People who think homosexuality was invented in the 20th century by white people can feel free to contemplate my writeup on 1,000 years of recorded homosexuality in premodern #Korea . https://ljwrites.blog/posts/queer-premodern-korea/ And a lot of these records are by people who did not even remotely like what they were reporting.

My 13th-century ancestor Yi Gyubo, on the other hand, celebrated the hell out of his learned monk friend's romantic relationship with a young man because dude was cool that way. Neither he nor contemporary record-keepers found the idea of dudes in love with dudes anachronistic or irrelevant, I guess no one gave them the memo that gay people weren't supposed to exist yet. #QueerHistory #history #LjBlogs

Records of homosexuality in premodern Korea

Who could their emulation of / the courtly love infringe?

Salty because of last boost: https://fandom.ink/@alpine_thistle/113260714863955734 Medieval monks didn't fuck dudes, you say? I have an illustrated ancestor who had a word or two to say about that, you calling my irritating drunkard Gramps a liar or what?
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Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167): embodied the height of homoerotic beauty in the 12th century, slept with men, experienced anti-gay sexual harassment, went boysober and joined a monastery, remained in love with men even after taking a vow of chastity, invoked classical and Biblical homoerotic archetypes in his writing, encouraged his monks to be in love with each other and wrote them a relationship advice manual, claimed in the 70s by gay activists Some people: "gay" is anachronistic uwu

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(Seriously, dude had his issues and if I'd known him in life I'd have felt like strangling him probably. But he was a genius writer, ally, and long dead, three qualities that make him tolerable.)