The novel The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. Smollett was an incredibly popular book for its time, and so is a valuable resource for modern readers hoping to learn about the culture of the
Thus far I have covered how people in Revolutionary and Founding Era America would have talked about LGBT+ men and women. To do just these two, however, would be to leave out several significant
At the start of my research into LGBTQIA+ women of the Revolutionary and Founding Eras, I was told that at that time LGBTQIA+ women, as a concept, did not exist. The people who espoused this theory
When I first started thinking about the fact that there were LGBTQIA+ people in the late eighteenth century, I imagined that this was something so far from the comprehension of people at the time