I think my taste in women can be explained through the fact that my Pirates of the Caribbean crush was never Elizabeth Swan or Will Turner, but was actually
15 LGBT Legends from the past for 50 years of Stonewall 12/15: Sappho of Lesbos
Sappho of Lesbos (ca. 630 – ca. 570 BC) was a Lesbian Woman, the words Sapphic andLesbianare named after her. She was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a lyre. In ancient times, Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the “Tenth Muse” and “The Poetess”. Most of Sappho’s poetry is now lost, and what is extant has survived only in fragmentary form, except for one complete poem: the “Ode to Aphrodite”. As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Sappho was a prolific poet, probably composing around 10,000 lines. Her poetry was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, and she was among the canon of nine lyric poets most highly esteemed by scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. Sappho’s poetry is still considered extraordinary and her works continue to influence other writers. Beyond her poetry, she is well known as a symbol of love and desire between women.
seriously I had some little TikTok teenybopper burst out laughing on my tour because I said that a historical figure was “most likely what we’d now call gay”
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you’re free to take a ouija board out to the cemetery and try to explain the dizzying array of current queer terms and get a solid answer as to how he identifies within that framework but
until then, I’m going to continue NOT definitively assigning someone identity terms they didn’t self-identify with, and might not have even known, when I’m responsible for representing them faithfully and they’re not here to correct me. even more so when they’re part of my own community
I mean, you know, as long as that’s okay with you. Bestie.
[Image: Screencap of someone’s tags. Transcript follows, edited slightly for readability.]
Time Traveler: So now that I’ve explained our current understanding of sexuality would you say that you identify more as lesbian or bi?
Sappho: We went to the moon?
Time Traveler: Yeah, but remember what I told you about the gender binary? Can we talk about—
Sappho: The moon in the fucking sky?
[End transcript.]
Sappho: I mean, not to detract from the fact that I live on Lesbos, and I’d therefore I’d be a Lesbian regardless of whether I identify as a lesbian or bi, but
Sappho: Artemis let men walk on her sacred grounds?
Sappho Playing the Lyre. Léopold Burthe (French, 1823-1860). Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne.
Sappho was called a lyrist because, as was the custom of the time, she wrote her poems to be performed with the accompaniment of a lyre. Sappho was one of the first poets to write from the first person, describing love and loss as it affected her personally. Her style was sensual and melodic; primarily songs of love, yearning, and reflection.
International dating website but it’s for us non-Americans to find an American to marry and give them citizenship to our country so they can escape whatever the fuck is happening there
Nooo y’all in the comments You guys doing okay over there?? Hmu if you wanna ditch America and come here to marry a dumb cottagewhore and raise ducks together in a little cottage, drinking tea and petting our goats
International dating website but it’s for us non-Americans to find an American to marry and give them citizenship to our country so they can escape whatever the fuck is happening there
