This week we look at 3 LGBTQ+ figures. Lara looks at James I, Phoebe at Sappho and Katie at the Galli.
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Lara, Phoebe and Katie
Sources used:
Borman, T. 2014, Witches: James I and the English Witch-Hunts. London: Random House.
Chards, M. (10 April 2018). The English King who treated himself with a harem of male courtiers. [online]. Cultura Colectiva. Available at: https://culturacolectiva.com/history/king-james-history-homosexuality/ [Accessed: 06 June 2022]
English Heritage. (n.d.). The Galli: Breaking Roman Gender Norms. [online] Available at: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/lgbtq-history/the-galli/
Epstein, K. (18 August 2018). The King and his husband: the gay history of British royals [online]. The Washington Post. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/08/18/the-king-and-his-husband-the-gay-history-of-british-royals/ [Accessed: 06 June 2022]
Mendelsohn, Daniel. (9 August 2015). How Gay Was Sappho?. The New Yorker. Available at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/girl-interrupted [Accessed: 06 June 2022]
Pettinger, Tejvan. (15 February 2020). “Biography of Sappho”, Oxford, www.biographyonline.net. [Accessed: 06 June 2022]
Reid-Smith, T. (14 January 2017). The secret history of the gay Kings and Queens of England [online]. Gay Star News. Available at: https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/secret-history-gay-kings-queens-england/ [Accessed: 06 June 2022]
Sappho, Poets.org, Available at: https://poets.org/poet/sappho [Accessed: 06 June 2022]
Waxman, Tess M., "Sappho's Queer Female History" (2017). Young Historians Conference. 20. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/younghistorians/2017/oralpres/20
