• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    20 hours ago

    “Bonomi concluded that Lord Cornbury’s crossdressing was likely invented by his political enemies as character assassination.”

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      11 hours ago

      And…?

      My point was that the Founders would have been familiar with the idea of transgender. Also, most of them had studied the Classics, and would have known about Sappho and the initiation rituals of the Spartan warriors.

      Homosexualism* wasn’t invented in the 20th Century.

      *I can’t find the video, but I once heard William F. Buckley use that word and it’s lived in my head ever since.

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        18 hours ago

        Sometimes it’s a “Sappho and her friend” situation, but it sounds like this guy was just a straight crook.