Andrea Mariana 🏳️🌈
@andreamariana89.bsky.social
Aroace, Historical Fiction author, Queer History researcher/blogger 🌈 rep: Tricia Lawrence at Aevitas Creative Management. #QueerPit Board 2025 🏳️🌈
This Wednesday kicks off Bisexual Awareness Week! 🩷💜💙🌈 So of course, my latest Sub$tack discusses bisexual historical icons - from the Iron Age to the Jazz Age! And much love to all my bi friends this week and always 😍😘 #LGBTQIA #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/bisexual-b...
Bisexual Baddies in History
Remembering some fabulous members of the B Team for Bisexual Awareness Week
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Music history buffs!!! 🎶🎵 This week's 🌈 Queer History 🌈 tale is for you... My latest Sub$tack considers the castrati singers of the Baroque era, and what their superstar lives can tell us about perspectives on gender and identity in history 🎭 andreamariana.substack.com/p/anything-f...
Anything for Art? The Queer World of the Castrati
What do these lost voices of opera tell us about queer identity in history?
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Why are global mythologies so very queer, and does that matter for Queer History? 🕊🌟🌈 This week, I explore why queer themes are so prevalent in myth and how that presence points to a vast, global queer narrative of history. #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/rainbow-ta...
Rainbow Tales: Why Mythology Is So Very Queer
...and why that matters for Queer History!
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As a girl who grew up in East Tennessee, this hurts like hell 😥 Dolly gave so much to millions of people throughout the country, and did so with a genuine love and compassion for the vulnerable that our society desperately needs more of. Rest in peace 🦋🌈🦋🌈🦋🌈🦋
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 3w agoDolly Parton, one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music who was also much cherished for her philanthropy, has died aged 80. Read more: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
What do you do, as an author, when you feel like you've hit a roadblock? 🚧🚫 This is one of the most vulnerable articles I've written: my journey in writing queer 🌈 Historical Fiction, and the "now what?" Advice welcome! 🙏 andreamariana.substack.com/p/explain-yo...
Explain Yourself: Writing My Ace Characters
...and why I’m never walking away from my darlings
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One of the wild things about queer history research is falling headfirst down rabbit holes you never saw coming...🐇🕳 Like I was just dipping my toe into some research on ONE possibly transgender early Christian saint and like there's apparently DOZENS of them 🙃 LFG I guess?
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Hey #WritingCommunity friends! 👋 Yours truly needs some advice/insights 🙃 📚 Specifically - I'm hoping to talk to independent authors who currently have published books out there. Bonus points for anyone in my genre (HistFic) but all welcome 🥰 #BookSky #Authors
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A gay wedding...in Renaissance Italy? 🏳️🌈🇮🇹🤔 This week, I discuss how an attempted Roman gay wedding in 1578 became infamous in Queer History... #LGBTQIA #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-gay-rena...
A Gay Renaissance Wedding
How one of the first recorded "gay marriages" happened in 16th century Rome
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If you've been to Florence, you probably toured its Renaissance sites 🇮🇹🎨 But you may not know that in that period, the city became a literal byword for gay liaisons 👀 In this week's Queer History Sub$tack, I explore Florence's scandalous reputation... andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-italia...
The "Italian Vice": Queer Words in History
How one Renaissance city became a byword for gay liaisons
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It's a Boy? 👶 This week, my Queer History Sub$tack considers a famous myth from the Roman Empire - and its status as a transmasculine tale from antiquity ⚧️ Never heard of Iphis & Ianthe? More below! ⬇️ #BookSky #History #LGBTQIA andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-queer-ro...
A Queer Roman Romance: Iphis and Ianthe
Did Ovid tell the story of a mythological gender transition?
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Is this "history's first known gay couple?" 🧐👬🔍 What does a millennia-old Egyptian tomb tell us about queer history or rather, how we go about "queering" history? My latest Queer History post below! ⬇️🌈📚 #LGBTQIA #BookSky andreamariana.substack.com/p/historys-f...
History's First Gay Couple?
How an Egyptian tomb ignited a queer history firestorm
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I keep a spreadsheet of all the Queer History 🌈📚 topics I want to write about. It grows. And grows. ...which is weirdly depressing because there is just SO MUCH and I never have enough time or energy and I want to share more and more content but damn 🙃 Anyway that's my rant for today.
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So thanks to all the Odyssey 💿🐎 (emphasis on the 🐎 lol), we're all remembering that Greek warrior culture was pretty, um, rainbow colored 🌈⚔️ But Samurai culture was similar - and 🌈 affairs could have deadly outcomes 👀 ⬇️ #BookSky #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA andreamariana.substack.com/p/shoguns-in...
