Felt the need to finally dive into some queer history in light of the ramping up of the otherization campaign against us. Following up Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna with Gay Berlin. Just started it but I found a short little mention of how the German word schwul in the late 1800s/early 1900s was perceived differently by younger and older queer people, with older people seeing it as negative and younger people seeing it as neutral or positive. Even Magnus Hirschfeld apparently chastised some dude for saying it. Replace schwul with queer and nothing has has changed in over 100 years. It's all cycles upon cycles, the discourse will never end and nothing new ever happens. :stalin-stressed:
Felt the need to finally dive into some queer history in light of the ramping up of the otherization campaign against us. Following up Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna with Gay Berlin. Just started it but I found a short little mention of how the German word schwul in the late 1800s/early 1900s was perceived differently by younger and older queer people, with older people seeing it as negative and younger people seeing it as neutral or positive. Even Magnus Hirschfeld apparently chastised some dude for saying it. Replace schwul with queer and nothing has has changed in over 100 years. It's all cycles upon cycles, the discourse will never end and nothing new ever happens. :stalin-stressed: