It’s just referring to the common pattern of history books and information at places like museums erasing gay people by calling them “friends” instead. Including stuff like two men buried together in ways that only married couples would have been in their culture or paintings that show two women very obviously being intimate in some way in a bed being labelled as two “good friends”
Just referring to situations when there is obviously a homosexual relationship and some historians description will say “best friends” or “roommates” because they are so arrogant or bigoted they can’t see it for what it really is.
Mostly seems to happen with women, because god forbidden two women love each other before the current era.
For example this would be incorrectly labeled “two roommates startled well getting dressed for dates with their boyfriends.”
Is this refering to specific historical figures?
Or just that homosexuality was way more widespread than history books would make us believe?
edit: thanks, my question has been answered.
It’s just referring to the common pattern of history books and information at places like museums erasing gay people by calling them “friends” instead. Including stuff like two men buried together in ways that only married couples would have been in their culture or paintings that show two women very obviously being intimate in some way in a bed being labelled as two “good friends”
There’s a meme that historians are willfully blind to obvious gay relationships of historical figures.
The reality is, as usual, more complicated, but the versions of stories that reach the general public aren’t really known for nuance.
Just referring to situations when there is obviously a homosexual relationship and some historians description will say “best friends” or “roommates” because they are so arrogant or bigoted they can’t see it for what it really is.
Mostly seems to happen with women, because god forbidden two women love each other before the current era.
For example this would be incorrectly labeled “two roommates startled well getting dressed for dates with their boyfriends.”