{"id":36872,"date":"2023-10-16T11:49:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthymindsphilly.org\/?p=36872"},"modified":"2023-10-26T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T16:38:18","slug":"lgbtqia-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthymindsphilly.org\/dev\/blog\/lgbtqia-ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA+ Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LGBTQIA+ ancestors inspire and encourage Queer people. LGBTQIA+ communities need this inspiration and encouragement, as they suffer higher rates of mental illness, often brought on by discrimination and oppression not impacting other straight and cisgender individuals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LGBTQIA+ ancestors can be activists who won rights and freedoms\u2014and still fight that fight\u2014for this community. They are a noble part of the history of LGBTQIA+ rights. The community also takes inspiration from the history of great Queer artists. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">William Shakespeare, who is known as the English language\u2019s greatest playwright, wrote 126 love poems to a man. Amy Lowell won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1926 and has been called the finest lesbian love poet since ancient Greece. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Baldwin was one of the greatest public intellectuals of the 20th century, and his wisdom remains a touchstone today. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philadelphia\u2019s own gay philosopher and critic Alain Leroy Locke and legendary bisexual jazz vocalist Billie Holiday are a source of inspiration for many around the country and the world. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lesbian artist and muralist of the Pennsylvania\u00a0 Capitol building Violet Oakley made her home in Philadelphia. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking back at great LGBTQIA+ activists, artists and thinkers\u2014or those that are believed to have been LGBTQIA+\u2014boosts our pride in who Queer people can be and the things they can accomplish.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently I\u2019ve been researching transgender people of the past. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chevalier D\u2019 Eon was a diplomat, spy, and fencing master from the time of Napoleon. Assigned male at birth, she lived as a woman from the time she was 49 and successfully petitioned the English courts to be legally recognized as a woman. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Son of a Black father and Native American mother and assigned female at birth, Ralph Kerwineo lived his life as a man in the American Midwest more than a hundred years ago. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Billy Tipton, also assigned female at birth, was a great American jazz musician and bandleader through the 1930s, \u201840s, and \u201850s who lived as a man. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April Ashley was a woman who transitioned in 1960 at age 25 and became a successful model in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">British Vogue.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transgender people have shaped our culture for centuries. Learning about their lives can help us all see that character, bravery, and greatness are not just for cisgender and straight people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The burden of proof for a person to be widely understood as LGBTQIA+ is unfairly higher than that required for a historical figure to be seen as straight and cisgender, and denying the Queer past has been a way to erase and other LGBTQIA+ people for many years. For me, rediscovering people who were LGBTQIA+ in the past is a quest. I hope to help build a place for myself and all sexual and gender minorities in the world\u2019s history and culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the Author: Andrew White\u00a0<\/span>is the LGBTQIA+ Community Equity Engagement Specialist for the DEI Team at DBHIDS. He also writes for the Gay and Lesbian Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGBTQIA+ ancestors inspire and encourage Queer people. 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