“Emily Dickinson writing to her sis in law, Sue, ‘I tore open your letter and licked the envelope’s seal for any lingering trace of you,’ and historians think they’re just ’really good friends.‘”

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"Da Vinci was big gay, but the church decided he wasn't. I guess that's erasure."

"Calling someone a lover is one thing, but I cannot believe any serious historian interprets 'You don’t like being kissed. Please allow me to do so today. You have to pay for the dirty dream I had about you last night' as the musings of a completely heterosexual man."

"TBH the gay community doesn't really want Buchanan, but we must accept him regardless of how bad a president he apparently was."

"As a trans woman, that and everything else I've read about him in this context, he's SO obviously a trans woman in almost a cartoonish way"

"In The Garden of Eden, he writes about a monogamous hetero couple who eventually open their relationship and have a throuple with another woman. The husband and wife cut and bleach their hair similarly, and the wife also begins exploring her gender identity. It’s an interesting book. I think people in the past may have read it as 'this is about a woman discovering she’s a lesbian,' while today the themes of sexual identity, gender identity, and polyamory are much more obvious and difficult to separate. It really makes one wonder what was going on in Hemingway’s own life."

"During the initial editing of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts, Sue's name was literally cut and erased from several poems and letters to intentionally remove her as an important person in Dickinson's life. Literal erasure helped create the 'myth' of Emily Dickinson."