Gay illtrator J.C. Leyencker's Thanksgivg vers for The Saturday Eveng Post took the grim out of pilgrim.
Contents:
- THANKSGIVING GAY HISTORY: GAY PILGRIMS IN 1600’S PLYMOUTH MA
- GAY PILGRIM
- MERRYMOUNT: AMERI’S ‘GAY COLONY’ THAT’S LEFT OUT OF HISTORY BOOKS
- UNEQUAL JTICE FOR THE GAY PURANS OF NEW HAVEN COLONY
- AT PLIMOTH PLANTATN, LSONS GAY HISTORY
- GAY PILGRIMS
- THE GAY ART OF THANKSGIVG
THANKSGIVING GAY HISTORY: GAY PILGRIMS IN 1600’S PLYMOUTH MA
Dig to the history and you'll see plenty of early Amerin lonizers were super gay—and their patrts had views of that were plited, to say the least. * gay pilgrims *
In fact, as historians note, the name "Merrymount" n also refer to a Lat phrase meang “erect phall”—que a cince, given the men erected an 80-foot pole the center of our morn unrstandg of sexualy would have been pletely foreign to them, early European immigrants experienced same-sex attractn jt as we do today, and they had queer sex, entered queer relatnships, and formed queer hoeholds ways that are surprisgly though early laws lled for the ath penalty for “sodomy” and “buggery, ” the Pilgrims had a more plited attu about homosexualy than you might thk.
This proto-Pri proved a b too much for the neighbors, who arrted Morton, chopped down the pole, and sttered the Puran objectns to homosexualy were not entirely rooted what we would ll genr normativy.
GAY PILGRIM
Homosexualy Ameri n be traced way back to the early settlers, better known as the Pilgrims. In 1637, 2 lonists were arrted for beg gay. * gay pilgrims *
”It’s an attu that managed to stay wh Amerins over the terveng centuri, a tensn between distaste for homosexualy and rignatn that will never go away.
MERRYMOUNT: AMERI’S ‘GAY COLONY’ THAT’S LEFT OUT OF HISTORY BOOKS
The worst place for gay Purans lonial New England was New Haven, Conn. You uld get hanged for your sexual orientatn. * gay pilgrims *
And what really matters is keepg the muny together -- which I n relate to as part of a gay muny.
UNEQUAL JTICE FOR THE GAY PURANS OF NEW HAVEN COLONY
PLYMOUTH - In the summer of 1637, two workg men at the English lony at Plymouth faced the possibily of executn, nvicted of what the law books said was a grave moral crime. Gay Pilgrims would have never looked this happy. John Alexanr and Thomas Roberts had been ught a homosexual relatnship. Court rerds… * gay pilgrims *
Pilgrims John Alexanr and Thomas Roberts had been ught a homosexual relatnship.
AT PLIMOTH PLANTATN, LSONS GAY HISTORY
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Plimoth Plantatn Mm Plymouth Massachetts have disvered urt rerds om their se, and om a handful of others to piece together the liv of the lony’s and Ameri’s earlit gay and lbian settlers.
GAY PILGRIMS
Pickerg quoted the poet and thor Pl Mote, who wrote that most of gay history “li shallow bachelors’ grav. ’’ Though the historil rerd is sparse, “we n get a sense of what the optns of the past were, ’’ and provi some sense of history to a morn gay muny “that really don’t have a strong sense of s past much before 1960.
THE GAY ART OF THANKSGIVG
Plimoth Plantatn began rearchg the gay history of the lony about 15 years ago, preparatn for brgg s repli of the Pilgrim ship Mayflower to gay-iendly Provcetown.
Through the rerds were snt the prosecutn of Alexanr and Roberts for homosexual nduct reveals layers of plexi the pilgrim life. As I gay man, I know that I did not choose to be gay, as many heterosexual people unfortunately believe to this day.
Nobody choos to be gay, too; that is who we are. Homosexualy Ameri n be traced way back to the early settlers, better known as the Pilgrims. In 1637, two male lonists at Plymouth were arrted for beg gay.