9 Historical Novels by 20th-Century Queer Writers

Queer people have been writing historical fiction since before queerness existed—by which I mean, since before it was hammered into an antithesis to heterosexuality during the long nineteenth century. By the turn of the twentieth, queers looking to write about the past had to grapple with new, rigid identity categories that didn’t necessarily reflect how […] The post 9 Historical Novels by 20th-Century Queer Writers appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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