@MerlinJStar@weirder.earth

Not to nitpick terribly, but I see queerness as a somewhat modern lens, and as a western invention that arose out of imposed heteronormativity in that region starting around the mid to late 1800s.

Genders outside of a binary and love outside of western heteronormativity have been all over the world for a really long time, but I worry that calling them queer erases that local history and replaces it with western queer history. A kind of a whitewashing or maybe a rainbow-washing, as it were?

A case where this seems relevant might be some femme-centered trans, drag, or cross-dressing communities in Thailand insisting that their members are masculine, but western queer culture would likely say that they are binary women, and only that. Both groups are probably making the decisions they are because it helps them fit into their local cultures most smoothly and safely. It took me a bit before I was like "oh, right. I've never been to Thailand, who am I to call these people who are obviously doing cool things with gender transphobic?"

Anyways, if you're into gay history, you might like this video where Xiran Jay Zhao discusses bisexuality in ancient China: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tS2VXSroznY .