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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 15/07/2026

In honor of International Non-Binary People’s Day, let’s talk about a little-known figure in Norwegian history named Jens Andersson. youtu.be/iUT44CJRtSE

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Norwegian Nonbinary History: Jens Andersson | Yesterqueers #queerhistory

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 24/09/2025

Hermann Kallenbach was perhaps the single most important figure in Gandhi’s life during his time in South Africa. He has been described as Gandhi’s “white brother” and as his “soulmate,” but was their relationship purely platonic? youtu.be/sGEyHbcZNLM

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Was Gandhi Bisexual? | Yesterqueers #queerhistory

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 17/05/2025

Professor / Writer / Tattoo Artist / Kinsey Collaborator / Historian Samuel Steward did so much work under so many names that it took decades after his death to piece together the scope of his life. youtube.com/shorts/W8QaW...

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Samuel Steward | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 16/05/2025

Emma Stebbins, the artist behind NYC's iconic 'Angel of the Waters' sculpture, described herself as “a soft-shelled crab, forced by circumstances into hard-shelled positions.” youtu.be/7WlbhxLZhF0

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Emma Stebbins and 'Angel of the Waters' | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 24/04/2025

We've talked about keys, so now let's talk about the hanky code! #queerhistory #hankycode

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 23/04/2025

It's not about the carabiners, but about the keys clipped to them. Let's talk about the queer history of displaying keys! #queerhistory #lesbianhistory #carabiner

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 17/04/2025

For Day 16 of 30 Days of Queer Poets we're honoring one of the pioneers of the Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac. youtube.com/shorts/7H_Rg...

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30 Days of Queer Poets: JACK KEROUAC | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 14/04/2025

For Day 13 of 30 Days of Queer Poets we're celebrating Arab-American Heritage month by honoring arguably the most accomplished Arab-American writer of the 20th century: ETEL ADNAN. youtube.com/shorts/g0BfZ...

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30 Days of Queer Poets: ETEL ADNAN | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 11/04/2025

For Day 11 of 30 Days of Queer Poets we're celebrating a poet whose 2023 book "Falling Back in Love With Being Human" is required reading for queer people right now: KAI CHENG THOM ( @razorfemme.bsky.social ). youtube.com/shorts/ERl5W...

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30 Days of Queer Poets: KAI CHENG THOM | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 10/04/2025

Day 10 of 30 Days of Queer Poets celebrates the Pakistani-American writer and activist who was the first to publish a collection of gay poems in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan: IFTI NASIM. youtube.com/shorts/IZAHa...

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30 Days of Queer Poets: IFTI NASIM | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 09/04/2025

Day 9 of 30 Days of Queer Poets celebrates a poet whose work was not known while he was alive, but who has since been recognized as one of the most distinguished Greek poets of the 20th century: C.P. Cavafy. youtube.com/shorts/9vTK9...

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30 Days of Queer Poets: C.P. CAVAFY | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 08/04/2025

Don't you hate it when the towel attendants interrupt your fun at the bathhouse? For Day 8 of 30 Days of Queer Poets we're celebrating a hedonistic, bisexual poet from the Islamic Golden Age: ABU NUWAS. youtube.com/shorts/c_R81...

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30 Days of Queer Poets: ABU NUWAS | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 08/04/2025

Day 7 of 30 Days of Queer Poets falls on the first day of Deaf Queer Awareness Week, so today we're celebrating deaf queer poet RAYMOND LUCZAK (@raymondluczak.com). youtube.com/shorts/Wx0bv...

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30 Days of Queer Poets: RAYMOND LUCZAK | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 06/04/2025

Today we're celebrating Day 6 of 30 Days of Queer Poets and International Asexuality Day by honoring a poet for whom asexuality and aromanticism are recurring themes in their work: KELLY WEBER. youtube.com/shorts/sg8QJ...

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30 Days of Queer Poets: KELLY WEBER | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 05/04/2025

It's Day 5 of 30 Days of Queer Poets and today we're celebrating bisexual and bilingual poet, memoirist, translator, and immigration advocate MARCELO HERNANDEZ CASTILLO. Performance clip is from @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/gy-Mn...

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 05/04/2025

Day 4 of 30 Days of Queer Poets celebrates Korean-American poet, essayist, activist, and educator FRANNY CHOI. youtube.com/shorts/kxYD8...

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30 Days of Queer Poets: FRANNY CHOI | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 03/04/2025

For Day 3 of 30 Days of Queer Poets we're celebrating indigenous poet, screenwriter, and podcaster Tommy Pico. youtube.com/shorts/KJuu5...

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30 Days of Queer Poets: TOMMY PICO | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 02/04/2025

For Day 2 of 30 Days of Queer Poets we're celebrating Saeed Jones (@theferocity.bsky.social), whose most recent volume of poetry is essential reading for these times. youtube.com/shorts/gunhT...

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30 Days of Queer Poets: SAEED JONES | Yesterqueers #queerhistory

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 01/04/2025

We’ve made it to April and we all need some joy in our lives, so Amanda is celebrating National Poetry Month with 30 Days of Queer Poets! Day 1 is Colorado’s Poet Laureate, @andreagibson.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/q6PiO...

