Posted by on February 3, 2025 11:32 am
Originally From: Pink News

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Every LGBTQ+ History Month, which is celebrated in February in the UK, we come together to celebrate queer culture and our many achievements.

But while it’s relatively easy to findLGBTQ+ icons and heroes to look up to nowadays, it can seem like there aren’t many queer figures to connect to who lived before the 20th century.

In many periods of history, LGBTQ+ people weren’t exactly welcomed out of the closet, so it can be difficult to find openly queer idols.

Fortunately, historians have done the hard work of uncovering many prominent figures’ sexualities, so you can have a whole new batch of people who you learned about at school – but who no one mentioned were members of the LGBTQ+ community.

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