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Notable Transgender and Non-binary Individuals (Chinese/English)

LGBTQ+ documentaries from Africa

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18th century manservants accused of being maidservants in disguise

Records of trans masculine people in the 10th c. Taiping Guangji

Lou Cheng of Dongyang, an elder transmasc 5th c. government official?

History makers who use they/them pronouns

Building civilizations without distinguishing between ‘she’ and ‘he’

Sapphic nature goddess Mani Ara fanart

Children’s Books by LGBTQ+ Black Authors

“Song of a Man Named Li” – a same-sex love affair that inspired the creations of multiple 18th c. literati

Lord Bi Yuan’s spouses: wife Wang De and drag queen Li Guiguan

Is a drag queen the main muse of an 18th c. polyamorous pansexual polymath?

“Ballad of a man named Li”: courtship of a celebrity drag queen and a poor scholar immortalized in 18th c. poetry

Drag diva meets broke bureaucrat: a love story in 18th c. Beijing’s gay scene

Resources for learning about queer South Asian experiences

Resources connecting LGBTQ+ people of color and/or allies of color (US-focused)

Queer acceptance in Asian societies before and after the introduction of western European queerphobia

Black allyship for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States

Notable Transgender and Non-binary Individuals (Spanish/English)

Notable Transgender and Non-binary Individuals from South Asia

The courageous stepmother – a Ming Dynasty transwoman fights for her stepson’s future

A custom that inspired storytellers– formal homoerotic unions between AMAB people in Fujian province during the Ming dynasty