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The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 2, Episode 12: Pride & Prejudice
S02E12: Historical queer love letters and lavender languages past and present.
It’s Pride month! Come along with your queer cohosts and meet Rose Cleveland, a gay First Lady, and Evangeline, the love of her life. Then take a moment to soak in the many languages that helped–and still help–queer people connect with and protect eachother.
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Historical Queer Love Letters:
- A gay first lady? Yes, we’ve already had one, and here are her love letters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/20/she-was-once-first-lady-she-is-buried-next-her-longtime-female-partner/
- Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918: https://www.amazon.com/Precious-Adored-Cleveland-Evangeline-1890-1918/dp/1681341298/
- Rose and Evangeline: https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/Lv-AG2u9MB5JHTyvt37tikS6ez0=/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost/public/DMOIDPTQRFETPFIFREGL7LZWQM.jpg
- Precious and Adored: Reading Victorian Love Letters, Writing Queer History: https://www.autostraddle.com/precious-and-adored-reading-victorian-love-letters-writing-queer-history/
- Forbidden Love: The WW2 letters between two men: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38932955
Lavender Languages:
- American University Article: Lavender Languages: Linguistics and Culture for the LGBTQ Community: https://www.american.edu/cas/news/lavender-languages-linguistics-conference-2014.cfm#:~:text=Lavender%20Languages%20takes%20its%20name,in%20language%20and%20sexuality%20studies
- Lavender Linguistics: the Queer Way to Speak: https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2016/8/17/lavender-linguistics-queer-way-speak
- LGBT Cultural Heritage: Lavender Languages: https://www.lgbtculturalheritage.com/lavenderlanguages
- Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s Polari Bible: https://www.polaribible.org/
- Polari: The Code Language Gay Men Used to Survive: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180212-polari-the-code-language-gay-men-used-to-survive
- Vice Article: A Secret Gay Language Has Gone Mainstream in the Philippines: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7bmb4g/a-secret-gay-language-has-gone-mainstream-in-the-philippine
Further Reading:
- Article on Decidedly Queered Flowers: https://daily.jstor.org/four-flowering-plants-decidedly-queered/
- How Lavender became a symbol of LGBTQ resistance: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lgbtq-lavender-symbolism-pride/index.html
- The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: https://www.thesisters.org/