheerful: Queer American icons!!! 🌈 🇺🇸 Read about some of my personal favorites below ⬇️ #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/born-in-th...

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hey folks! If you are participating in #QueerPit this year, notes and updates below for Wednesday's event.

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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

What's in a name - or a label? 👀 One of the hardest aspects of writing about Queer History 🌈 is wrestling with identity, labels and language across time and space. But we should still write the canon of queer history regardless. #BookSky #LGBTQIA andreamariana.substack.com/p/you-cant-s...

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Did an excavation in 1880 yield the remains of a fabled army of warrior-lovers? 👀❤️ Part 2 of my Queer History series on the Sacred Band of Thebes! ⚔️🌈 #LGBTQIA #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-sacred...

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The Sacred Band, Pt. II: Legends of Love

How the courage of these queer warrior-lovers immortalized them across millennia

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It's the 1st Sunday of Pride 🌈 and my Queer History Substack returns this week with one of my **favorite** ancient stories! Was the "sacred band" of gay warrior-lovers real? Who were they, and who came up with this idea anyway? 😅 #LGBTQIA #BookSky andreamariana.substack.com/p/queer-love...

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(Queer) Love and War: The Sacred Band of Thebes

An infamous band of brothers - or perhaps lovers?

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Happy first Friday of #Pride!! 🌈🥰 Why not roll into the weekend with some ancient Queer History? My latest blogpost considers the "First Gay Couple" found in an Old Kingdom Egyptian tomb - and what they can tell us about "queering history" #BookSky #LGBTQIA #QueerHistory andreamariana.com?p=1927

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The Curious Case of the Manicurists - Andrea Mariana

How did a strange tomb from Egypt's Old Kingdom spark a fierce debate on "queering" history, and what can its occupants tell us today?

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride y'all! We've always been here; always will be. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🤍 #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

🔥 🌈 Hot off the Substack 🌈🔥 I won't lie...this was a tough piece, but I needed to get some of this off my chest. My reflection for Pride: placing this troubled moment in its queer historical context, and how our history shapes how we move forward ➡️ andreamariana.substack.com/p/past-as-pr...

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Past as Present: Pride in 2026

The horrors persist - but so do we. Celebrating, commemorating, and continuing the struggle.

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Lucy Anderson's story of defiance, set against the repression of the Lavender Scare, has always amazed me. This week's Queer History 🏳️‍🌈 Substack shares the second part of her fascinating story ⬇️ #QueerHistory #BookSky #LGBT andreamariana.substack.com/p/what-i-am-...

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QueerPit @queerpit.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

📣 🌈 Literary Agents and Industry Professionals!!! 📣🌈 #QueerPit is just seven weeks away! 😍 We are reaching out to agents and industry professionals starting next week, so look for QueerPit in your inbox 📥 If you would like to be added to our list, please DM us!

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You Got Mail! Cute Penguin Notification

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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

✨️ 🌈 Brand new Queer History ✨️ 🌈 This week's post is Part 1 of the story of Lucy Hicks Anderson - a WWII era Black transgender icon and SoCal legend. ⬇️ Check it out! #QueerHistory #BookSky #LGBT andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-black-tr...

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🌈 Brand new Queer History 🌈 hot off the Sub$tack for another Sapphic Sunday 🥰 What was a "tribade" and why is this 16th century word part of lesbian history? ⬇️ 🧡🩷🤍 andreamariana.substack.com/p/tribade-qu...

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"Tribade": Queer Words in History

What did "tribade" mean? Would you have been a tribade?

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

🚨 Brand new Queer History! 🌈🚨 This week, my Sub$tack wraps up my Gay Versailles series. Spicy queer drama in the Rococo age at Europe's most infamous palace. Check it out! ⬇️ andreamariana.substack.com/p/gay-versai...

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Gay Versailles, Part 2

"Fraternities", queer generals, secret garden trysts...oh my!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

BREAKING: A Virginia court has REJECTED the Republican lawsuit challenging the legislature’s authority to alter the 2021 congressional map. The new map could give Democrats up to four more seats in Congress.

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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Happy Lesbian Day of Visibility!!! 🧡🩷🤍 What better time to showcase some of history's most fascinating, inspiring, and iconic lesbians and their stories? 🥰⬇️ #QueerHistory #BookSky #LesbianDayofVisibility andreamariana.substack.com/p/crowns-of-...

