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John Boswell: Same-sex unions in premodern Europe (1995, Vintage Books)

From Wikipedia: Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe is a historical study written by American historian …

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So many timelines of Queer History start with Stonewall & Oscar Wilde. This book sheds light on a long history of queer unions of love, but personal and church-sanctioned. With so much of our history erased or painfully reinterpreted to be as hetero as possible, this is an essential record of our forebearers’ hearts & legacy.