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40 Screenshots Of People Who Are Unaware Of The Existence Of LGBTQ People And It’s Like They’re Living Under A Rock
LGBTQ history dates back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality in ancient civilizations. Ancient Egyptian royal servants Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, who lived c. 2400 BCE, are believed to be the first recorded same-sex couple in history, so you get the perspective.
But many oblivious people refuse to believe that being homosexual, bisexual, queer, and transgender are as old as history itself. In fact, some delusional people would go as far as to think they've spotted actual mistakes in movies, books, and media that speak of LGBTQ existence in the past.
And thanks to the wonderfully colorful corner of reddit “Sappho And Her Friend,” “a sub dedicated to historical and other LGBTQ erasure from academia and other spaces,” we have the cringiest collection of such delusional examples.
The subreddit that, according to its description, is “Mostly humorous but open to serious discussion as well,” was created a year ago and has since gained a 266k-solid fanbase who waste no time to cut the crap.
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#1
That Dad’s Name? Harold
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#2
Saw This On Facebook Today
#3
Yes, Very Heterosexual Indeed.
Kines Tezja 5 years ago
Yeah, as a Pole I can assure you that you can tell the difference even in XIXth century letters.
#4
They Are Lesbians Goddammit
#5
Just A Fan
#7
"But Hey That's Just A Theory"
#8
An Interesting Title
#9
Two Bro-Ets, Chillin In An Apartment
#10
Medical Classmates
#11
His Roommate Is So Nice
#12
Just A Friendly Reminder, The History Books Accidentaly Forgot A Few Pages From Anne's Diary
#14
Just Guys Being Dudes
Víctor Alfonso García Olmo 5 years ago
No way man!!! The ancient greeks were bisexuals. No shame, until the Christianity said it was a capital fault.
#15
Two Very Good Friends
Lily Mae Kitty 5 years ago
ok, this is not actually gay! This is an advertisement for wives. Things were very different in the past. Not everything that looks gay to our modern sensibilities actually is. This was a very common thing to have a pic taken with friends and post to the newspaper in rural areas. It was expensive for one man to do, so he might pose with a brother or friends.
#16
Two Bros Sharing Storage Space
#17
We Must Be Careful Not To Jump To Conclusions
#18
But How Certain Is She?
#19
Greece Wasn't Gay
#20
Such A Wholesome Friendship. But Where Are Their Wives?
#21
Just A Couple Of Cowboys
#22
No, We're Sisters
#23
Hmm, But Who’s Getting Married?
#24
Oh My God They Were Strangers
François Carré 5 years ago
There is too much in that picture for a conservative brain to proceed correctly. Two colored women of two different cultural styles cannot also be lesbians.
#25
Two “Comrades” Naked On The Beach
#26
I Think This Counts (Xena And Gabrielle)
#27
Did I Find One?
#28
"Her Alter Ego"
#29
Lol They’re Married
#30
We're Both Girls
#31
Couldn’t Possibly Speculate What They’re Up To
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Guys, people back then shared beds all the time. There was barely any privacy and servants would often sleep in the same room as their employers and their employers children. A mistress and servant sleeping in the same bed doesn't automatically mean they were a couple. The fact that they embrace is the real clue imo.
#32
I Checked The Comments; And Yeah, She Was Serious
#33
Travelling Buds
#34
A Likely Story
kath morgan 5 years ago
All we can say is that they were close enough that their loved ones thought they’d like to be laid to rest together. I think that’s lovely
#35
Because They're Bi, Harold. Get Over It
#36
This Piece Is Called "Brotherhood Of The Nations" Lmao
#37
I Can't Titles
#38
My Friends Got Engaged This Weekend, A Distant Cousin Chimed In
#39
Like Mother And Daughter
#40
May Have Come Out After Tweeting I Am Non-Binary
#41
Lmao There Are Pride Flags In The Background
If I could I would live under water 5 years ago
"attack on straight People"... Are we getting attacked again, like our whole lives, being judged, discriminated and hated? 🙄🙄
#42
That’s How Long Y’all Been Married Or?
Asy EnderDragon 5 years ago
aww, I'm guessing that's him transitioning. great glow-up if it is.
#43
This Is A Whole Other Level Of Denial
#44
Behold, One Of My Favourite Posts On The Internet Ever
Andrew Bridge 5 years ago
Is it me, or could this be a picture of a bunch of women? I mean there's no clues about sexuality here or am I missing something?
