Posted on 06/11/2022 6:30:18 PM PDT by Ennis85
A new "woke" series on the Discovery+ video streaming service highlights "queer" historical figures in an alternative retelling of history.
"To celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, we are setting the historical record straight and introducing 'The Book of Queer' right at the top of Pride Month," Howard Lee, president of TLC streaming and network originals, said in a statement. "We couldn't be any more excited to have Margaret Cho, Leslie Jordan, Dominique Jackson, Alex Newell, Ross Matthews as well as an impressive and talented group of historians, actors and musicians spilling the tea alongside us."
According to a press release from Discovery+, the five-episode series celebrates and recognizes "the incredible history of the LGBTQ+ community," and is produced by an "entirely queer ensemble cast" recreating historical moments with the perspective of more than a dozen "scholars of queer history."
Promotional videos for the series imply such notable historical figures as former President Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, U.S. astronaut Sally Ride, Joan of Arc, and Alexander the Great were actually "queer" and that the series will "pull the rainbow curtain back" on their lives, according to the release.
Show co-creator Eric Cervini is an award-winning historian of LGBTQ+ politics, and writer of "The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America," which was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
"This show is an unprecedented fusion of history, comedy, and music," Cervini said in one of the promotional videos for the show airing on Discovery+ starting June 2. "Giving the world its first queer variety show that introduces the world to stories from our queer past."
Other episodes in the series will explore how queer historical figures helped win World War II and present the story of a "gender bending pharaoh" in Egypt.
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Was it written by Ben Dover?
Someone produce a TV version of “The Pink Swastika” instead
There was a time when it came to the queers and their lifestyle I would say live and let live.
However since the queers are now on full assault to ran, cram, and jam there f*cked up lifestyle down my throat, I HATE everything they stand for. Their perverted lifestyle is destroying this country. They need crawl back under the rock they came from. THKE THE DEMOCRATS WITH YOU.
I do know some historical psychopaths were gay, like Alexander the Great.
Achilles from the battle of Troy was gay, I remember because he killed Hector in revenge for the death of his gay lover who had dressed up in his armor.
There is only one destiny for those who do not heed the one and only Gospel.
Homosexual acts should have remained illegal everywhere.
All Americans should nuke their streaming services and go back to the days of talking to neighbors on the porch steps or having a community softball game.
The WW2 part must be about Alan Turing and Enigma.
Not Gay Abe again.
There is nothing in Homer to suggest that the friendship between Achilles and Patroclus had a sexual component. Both men had female captives to sleep with. Achilles’ wrath against Agamemnon, the central plot of the poem, flared up because Agamemnon took Achilles’ female captive.
I think Al Sharpton is the recognized authority on the topic of homosexuality in ancient Greece.
you of course might be right, and I might have better said bi-sexual than gay, but I get your point.
It's not a topic I have studied in depth but my impression is that there is no overt homosexuality, or celebration of it, in Homer, only in some later Greek authors...it may have been more of a Dorian (as opposed to Ionian) practice and more common among the aristocratic elite than the common people. Certainly it existed in Sparta and on Crete (both Dorian) and among upper-class Athenians (representations on 6th-century BC Athenian vases). Probably very few Greek men were exclusively homosexual--most got married because they wanted sons to continue the family.
As far as Alexander the Great, he seems to have had homosexual leanings but did finally marry (his widow gave birth to his son a few months after his death). But contemporary Athenians like Demosthenes thought of him as a barbarian, not a Greek.
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