No way, they were gay?: hidden lives and secret loves

Introduction

Hidden history

Making choices

Good stuff to know

Part i: men who loved men

What's ahead: Tchaikovsky and the men of Swan Lake

Chapter 1 William Shakespeare

Chapter 2 President Abraham Lincoln

Chapter 3 Mahatma Gandhi

Chapter 4 Bayard Rustin

Part ii: women who loved women

What's ahaed: Freda Du Faur and the mountain she named for the woman she loved

Chapter 5 Sappho

Chapter 6 Queen Anne

Chapter 7 Eleanor Roosevelt

Chapter 8 M'e Mpho Nthunya

Part iii: people who lived outside gender boundaries

What's ahead: the Chevalier D'eon and Mademoiselle de Beaumont were the same person

Chapter 9 Pharaoh Hatshepsut

Chapter 10 Catalina de Erauso, the lieutenant nun

Chapter 11 We'wha

Chapter 12 Christine Jorgensen

Conclusion

It's not about the numbers, it's about a safe space

The history of the rainbow flag that brought it all together.