#45
It's Their Nature!
#46
My Mom Was Watching A Preview Ad Thingy Of Say Yes To The Dress With This Couple And She Said Its About A Double Wedding
#47
Now That’s Friendship!
#48
Aww, Such Gal Pals! Absolutely Nothing Gay Here, No Sir!
#49
Guys, Is He Gay... Or Gay?
#50
Did We Watch The Same Film?
François Carré 5 years ago
That movie is awesome indeed but I wonder how they find it "fascinating" while completely missing the point of it being such an obvious lesbian love story. The filmmaker and actresses must have mixed feelings about that kind of compliment.
#51
Literally Misgendered Them In The Article About Their Gender - How??
AlmightyOne 5 years ago
A reminder to us all: respect pronouns. it's the nice and polite thing to do.
#52
Gee, That's A Real Mystery
#53
Which One Of You Is The Man?
#54
The GF And I Went To A Cemetery Today And Saw This. Translation: Serge And Kevin - Friendship Never Dies
#55
Can One Send This Item To This Man? Wears Always A Skirt.
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Cori 5 years ago
I can't wait for the day when 'coming out' is no longer a thing. When I go car shopping and buy a truck instead of a car, I don't have to 'come out' as a truck owner because it's a super boring non issue. 'Cool. You bought a truck. Wanna go grab some pizza?' People's sexuality should be like that.
Eliška Hůlková 5 years ago
Downvote me as you want, but I've always found the idea of life-long platonic friendship, as seen in some historical periods, very touching. It'd be quite a dissapointment if it turned out that ALL these pairs were gay. Nothing against LGBT people, but why we can't have any non-sexual relationships?
Aliquid A 5 years ago
That's a legit comment. Guys should be able to have a "bromance" without people assuming they are gay, and gay couples should be able to have a romance, without people pretending they are straight.
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• Lemønchu • 5 years ago
In the old English dub of Sailor Moon, there's a lesbian couple. So instead of making them lesbian... THEY MADE THEM COUSINS. THEY MADE A F*****G LESBIAN COUPLE COUSINS. So you have "cousins" flirting and holding hands...
juice 5 years ago
Russia tried to censor Ruby and Sapphire from Steven Universe. they edited a mustache onto Ruby and tried to make her a dude...but Rebecca Sugar got back at them in the best way 05c723be99...1515a5.jpg 
Suzy the observer 5 years ago
I cannot wait for the day when we say "couple' instead of "mix-race-trans-lesbian-couple" (just an example). People should have the safe space to just be without the need for explanations or categorizing. The terms "outing" and "coming out" should not even exist. Whatever happens between two consenting adult humans is no one else's business. Let people live peacefully and authentically.
Don't Look 5 years ago
Ah, labeling. The government loves it (because without it they don’t know how to categorize and collect) and therefore all the public workers have to live it. Makes everything rational people want to go with antisocietal.
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Random Anon 5 years ago
I guess people still want to live in denial. Homosexuality is nothing new. It's been around since the dawn of time. It's even prevalent in the animal kingdom so I never understood the sanctimonious decadent human against-natural spiel through out history.
Cian Thomas McHugh 5 years ago
And as well as that, LIVING PAST 30 is against nature.
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Cosmetica Solist 5 years ago
My brothers longtime best friend is gay. They lived together for 5 years and does everything together. In this case it's the opposite: people are always like "sure they're 'just friends'" *wink wink goofy smile. But my my brother is a grown ass man completely secure and comfortable in his gender and sexuality (straight). He comes from a family where our dad has always openly poly-amorous, our sister openly gay, and of course, he has a gay best friend that his entire family adores. If he was gay, bi or anything else, he would just be it. But for some reason some people can't wrap their heads around a healthy, loving, and supportive male friendship. This is also really sad to me.
Dodo 5 years ago
I love the idea of healthy, loving, supportive friendships, whatever your sex/gender. And I hate when people are like 'this person died without ever getting married, they were obviously gay'. Wrt this article though, a lot of them are totally ignoring the obvious.
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Dobby The House Elf 5 years ago
Random person in history: says or does something that clearly shows they are gay/lesbian/trans+ Historians: GeE i WoNdEr WhAt tHaT cOuLD mEaN
Chodz 5 years ago
As a gay man I loathe the term LGBTQI+. Being gay has nothing in common with gender identity politics. LGB and the rest should go separate ways.
