Pretty much the entire world was relatively chill about being gay or trans or nonbinary, until christian missionaries showed up and were like "Well we gotta start killing these people to save their souls!" or however else they liked to justify their fucking terror.
well, not quite "pretty much the entire world was relatively chill" but large swathes of it were not as explicitly hateful as christian european society is and in some places those things were even tolerated and understood as normal
i would say in most places there was a place for gay and trans people. native american two spirit, hawaiian mahu, etc etc really it was almost universal to have a space/third gender/understanding for LGBTQ people in many societies before the colonizer pieces of shit came.
Pretty much the entire world was relatively chill about being gay or trans or nonbinary, until christian missionaries showed up and were like "Well we gotta start killing these people to save their souls!" or however else they liked to justify their fucking terror.
well, not quite "pretty much the entire world was relatively chill" but large swathes of it were not as explicitly hateful as christian european society is and in some places those things were even tolerated and understood as normal
i would say in most places there was a place for gay and trans people. native american two spirit, hawaiian mahu, etc etc really it was almost universal to have a space/third gender/understanding for LGBTQ people in many societies before the colonizer pieces of shit came.
Funnily enough space outside the gender binary also exists in the bible but colonizers apparently couldn't interpret a text correctly