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Colonial Williamsburg Begins ‘Reenactments’ About ‘LGBT History In The Colonies’

Luke Rosiak
Colonial Williamsburg Begins ‘Reenactments’ About ‘LGBT History In The Colonies’
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The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which runs a monument to 1700s history in Virginia, has created a “Gender Diversity Committee” to create “programs and reenactments geared toward educating the public on LGBTQ history in the colonies.”

The Virginia Gazette reported that their goal is “piecing together a more complete history of LGBTQ people in colonial times” and that “they have made strides in answering their research question: What is the Western population’s view on sexuality and gender and how did they determine who was a man and who was a woman?”

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