Parmeisan 5 years ago
But the two groups have been interconnected from waaay back (if I recall my history correctly, it started as gay men + transgendered activists around the time of Stonewall). It's the same fight (to be legally and socially recognized as equal) - why would you feel the need to separate yourself from the non-gender-conforming folk?
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Jay Weigel 5 years ago
Sometimes you just want to bang someone's head against the nearest wall......
Logic and Reason 5 years ago
I didn’t really see an issue with the ones talking about friendship. When they say ‘oh what great friends you are’, I hope that’s the case. It would be pretty awful if you weren’t friends with your SO.
she/they and probably gay 5 years ago
https://twitter.com/KellyWatsonTX, so i dont have a twitter account but i found her, omg shes so stupid
Maya Kuntz 5 years ago
I see her posts about there being no gay animals and I'm thinking about the gay penguins on here and the story about the first time scientists found octopuses(?) mating in the wild it was two males.
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Stella 5 years ago
Our interpretation of history really needs to get detached from our own cultural framework. It's about time different sexualities are being acknowledged! That being said, just because that framework is more progressive, doesn't make it magically the right one to explain all historical events. Maybe people were gay, maybe people were less prude in hanging out with others naked. Maybe people were trans, maybe they had to hide their gender because of time period's gender norms. Everyone loves talking about how gay the Greeks were but don't mention the enormous cultural gap between their execution of homosexuality and ours.
L Johnson 3 years ago
People need to realize, you love who you love. You don't need to "come out" to anyone. I am straight, but I have tons of gay friends. I embrace them in public, I kiss them in public, I love them in public. I know I am straight but I don't need to explain to anyone what I do. That is MY LIFE. Don't assume. And all the Bible thumper, the passage " suffer the children come to me" does not have a sentence behind it saying "except for...". We are the human race, not the gay race, black race, white race...we all need to let people be who they are, love who they want. We all deserve to love and be loved. If I love my cats, is there a question that my love is odd? Be who you are, these rest of the naysayers be damned. That's their problem.
Polina Dimentbarg 5 years ago
Shakespeare sonnet 18. It was written for a guy. It's so painfully obvious a love poem, yet in school they say it was written in a friendly way and nothing more. I wouldn't go comparing my friends' beauty to a summer's day :/
alloutbikes@yahoo.com 4 years ago
Why is it a thing? As a straight 58 yo woman, I have never found the need to walk up to a group of people and state I am heterosexual. Only when approached by a lady wanting to go out with me did I find it necessary. And maybe the opposite when approached by creepy dudes.
Cori 5 years ago
I can't wait for the day when 'coming out' is no longer a thing. When I go car shopping and buy a truck instead of a car, I don't have to 'come out' as a truck owner because it's a super boring non issue. 'Cool. You bought a truck. Wanna go grab some pizza?' People's sexuality should be like that.
Eliška Hůlková 5 years ago
Downvote me as you want, but I've always found the idea of life-long platonic friendship, as seen in some historical periods, very touching. It'd be quite a dissapointment if it turned out that ALL these pairs were gay. Nothing against LGBT people, but why we can't have any non-sexual relationships?
Aliquid A 5 years ago
That's a legit comment. Guys should be able to have a "bromance" without people assuming they are gay, and gay couples should be able to have a romance, without people pretending they are straight.
Load More Replies... • Lemønchu • 5 years ago
In the old English dub of Sailor Moon, there's a lesbian couple. So instead of making them lesbian... THEY MADE THEM COUSINS. THEY MADE A F*****G LESBIAN COUPLE COUSINS. So you have "cousins" flirting and holding hands...
juice 5 years ago
Russia tried to censor Ruby and Sapphire from Steven Universe. they edited a mustache onto Ruby and tried to make her a dude...but Rebecca Sugar got back at them in the best way 05c723be99...1515a5.jpg
Suzy the observer 5 years ago
I cannot wait for the day when we say "couple' instead of "mix-race-trans-lesbian-couple" (just an example). People should have the safe space to just be without the need for explanations or categorizing. The terms "outing" and "coming out" should not even exist. Whatever happens between two consenting adult humans is no one else's business. Let people live peacefully and authentically.
