History has often ignored men who loved men, women who loved women, and people who lived outsi genr boundari. In No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidn Liv and Secret Lov, thor Lee Wd exam primary source letters, poems, and more to rethk the liv and lov of historil figur. Today Lee jos to give…
Contents:
- NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?
- NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?: HIDN LIV AND SECRET LOV
- DUAL COVER REVEAL & INTERVIEW: NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY? HIDN LIV AND SECRET LOV BY LEE WD
- NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?
- REVIEW: “NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?”
- NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY? HIDN LIV AND SECRET LOV
- PRI MONTH BOOK REVIEW – NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?
- TWO NEW STRONG REVIEWS FOR “NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?” – PUBLISHERS WEEKLY & BOOKOLOGY
- NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?: AN INTERVIEW WH AUTHOR LEE WD
NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?
No Way, They Were Gay?: Queer History by Lee Wd, om Lerner Publishg Inc., is an tnal, nonfictn book (tend dience of ag 8-11) about * no way they were gay *
A most, well-tentned ntributn to gay history. Judy Grahn, thor of Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds.
NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?: HIDN LIV AND SECRET LOV
No Way, They Were Gay? journeys through primary sourc to explore the hidn (and often surprisg) queer liv of historil figur. * no way they were gay *
Don't the ncept of the "power of love" kiss sound so right for a gay love story, actually? “No Way, They Were Gay?
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⚠️ Content Warngs: homophobia, racism2, 375 reviews21 followersMarch 12, 2022Conversatnal, opnated and fact-filled, this exploratn of a handful of historic figur who eher hid their sexualy or crafted a life outsi of the genr bary, is full of eye-openg his great cred Lee Wd explas his creria for choosg the subjects he foced on and he reli heavily on primary sourc - tobgraphi and letters.
DUAL COVER REVEAL & INTERVIEW: NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY? HIDN LIV AND SECRET LOV BY LEE WD
150 reviewsAugt 29, 2021Why did I have to wa till I was 30 to learn that Tchaikovsky was gay?
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NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?
Dog so much for the civil rights movement the USA but was nied notoriety (until rather recently) bee of his gayns, threatened wh beg outed and ternal homophobia om his equally important Black muny. In the 1980s Rt said this an terview: ‘When one is attacked for beg gay, sensiz you to a greater unrstandg and sympathy for others who face bigotry, and one realiz the damage that beg misunrstood n do to people… to attack anyone bee he's Jewish, black, a homosexual, a woman, or any other reason over which that person has no ntrol is que terrible.
Jt before he died, he add ‘… if we want to do away wh the jtice to gays will not be done bee we get rid of the jtice to gays.
REVIEW: “NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?”
Eleanor and Lorena’s love letters to each other which were jt so sweetThe impact of lonialism and spreadg ‘wtern’ ias damaged the tradns of both Ain cultur and Native Amerin - cludg public women-lovg-women relatnships which were hidn away ‘the closet’, Kendall (who wrote M’e Mpho’s tobgraphy) ‘nclud that love between women is as native to Southern Ai as the soil self, but that homophobia, like Mugabe’s Christiany, is a Wtern import.
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Borrowed-om-library historil non-fictn 1, 131 reviews4 followersFebary 23, 2021I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley exchange for my unbiased No Way, They Were Gay?, Lee Wd explor var historil figur of the LGBTQIA+ muny.
NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY? HIDN LIV AND SECRET LOV
Lee Wd’s “No Way, They Were Gay? So the numbers are nice, but even more than that is the impact the blog has had on dividuals, some of whom have been kd enough to wre me over the years to say thgs like, “I read almost every day when I was first realizg I was gay and was g out…” (From a teen who started readg my blog at 12) and “you are credibly welg to not only LGBTQ teens and those who serve them, but also to potential alli.
So your book NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY? The ia for NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY? I’m Gay, and felt so alone.
PRI MONTH BOOK REVIEW – NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?
Part three – I cid to wre a YA novel about a closeted Gay teen who disvers the exact same letters I did, has the exact same goosebump moment I did, and cis he’s gog to out Lln to change how everyone feels about Gay people. And that’s NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?
NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY? BB: I n already hear the distant mbl of people who believe that discsg the secret gay liv of famo people is, they would say, a bad thg.
TWO NEW STRONG REVIEWS FOR “NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?” – PUBLISHERS WEEKLY & BOOKOLOGY
The problem go back to the word homosexual, which I thk don’t do the Queer muny any favors.
NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?: AN INTERVIEW WH AUTHOR LEE WD
I thk a much better term would be homoLOVEual. Bayard Rt beg the openly Gay Black man hidn the Civil Rights movement, teachg Dr.