lonelymountainthrush:

i think it’s important to recognize historical lgbpqa+ folks (im cis so i have no say in how trans ppl see their icons) but it’s also kinda messy to push our modern framework for sexual n romantic orientations backwards into history onto ppl who aren’t here to confirm or deny

u can say “this person was not heterosexual” p safely from ppl’s journals n stuff but more specific than that i think it’s rly divisive for ppl to be fighting over whether someone was bisexual or pansexual or homosexual when they aren’t here to be like hey umm…what