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I had a great time in the Australian Queer Archives researching the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands (yes, a whole queer kingdom!) earlier this month.
Some of both the funniest and most touching parts were the letters from people around the world who dreamed of moving to a queer country. Here’s some snippets of my favourites:
“…my question is how to become a citizen in the Gay Kingdom? My Profession is : Butler. And of course I am gay.”
-Luc, New Zealand
“pls tell me did you accept new citizens from other part of the world ? I am bottom gay if you need more info…”
-Alex, Bulgaria
“Dear Sirs,
Please send me more information about immigration to the Gay Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands. Do we have to bring tents to live in? What construction materials are available? I[s] a personal boat essentail? All that sort of thing.
Many thanks to you and Good Luck!
Richard …
(Gay Man)”
There were more but unfortunately I didn’t copy them all down! But if you have a local queer archive I highly encourage you to visit and seek out this kind of wonderful content.
The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands was founded in 2004 by a group of queer Australians. Its flag was the rainbow flag, its currency the Pink Dollar, and its national anthem Gloria Gaynor’s I am what I am.
Check out our podcast to learn more about the kingdom!
[Images: The Kingdom’s emperor Dale Parker Anderson stands beside a rainbow flag; a plaque reading: “The Gay Kingdom: On the 14th day of June 2004 at this, the highest point in the Coral Sea, Emperor Dale Parker Anderson raised the gay rainbow flag and claimed the Islands of the Coral Sea in his name as a homeland for the gay and lesbian people of the world. God Save our King!”; A sign on a beach which reads “Welcome to Heaven, Cato Island Post Code 0000, Capital of the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom, www.gayandlesbiankingdom.com” draped with a rainbow flag, next to a post box labelled “Royal Gay Mail”]
Some Cool Facts I learned from Queer, There, and Everywhere: 27 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager:
Bisexuality and polyamory were the norm in Han Dynasty China, with many empowers having a female wife and an official male companion. It only ended because Emperor Ai of Han had wanted his male partner, Dong Xian, to succeed the throne.
Queer people had their in own country in Oceania from 2004-2017: The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands
Abe Lincoln had a male “intimate friend” called Joshua Fry Speed
Albert Cashier was a trans Irish immigrant who fought for the Union. His fellow soldiers from the Ninety-Fifth made sure he was buried as a man
Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were lovers, their correspondances shared after their deaths.
Zoomers in hell: omg the radio demon doesn't know what the lgbtq is i bet he doesn't even know he's ace.
Meanwhile alastor: why is nothing queer lavender anymore? why are we using every color except lavender? What happened to the flower language? im so confused when did we stop using it, did vox do this to fuck with me? And why do these children keep referring to me as a fighter pilot?! Is that the new word for "fairy" or "dandy"? I realize I'm a bit effeminate but I thought the red made it clear my gender expression. Fuck it I'm gonna go read some Oscar Wild or listen to Billy Stayhorn.
Not just for a rhyme...it's historical context time!
So it's obvious that with the phrase "here's the sugar on the cream" alastor means to say that "here's the best bit" but why use that phrase exactly?
Well fun fact about desserts of the past: they were far less sweet. Now that may seem obvious everything is really sugared up now, but sometimes there would not be sugar cooked or baked into the dish but added afterwards as a topping, particularly with puddings.
A lot of puddings at the time were much more savory and very starchy. Before the invention of gelatin you needed all that starchiness to create that firm pudding texture, especially if you didn't have eggs (if you did it would be a custard, not a pudding), so sugar was added later as a topping, usually with pure cream to make sure you could distribute the sugar evenly. Even though jello was a thing in the 1920s, this was still a very common practice for making puddings, so much so that the tapioca pudding on Ellis island given to immigrants if they stayed overnight was served this way through the mid twenties. So sugar on the cream is literally a historical example talking about the part of something that makes it "the best" even if its not a common turn of phrase. Its not just a substitute to "here's the icing on the cake" or "here's the cherry on top" to make it rhyme with team. Its an actual old fashioned idea relevant to alastor's childhood. Dude probably ate a lot of puddings served this way growing up until gelatin became popular for puddings.
Ok I've had enough of this "Alastor doesn't know about gay stuff" I keep seeing around. As a history nerd I honestly can't take it anymore.
Kiddos it's time to learn you a few things. First of all, compared to subsequent decades,
The 1920s were incredibly gay
Was it still illegal to perform homosexual acts, yes. Were gay people still abused and lost jobs for being gay, and were even socially excluded from cishet white society? Oh absolutely. Did most individuals have to stay closeted? Duh. But you know what wasn't a wide spread thing yet? The medicalization of homosexuality. Conversion therapy wasn't fully approved of by psychiatrists until the 40's. Crossdressing wasn't considered mental illness, scandalous, yes, but not mental illness. The haze codes were not implemented yet, and the combination of prohibition, the two decades prior of progressivism, and the horrors of world war one left the youngest generation with a rebellious spirit and a desire for breaking the law. And if you lived in a big city, being LGBT in the twenties was often better than being LGBT in the 30s, 40s, or even 50s.
Young rich kids would seek out queer cruising spots in cities as a form of tourism. Harlem was famous for it's yearly drag balls, and many of the most famous black artists at the time were infact lgbt. Broadway and Hollywood were full of individuals who people knew were not entirely straight. Hell, jazz was born in red light districts home to black queer people. In places like New York there were people famous for being openly gay and despite sodomy laws police would not care in the slightest about them.
And though the South was as fucked as it ever was with Jim Crow Laws and the race riots, New Orleans has always been one of the more progressive cities in the South and has always had a very large gay community. Between the inherit campiness and debauchery of Mardi gras to being the birth place of jazz, to new Orleans being the easiest place to get away with breaking prohibition laws in the south, Alastor as a mixed race black radio host playing jazz in New Orleans in the 20s ABSOLUTELY is familiar with the LGBT community of the time.
The thing is, the language used by the community at the time was so fundamentally different that alastor would not know what you are talking about if you spoke to him about modern LGBT issues. The pride flag did not even exist yet. Gay still meant happy to him in his age. "Bisexual" at the time was more akin to the term "trans" than being attracted to multiple genders, and transgender didn't exist yet as a word. But if you called yourself "a confirmed bachelor" he would understand you were a man who liked men. If you called yourself a "fairy" he would know you weren't cis. If you were a woman and told him you liked sapho or Peter pan, he'd know you liked women. And if you were wearing lavender, or a green carnation, a red bowtie, a violet (if you were a woman), or were a man with a peacock feather in your ensemble he would give you a knowing nod. He's not ignorant of the lgbtq. He's a man out of his time. He speaks a different language entirely to modern gay slang, so it seem he doesn't know anything about it. But he does. Gay and trans people have always been a thing and as a radio host, literally being on the forefront of mass media at it's beginnings, in arguably the best decade to be gay in the 20th century before the 60s, in a city so comfortable with what was considered debauchery that it gave birth to "devil music" and embraced it before anyone else, yes he knows what they are. He just doesn't have the modern language to express it.
The Cecil Whig, Elkton, Maryland, August 20, 1870
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in like 5-8 years when gen alpha starts really making fun of gen z no one is allowed to complain because like 99% of people do nothing but treat those kids like shit
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