Hello, and welcome to History is Gay, a podcast that examines the underappreciated and overlooked

queer ladies, gents, and gentle enbies that have always been there in the unexplored

corners of history, because history has never been as straight as you think.

Yeah. Hello, folks. I'm Lee.

And I'm Gretchen. And in this episode we bring to you today, we are talking about the relationship between LGBT rights and the labor movement.

Right, because when you are listening to this, today is Labor Day.

Woo!

Yes.

So we figured we would try and be aware of the calendar.

Yes. Topical, if you will.

That's a good way to put it.

So yeah, we are going to be diving in. We're going to follow a little bit of a different format this episode.

We've been doing a lot of different formats. We're expanding our horizons.

This is going to be like a big, we're going to give you an overview, a nice

timeline. But before we get into that, I think we've got some, some follow-up from a previous

episode that Gretchen found out. Yeah, we do. This was information that was sent to us over Twitter.

Unfortunately, I say unfortunately, because it kind of shoots down one of our

discussions, but this is a follow-up on our discussion about Egypt, specifically the Egyptian

tomb with the men in it named Khnumhotep and Njahnum. Apparently, scientists have used mitochondrial DNA from their bone marrow and determined that they are or were, I should say, they're not actually alive. They were, in fact, half-brothers. So, yeah, Khnum-A was apparently referred to as the mother of both men, but they didn't have a way of, you know,

verifying it and it could have been like stylistic. But DNA has confirmed that the two men

had the same mother, but different fathers. I still think it feels pretty homoerotic. I mean,

let's be real, right? This was ancient Egypt. Familiar relations. I mean, we all know.

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