Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
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I have a young friend who is gay and hiding his sexuality in the US army. He’s gone through basic training in South Carolina this past winter. I told him this history and he couldn’t believe it and said I was making up stories to make him feel good. He got back to me months later to tell me he read up on all this is and was amazed. He said his Hephaestion was waiting for him at home.
You’re a wholesome friend and a true supporter of historical knowledge o7
Explanation: It is generally accepted that Alexander the Great was bisexual by modern historians, and widely suspected that one of his lovers was his bodyguard, Hephaestion.
omg besties
The Monument to the Sailors of the Dnieper Flotilla, erected 1979, Kyiv, Ukraine, then-the-Ukrainian SSR
How you can tell someone doesn’t have a degree in the humanities, or doesn’t understand their degree:
They think anything above “Aliens built the Pyramids” or “All human languages are secretly Turkic” or “The Roman Empire didn’t exist” can be dismissed with an “end of story”. Historians can’t even agree on dates. Lit majors are even worse - and someone who supposedly has a degree in Classical Literature thinks that the interpretation of Sappho as sapphic (dohohoho), a mainstream position since at least the Roman Empire, should know better than to dismiss the position as ‘actually insane’. Not least because it is still the mainstream position and has only become reinforced with recent scholarship.
Someone might be lying on the internet :o
Explanation: Historians used to be extremely reluctant, due to lingering Victorian-era mores, to acknowledge GSMs in history. Nowadays the problem is much reduced, and historians are generally more open to acknowledging the GSM identity or possible identity of historical figures.
The Roman Emperor Elagabalus is now generally considered, if a third of the stories repeated about them by contemporary histories are true (and while Elagabalus was unpopular, the stories are remarkably specific accusations to level against someone), to have been trans or NB.