Queer Love and The Victorian Era

It would be misguided to think that everything before the Stonewall Riots was oppression when it comes to queer history. A collection of more than 100 love letters from the late 1800s and early 1900s between former First Lady Rose Cleveland, the sister of President Grover Cleveland, and the love of her life, Minnesota’s Evangeline Simpson Whipple, tells the story of two women who defied the odds to end up together.
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[@kassst23]

Makes me so happy as a young bi person to hear this kinda stuff, even more meaningful to me that these stories happened in MN where I live :)

[@butterbluejeans9394]

Imagine writing intimate love letter to your girlfriend only for them to be published decades later......

[@anismiles5yearsago912]

Bruh

[@prometheustv6558]

More like a century later

[@andromunculus6666]

personally i wouldn't care because i would be dead

[@TexRose956]

This is so enlightening, thanks for sharing.

[@GGiblet]

Thank you so much for this!💜🌈💜 beautiful and empowering, so hopeful

[@jessicahavens1980]

This video is titled "Queer Love and the Victorian Era" but it only covers the love letters of two women from that time for a couple minutes. The rest is about the movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Very misleading title. Was hoping to learn more about what homosexuals endured and faced in the Victorian Era, not the 70s.

[@TwinCitiesPBS]

Thank you for the feedback! We're interested in that too and will see if there's more we could do around that topic area.

[@ellie698]

Thanks for saving me the trouble of watching it

[@USA50_]

Thanks for the video 👍😊🇺🇲🌹

[@caitlinhowell3499]

thank you so much for sharing this!

[@spookyteal]

Great video! Hope to see more. :)

[@mintycoolnessisrelevance]

this is an amazing vid thank u

[@pgpc6448]

The shame only lies on our government protocol that ignored this much needed fact about Rose Cleveland and her partner Evangeline Marrs Whipple.

[@vickyvuicasey1255]

Modern history Mr Muller gave him a kundu a traditional musical instrument enjoyed the subject at school

[@mayou7381]

*WAAAAAAAAAW!!*

[@7653hhfg]

I hate my self

[@g.quagmire7583]

don’t hate yourself

[@xhfhfhfhfxnxbfhfhf7838]

Why

[@renaebailey82]

I have friends that are gay

[@acarl100]

I love this ,,, like nobody knows that Catherine the Great ,,, who died in bed when the harness holding her favorite horse BROKE and the horse fell on her ... Like nobody knew that Hitler was a screaming ,,, golden shower loving ,,, gay whose love letters to his highschool boyfreind and his 2nd lover have been found ... Like nobody knows that J Edgar Hoover ,,, you know the guy who was head of the FBI from it's begining in the 1920s till Nixon got fed up with his house full of under-age latino boys passing as house staff for him and his piano playing male wife ,,, ya ,,, that guy you know the one who covered up the JFK murder ,,, you know the one that protected the KKK and the mafia was a woman hating gay ... Like the lawyer who was the head behind the MaCarthy era was gay ... And these éople never came out ... HA HA HA ...

[@RookHuntDoer]

Wtf?

[@NyrasReiin]

Man what are you even saying? This is all over the place

[@aurin_komak]

Looks like the schizophrenia kicked in

[@debmandicino]

Lesbian not queer!

[@monikamunoz9168]

tomato, not vegetable!

[@wesbodine6102]

@@monikamunoz9168 You may not be aware of this, but tomatoes are actually classified as a fruit LMAO!

[@jamesrobiscoe1174]

False title

[@2020Bookworm]

People with short left index fingers date women. Just look at the backs of your hands.

[@sistergoldenhair0727]

I don’t get why people need to be affirmed by others? I don’t look for myself when I read books. Books are an escape from my life and not a reflection of my life. I don’t want or need a mirror in a book. If people are gay-be gay! Who cares what others think or believe? I certainly don’t live my life for the approval of others.

[@plainsalt]

It's not about representation. It's literally about history. WE (lgbtq+ people) are part of history. There are so many people who think queer people didn't exist until the 80s and say we just "invented it" or follow a trend. There are literally hundreds and thousands of species participating in same sex intercourse and romantic relationships. We should be teaching queer history just like we teach all the other. If we did and became more educated there wouldn't be idiots saying it's just a trend. We've always been here and always will be. It's really not that hard to understand.
Even if you don't want books to be mirrors just don't read that book. Some people like reading about similar experiences and maybe even discover things about themselves through others' stories.

[@joannamonique707]

Lady just say u don't like gay people and keep it pushing 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@Fantazaelia]

Unfortunately people in this world do care about what others think and believe, which is why certain groups of people are oppressed and discriminated against. The best way to combat this discrimination is to show that these certain groups of people are not a threat and are equally as human as anyone else