Welcome to getting curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by the co-creators of the Instagram Handle LGBT history and co-authors of We Are Everywhere.

Protest, Power, and Pride in the history of Queer Liberation, Leighton Brown, and Matthew Reamer, where I ask, do we know enough about queer history?

Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Venice.

I'm so excited for this week's episode.

Instagram, icons, well I'm actually I think your icons in real life too, but I've been following your Instagram for such a long time and it's so important and I'm so excited to meet you in real life finally

welcome to getting curious Matthew Reamer and Alayton Brown.

Thank you very much.

So can I tell you, this is only the second time in Getting Curious,

third time in Getting Curious History,

where I've had two guests.

Oh, yes, because usually I don't, but you guys are too important to, you can't, you know,

divide, we've got to have you guys together.

If you don't know who these two are, they run the incredible account on

Instagram LGBT underscore history, which has I think made me a more well-rounded,

I gotta see you in the eyes, there we go, which I think has made me a more well-rounded I gotta see you in the eyes there we go which I think has made me a more

well-rounded person generally and I really just have to say thank you so much for doing what you do because I think

it is just so moving and so great and but actually important I think is the first word that I would say to it

it's such an example of like you know how people would say like in the 90s like TV like for your brain and

whatever it's like I feel like Instagram can kind of have that

rap now but it really is such an example like what you put into something

is what you get out of it and your knowledge of history and being able to put history

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