June 23- John Swann Pirates, in the context of the Age of Piracy, were participants in a fully criminalized occupation. These exploits were not simply based in cultural conquest, as in the piracy of Scandinavian vikings or the Gothic-Herulic fleets that harried coastal towns and utilized the waterways for quick entry and escape, but was... Continue Reading →

June 29- Vitória To really drive the point that there are more examples of specialized vocabulary for pre-colonial and colonial era queer folk and that we have always been here, Luiz Mott, a Brazilian queer historian, “popularized” the story of a woman from Benin from the arrest records of the Portuguese Inquisition in Lisbon in... Continue Reading →

June 30- A Word about Erasure We have arrived at the end of the month, and over the course of the past 30 days we have been introduced to stories about a wide range of queer people from history. Some were closeted, others were not; some were names that would be familiar to many SCAdians,... Continue Reading →