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Crowns of Violets: Lesbian Love In History

Showcasing lesbians in queer history on Lesbian Visibility Day

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Every now and then when I read novels with allo characters written by allo authors I'm like...damn I really am ace, aren't I? Cause the way y'all experience attraction is WILD to me...like, Error 404 level

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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If you saw Olivia Rodrigo's new music video, you know that the French royal palace of Versailles is ✨️dazzling!✨️ But the court of the "Sun King" Louis XIV had plenty of "rainbows" too 🌈 Read more about the #QueerHistory of Versailles below ⬇️ #LGBTQIA andreamariana.substack.com/p/gay-versai...

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Gay Versailles, Part 1

Did the "Sun King" rule over a rainbow court?

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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It's my latest Rainbow Bouquet 💐 🌈 Substack note! This week, I discuss how the pansy flower became an iconic symbol associated with the rise of drag performances in the US 💃✨️ Read more below ⬇️ #LGBT #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-pansy-...

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"The Pansy Craze": A Rainbow Bouquet, Part 5

How did pansies become an iconic symbol of drag culture?

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Tomorrow is International Asexuality Day! 🤍🖤💜 As your ✨️ local, friendly, neighborhood aroace ✨️ my latest Queer History Substack considers how "asexuality" came to be 😉 Check it out ⬇️ There's cake! 🧁#LGBTQIA #BookSky #History andreamariana.substack.com/p/never-invi...

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Laura-Louise Slattery @redheadpinupreader.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

For any writer who needs to hear this: You don't have to write a bestselling literary masterpiece 📚💸 Write the book you wish existed 🌸✨

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

With Trans Day of Visibility on Tuesday, my ✨️ Queer History Substack ✨️ this week covers one of my favorite research topics: goddesses of the trans+ community! 👸🧜🏼‍♀️💫 You can read about a few of these fascinating deities below ⬇️ #QueerHistory #BookSky andreamariana.substack.com/p/trans-godd...

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Did a former FLOTUS run away to Italy with her girlfriend? 👭👀 It's my latest Queer History 🌈 Substack - Part 2 of Rose Cleveland's fascinating story. Read it below ⬇️ andreamariana.substack.com/p/together-i...

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

So there is plenty of speculation about historical gay US Presidents...but what about a lesbian First Lady? 👀👭🇺🇸 My latest Substack this week features Rose Cleveland 🌹a 19th Century FLOTUS - with a girlfriend! #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-lesbia...

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The Lesbian First Lady: Rose Cleveland, Pt. 1

A sapphic chapter from the White House's queer history...

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

15 asexual and aromantic paranormal stories have been put together for this anthology. We wanna bring it to life and for that we need your help! If you like cryptids, demons, werewolves, ghosts and so much more, you know what to do 🌎📚💙

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy International Women's Day - especially to the bisexual baddies out there! 🩷💜💙 Did you know there is a flower 🌼 just for you all? My latest Queer History post considers the Trillium flower and its ties to the bi community ⬇️ #QueerHistory #BookSky andreamariana.substack.com/p/bisexual-f...

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Bisexual Flowers? A Rainbow Bouquet, Pt. 4

How did a humble flower become a bisexual symbol?

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Well, despite ***gestures at everything*** 😐 ...Today is the start of Women's History Month! 🩷 😁 My latest post explores some fabulous queer women in history to kick off March 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Read it below ⬇️ #BookSky #QueerHistory #History andreamariana.substack.com/p/celebratin...

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

As Black History Month comes to a close, I am delighted to share the story of a famous Black lesbian activist - and a photo 📸 that changed history! 👀🌈 Read about Ernestine Eckstein in my ✨️ brand new ✨️ Queer History post below ⬇️ #amwriting #LGBT #QueerHistory #BookSky andreamariana.com?p=1899

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Ernestine Eckstein: The Face of a Movement - Andrea Mariana

Ernestine Eckstein, a Black lesbian, was one of the most influential and visible leaders of early American queer activism.

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

As Black History Month comes to a close this week, my final Substack for February features one of my favorite queer historical icons - the "Bronze Venus" Josephine Baker! ✨️💃✨️ Dancer, actress, spy and activist - you can read her story here ⬇️ #BookSky #LGBT andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-bisexu...

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AVEN @avenofficial.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Make sure to check out events happening this week. www.arospecweek.org/get-involved...

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Events – Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week

Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 @andreamariana89.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Happy Aromantic Week!!! 💚🖤🤍 My latest Substack covers the meaning of aromanticism, its microlabels, the importance of representation and much more! Check it out ⬇️ #BookSky #LGBTQIA #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/aromantics...

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Aromantics Assemble!

It's Aromantic Week - but what is Aromanticism?