An Alternate Queer History

Megan
2 min readJul 31, 2022
The Marriage of Two Men, in the style of Édouard Manet.

There’s a myth within conservative circles that trans people popped into existence 5 years ago. It’s like no trans people existed, and then poof, there we were. Why, though? What leads people to believe that trans people, and queer people in general, didn’t have a place in history?

Erased…from Existence. That’s been our fate. I truly believe one reason trans people were assumed to not exist before the 2010’s is that…

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