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History<\/em>. It\u2019s more\nthan simply facts about people who lived long ago. <\/span>It\u2019s about you\u2014how you live your life today. <\/span> <\/span>Armed with facts, you become the\nbetter version of yourself. As you interact with family, friends and others, the\nlessons of<\/span> history give you the confidence and ammunition you (or someone you love) will need to deal with\nmisinformation, prejudice and ignorance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This book is filled with stories of LGBTQ+ figures throughout history\u2014artists, leaders, revolutionaries, thinkers\u2014people who defied expectations and redefined social norms.<\/p>\n

With each page turned, you’ll feel a spark of pride in their accomplishments, and your own potential. Learn about Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician who helped break the Nazi codes and essentially shaped modern computing. Audre Lorde, whose poetry gave voice to resistance and empowerment. These aren\u2019t just names; they’re proof that LGBTQ+ <\/span>people have always been part of history\u2014creating, changing, thriving.<\/p>\n

Identity isn’t something to shrink or disguise. These stories prove that. There are a few tales of the shame of those who betrayed their own identity. Most are narratives of triumph. People may admire knowledge, but more than that, they respect authenticity.<\/p>\n

History has power\u2014not just to inform, but to transform. Queers In History<\/a><\/em> is more than a collection of stories about past figures; it\u2019s a testament to the resilience and brilliance of LGBTQ+ individuals, offering a foundation for self-image and social confidence.<\/p>\n\n\nThe Encyclopedia of Historical LGBT+\n\nA thousand and one short stories about Prominent People<\/span>\n\n\nForeword by Sir Ian McKellen\n\n\n“plenty of engaging, unexpected stories. \u2026  fascinating narratives of love, discrimination, and resistance come through \u2026 readers may find themselves reading this encyclopedia as if it were an epic novel.”<\/span>\u2014<\/span>Kirkus Reviews<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em>\n<\/span\u00a0style=\"color:>\n\n\nVolume One of Two (A\u2013K) By Last Name<\/a>
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2025 marks the 32nd anniversary of Queers in History<\/em>, first released in 1993 on diskettes and later on CD-ROMs as the first widely available \u201cnew media\u201d title in bookstores. Constantly updated, it was republished 16 years later in 2009 as a trade paperback, marking the beginning of an era when many public figures began coming out, making it difficult to keep up with new entries.<\/span><\/p>

Now, another 16 years later, this revised edition expands further with new people, updates, and a continued focus on a historical timeline spanning 5,000 years. Trans people have been in-cluded since the start, though earlier editions had omissions this update aims to address. The hardcover has outgrown the bounds of a single volume and must now be split in two parts (A\u2013K and L\u2013Z) by last name. This format will be easier for readers to handle.<\/span><\/p>

One of the original intentions for Queers in History<\/em> was that it should eventually become unnecessary. The hope was that the value of the contributions queer people have made and continue to make to society would become widely known and accepted. In the years following publication of the paperback, that seemed to be happening.<\/span><\/p>

In 2025, however, we see governments erasing words like \u201ctrans,\u201d \u201cnon-binary,\u201d \u201cgender\u201d and \u201cpronoun\u201d from publications, websites, libraries, archives, scientific studies, schools and even the signage of national monuments like The Stonewall Inn. In the US, Executive Orders mandate dropping the \u201cT\u201d from LGBT+ (as if they didn\u2019t exist) and promulgate the easily-disproved fiction that people are born and remain as one of only two pure genders. The \u201cB\u201d is next to go and eventually \u201cL\u201d and \u201cG\u201d too. It looks like there may be as much need for this book and more like it, as ever there was.<\/span><\/p>


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Customers find the encyclopedia well-researched and comprehensive, with one noting that 99% of the content is validated with exhaustive research. Moreover, the book is entertaining, with one customer describing it as a fun trip through time, and another mentioning its hundreds of mini-biographies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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“After reading this marvelous book, I have a better appreciation of the struggles of LGBTs to obtain their inalienable rights. I hope I’m a little more mature about this topic, even though I laughed out loud at the Marlon Brando\/Wally Cox affair. I don’t know if I’ll ever be mature enough to not laugh at that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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“It is well researched, well documented, and covers many years of people, their lives and sexual identity. I thoroughly enjoyed this book because it was easy to follow up but the lives of these human beings are real. And I learned a few things and that’s another good thing about this book.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersinhistory.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersinhistory.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersinhistory.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersinhistory.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersinhistory.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/queersinhistory.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/queersinhistory.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersinhistory.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}