"Ideals, values, moral codes, conceptions of mankind, and the very nature of reality were so substantially distinct from those of the present century that one historian was moved to entitle a book on the structure of society three hundred years past The World We Have Lost" (Burg 1).
Three hundred years back
In a time we thought we knew,
Man and man did join.
Out of the mist comes
A time so scarcely discussed,
We forget it all.
Yet still these stories
Through years have lived in waves, in
Water memory.
The 1600s were a time period so different from the 2000s. We would never expect of old societies that they were more welcoming and accepting, in some ways, of LGBT life than we are today. This is the case, though. And it is a fact of history that has been so distorted and rewritten to fit our current narrative that it is imperative it be relearned.
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Gay Pirates: LGBT History
ŞiirIn an attempt to circulate LGBT history, I've written a series of haiku to illustrate the time period where pirates were active in history. In the 1700s, people understood sexuality and gender so differently from how we do today. Historians are ofte...