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30 Days of Queer Poets | Yesterqueers

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 26/03/2025

Lesbian war correspondent Evelyn Irons’ daring 40-year career spanned the globe from Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest to the jungles of Guatemala. youtu.be/iX3EhLrBRyw

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Evelyn Irons: The Lesbian War Correspondent Who Was First to Reach Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 05/03/2025

Amanda’s back at E3 Radio for Women’s History Month having conversations with Anna DeShawn about queer women who made history! The first episode is up today: Lesbian socialite and hero of the French Resistance Isabel Pell. youtu.be/rE5_jen4z20

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Meet Isabel Pell: Lesbian Socialite and Hero of the French Resistance

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 01/03/2025

Wrapping up Black History Month by honoring a brilliant visionary who changed the landscape of modern dance: Alvin Ailey. youtu.be/ZzL99Q5knkU?...

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ALVIN AILEY: Dancer, Choreographer, Visionary

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 22/02/2025

Award-winning journalist Gail Christian was KCET’s first News Director, and the only Black woman News Director in the country at the time. youtu.be/yz0_5kF7Mhk?...

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Gail Christian

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 14/02/2025

Let’s celebrate Valentine’s Day with a lesbian love letter that is almost 1,000 years old. youtube.com/shorts/EVvxc...

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The Tegernsee Letter

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 12/02/2025

Why do historians so often say that people were “just good friends?” youtu.be/tFdeGMJxd4E?...

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"And historians will say they were just good friends..."

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 08/02/2025

When Donna Burkett and Manonia Evans applied for a marriage license in Milwaukee in 1971 they unexpectedly found themselves at the forefront of the fight for marriage equality. youtu.be/er-g3fS1JGE?...

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Donna Burkett & Manonia Evans

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 07/02/2025

Using young, radicalized white men to destroy scientific data and queer culture is nothing new. The 1933 raid on Berlin’s Institute for Sexual Science did exactly that. youtu.be/4cJIVJmcG4E

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That Raid on the Institute for Sexual Science

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 03/02/2025

There’s a Queer History 101 reading list in our Bookshop storefront: bookshop.org/shop/yesterq... Purchasing books through our storefront is a great way to support our work, but you can also use the lists as a guide to borrow from your local library or buy from other indie booksellers!

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 28/01/2025

Dutch artist and author Willem Arondeus saved countless lives by blowing up the Amsterdam Civil Registry office in 1943. youtu.be/QBSFBOxXJVw?...

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Queer Hero: Willem Arondeus

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 25/01/2025

The story of how Matthew Shepard’s ashes came to be interred at the National Cathedral. youtube.com/shorts/6ZsBa...

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Matthew Shepard's Interment at the National Cathedral

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 24/01/2025

Why are gay men in China sometimes referred to as “cut sleeves?” youtube.com/shorts/asUtk...

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The Passion of the Cut Sleeve

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 26/12/2024

Mrs. Claus is an integral part of modern Christmas culture thanks to a queer poet and scholar who’s best known for writing the lyrics to “America the Beautiful” - Katharine Lee Bates! yesterqueers.com/videos/katha...

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Katharine Lee Bates — Yesterqueers

Mrs. Claus is an integral part of modern Christmas culture thanks to the queer poet, professor, and social reformer who’s best known for writing the lyrics to ‘America the Beautiful’: Katharine Lee Ba...

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 04/12/2024

When Mark Ballas & Derek Hough danced the tango together on the DWTS finale, they were honoring the history of a dance that was once called “the leopard from the brothel.” yesterqueers.com/videos/tango

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The History of the Argentine Tango — Yesterqueers

Though it’s now known as a sensual dance between a man and a woman, the Argentine tango was once danced by men.

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 01/12/2024

Kaúxuma Núpika was a 19th century Ktunaxa healer, warrior, and prophet who started his life as a woman and was later transformed into a man. #nativeamericanheritagemonth yesterqueers.com/videos/kauxu...

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Kaúxuma Núpika — Yesterqueers

Kaúxuma Núpika was a 19th century Ktunaxa healer, warrior, and prophet who started his life as a woman and was transformed into a man.

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 21/11/2024

Sir Lady Java was the first trans woman of color to perform on LA’s club circuit, sharing the stage with stars like Richard Pryor and Sammy Davis, Jr. When the LAPD tried to shut down the clubs that hired her, she partnered with the ACLU and sued. yesterqueers.com/videos/lady-java

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Lady Java — Yesterqueers

Lady Java was the first transgender woman of color to perform in Los Angeles. She shared the stage with legends like Redd Foxx and Sammy Davis Jr., and when the City of Los Angeles tried to shut down ...

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Yesterqueers @yesterqueers.com · 19/11/2024

Every Monday through December I’ll be breaking down what Project 2025 / a Trump presidency could mean for our community and the history of the policies. But first, let’s talk about moral panics. yesterqueers.com/videos/proje...

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