‘Queer’ is an umbrella term that someone might label themselves if they’re not heterosexual or not cisgender (a cisgender person is someone who identifies as the same gender they were assigned at birth), or both.
If you’re not sure what LGBTQ+ stands for, it’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning, plus all other terms that might come under the label of non-heterosexual, non-cisgender, such as asexual or intersex. And as today kicks off Pride Month, what better time to do it than now. While it’s great that people think of these moments, I wanted to take a deeper dive into history so we can better understand just why we all come together to celebrate Pride every year. Still, when most people think of LGBTQ history, they think of the recent gay rights movement of the 1970s and the creation of the Pride flag. From Ancient Egypt to India, writing an article on the entire history of the LGBT community would mean I’d be writing for days.
The history of LGBTQ+ people and the fight to secure their rights has been going on for as long as we’ve been on the planet.