Shoguns in Love: Infamous Gay Affairs Among the Samurai
Queer love among samurai was pervasive - and could be deadly
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This week's Queer History 🌈📚 is a bit more edgy...⚔️ Were gay relationships common among the samurai? 👀 This week's Part 1 post dives into Japan's unique queer stories of the past. #BookSky #LGBT #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/gay-samura...
Gay Samurai? Queer Japanese History, Pt. I
Relationships among these infamous warriors raise as many questions as answers.
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🇺🇸🌈 A special July 4th Queer History story! 🌈🇺🇸 Was a hot-headed German hero of the American Revolution also one of the USA's first LGBT+ icons? 👀 Let's talk about the raging, swearing, indefatigable Baron von Steuben ⚔️🎆🧨 #QueerHistory #BookSky #History andreamariana.com?p=1940
Baron von Steuben: A Gay German in the American Revolution - Andrea Mariana
A hot-headed German general, who rebuilt the Continental Army by force of will, may have been one of the country's first LGBT+ icons.
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"CENTRISTS UNITE!" It's 15 people. 5 of whom aren't even elected yet. All of them in districts trump won. Don't let corporate media - especially media owned by Bezos - convince you the party is somehow fractured by throngs of centrists pushing back. It's not. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
After wins by democratic socialists, centrist Democrats unite to push back
Thirteen Democratic House members and candidates announced their support for an initiative that commits them to centrist principles.
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With the 250th anniversary of American Independence this week (despite presently awful management 😖) my Queer History Substack considers something more cheerful: Queer American icons!!! 🌈 🇺🇸 Read about some of my personal favorites below ⬇️ #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/born-in-th...
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What's in a name - or a label? 👀 One of the hardest aspects of writing about Queer History 🌈 is wrestling with identity, labels and language across time and space. But we should still write the canon of queer history regardless. #BookSky #LGBTQIA andreamariana.substack.com/p/you-cant-s...
Did an excavation in 1880 yield the remains of a fabled army of warrior-lovers? 👀❤️ Part 2 of my Queer History series on the Sacred Band of Thebes! ⚔️🌈 #LGBTQIA #BookSky #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/the-sacred...
The Sacred Band, Pt. II: Legends of Love
How the courage of these queer warrior-lovers immortalized them across millennia
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It's the 1st Sunday of Pride 🌈 and my Queer History Substack returns this week with one of my **favorite** ancient stories! Was the "sacred band" of gay warrior-lovers real? Who were they, and who came up with this idea anyway? 😅 #LGBTQIA #BookSky andreamariana.substack.com/p/queer-love...
(Queer) Love and War: The Sacred Band of Thebes
An infamous band of brothers - or perhaps lovers?
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Happy first Friday of #Pride!! 🌈🥰 Why not roll into the weekend with some ancient Queer History? My latest blogpost considers the "First Gay Couple" found in an Old Kingdom Egyptian tomb - and what they can tell us about "queering history" #BookSky #LGBTQIA #QueerHistory andreamariana.com?p=1927
The Curious Case of the Manicurists - Andrea Mariana
How did a strange tomb from Egypt's Old Kingdom spark a fierce debate on "queering" history, and what can its occupants tell us today?
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🔥 🌈 Hot off the Substack 🌈🔥 I won't lie...this was a tough piece, but I needed to get some of this off my chest. My reflection for Pride: placing this troubled moment in its queer historical context, and how our history shapes how we move forward ➡️ andreamariana.substack.com/p/past-as-pr...
Past as Present: Pride in 2026
The horrors persist - but so do we. Celebrating, commemorating, and continuing the struggle.
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Lucy Anderson's story of defiance, set against the repression of the Lavender Scare, has always amazed me. This week's Queer History 🏳️🌈 Substack shares the second part of her fascinating story ⬇️ #QueerHistory #BookSky #LGBT andreamariana.substack.com/p/what-i-am-...
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✨️ 🌈 Brand new Queer History ✨️ 🌈 This week's post is Part 1 of the story of Lucy Hicks Anderson - a WWII era Black transgender icon and SoCal legend. ⬇️ Check it out! #QueerHistory #BookSky #LGBT andreamariana.substack.com/p/a-black-tr...
🌈 Brand new Queer History 🌈 hot off the Sub$tack for another Sapphic Sunday 🥰 What was a "tribade" and why is this 16th century word part of lesbian history? ⬇️ 🧡🩷🤍 andreamariana.substack.com/p/tribade-qu...
"Tribade": Queer Words in History
What did "tribade" mean? Would you have been a tribade?
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