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I'm your host Danica Ellis. This is episode number 453.5 and today I'm going to

talk about a couple of books about queer history.

One is an actual history book and the other is a kid's historical fiction graphic novel.

I feel like queer history is so important both in terms of historical fiction and actual

history novels because it's been so suppressed and I think a lot of queer people have taken in this idea that being

queer is a recent invention and that queer people didn't exist until like the 80s which is obviously not true

but it can be really hard to find queer history it's something that often has to be excavated that was talked around

or that was actively burned or buried or not written down. So it makes it harder to find, but it also makes it so great

when you can find it. I think that discovering queer history that wasn't known before is always such a

fascinating thing to find out about so I am interested in queer history. I would love to learn more.

There's obviously so much out there. Last year I got to read a lot of queer history books because I was a judge with the Lambda Literary Awards in the non-fiction category.

But before I tell you one of those that I want to

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