Don't Look 5 years ago
Ah, labeling. The government loves it (because without it they don’t know how to categorize and collect) and therefore all the public workers have to live it. Makes everything rational people want to go with antisocietal.
Load More Replies... Random Anon 5 years ago
I guess people still want to live in denial. Homosexuality is nothing new. It's been around since the dawn of time. It's even prevalent in the animal kingdom so I never understood the sanctimonious decadent human against-natural spiel through out history.
Cian Thomas McHugh 5 years ago
And as well as that, LIVING PAST 30 is against nature.
Load More Replies... Cosmetica Solist 5 years ago
My brothers longtime best friend is gay. They lived together for 5 years and does everything together. In this case it's the opposite: people are always like "sure they're 'just friends'" *wink wink goofy smile. But my my brother is a grown ass man completely secure and comfortable in his gender and sexuality (straight). He comes from a family where our dad has always openly poly-amorous, our sister openly gay, and of course, he has a gay best friend that his entire family adores. If he was gay, bi or anything else, he would just be it. But for some reason some people can't wrap their heads around a healthy, loving, and supportive male friendship. This is also really sad to me.
Dodo 5 years ago
I love the idea of healthy, loving, supportive friendships, whatever your sex/gender. And I hate when people are like 'this person died without ever getting married, they were obviously gay'. Wrt this article though, a lot of them are totally ignoring the obvious.
Load More Replies... Dobby The House Elf 5 years ago
Random person in history: says or does something that clearly shows they are gay/lesbian/trans+ Historians: GeE i WoNdEr WhAt tHaT cOuLD mEaN
Chodz 5 years ago
As a gay man I loathe the term LGBTQI+. Being gay has nothing in common with gender identity politics. LGB and the rest should go separate ways.
Parmeisan 5 years ago
But the two groups have been interconnected from waaay back (if I recall my history correctly, it started as gay men + transgendered activists around the time of Stonewall). It's the same fight (to be legally and socially recognized as equal) - why would you feel the need to separate yourself from the non-gender-conforming folk?
Load More Replies... Jay Weigel 5 years ago
Sometimes you just want to bang someone's head against the nearest wall......
Logic and Reason 5 years ago
I didn’t really see an issue with the ones talking about friendship. When they say ‘oh what great friends you are’, I hope that’s the case. It would be pretty awful if you weren’t friends with your SO.
she/they and probably gay 5 years ago
https://twitter.com/KellyWatsonTX, so i dont have a twitter account but i found her, omg shes so stupid
Maya Kuntz 5 years ago
I see her posts about there being no gay animals and I'm thinking about the gay penguins on here and the story about the first time scientists found octopuses(?) mating in the wild it was two males.
Load More Replies... Stella 5 years ago
Our interpretation of history really needs to get detached from our own cultural framework. It's about time different sexualities are being acknowledged! That being said, just because that framework is more progressive, doesn't make it magically the right one to explain all historical events. Maybe people were gay, maybe people were less prude in hanging out with others naked. Maybe people were trans, maybe they had to hide their gender because of time period's gender norms. Everyone loves talking about how gay the Greeks were but don't mention the enormous cultural gap between their execution of homosexuality and ours.
L Johnson 3 years ago
People need to realize, you love who you love. You don't need to "come out" to anyone. I am straight, but I have tons of gay friends. I embrace them in public, I kiss them in public, I love them in public. I know I am straight but I don't need to explain to anyone what I do. That is MY LIFE. Don't assume. And all the Bible thumper, the passage " suffer the children come to me" does not have a sentence behind it saying "except for...". We are the human race, not the gay race, black race, white race...we all need to let people be who they are, love who they want. We all deserve to love and be loved. If I love my cats, is there a question that my love is odd? Be who you are, these rest of the naysayers be damned. That's their problem.
Polina Dimentbarg 5 years ago
Shakespeare sonnet 18. It was written for a guy. It's so painfully obvious a love poem, yet in school they say it was written in a friendly way and nothing more. I wouldn't go comparing my friends' beauty to a summer's day :/
alloutbikes@yahoo.com 4 years ago
Why is it a thing? As a straight 58 yo woman, I have never found the need to walk up to a group of people and state I am heterosexual. Only when approached by a lady wanting to go out with me did I find it necessary. And maybe the opposite when approached by creepy dudes.
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