Nothing like a family trip to Colonial Williamsburg to see the recreation of life in the colonies. Maybe you'll learn to churn butter, or sew clothing, or properly load a musket. What could be missing from this picture?
Well, according to the Virginia Gazette, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation decided that the important missing piece is LGBTQ+ ideology.
Even wholesome family field trips now have a sexual agenda. Colonial Williamsburg showed this when they created a "Gender and Sexuality Diversity Committee" to research LGBT history in the colony.
What this means is researchers scouring the recorded archives to try to find any example that supports their agenda:
While reading through 18th-century historical records, Colonial Williamsburg's Gender and Sexuality Diversity Committee researcher Ren Tolson discovered something telling buried within the hundreds of pages of land requisitions and court filings.
It was a pair of marriage license requests. The document told of an affluent landowning Virginian woman. On her first attempt, she filed a marriage license to be wed to a woman who worked at her post office. It was denied, citing marriages were solely between a man and a woman.
The following day, Tolson said the woman returned, dressed in traditionally male clothing and sporting a short haircut. Her request was approved, granting her the right to marry a woman.
This is the one example given to the Gazette, and it's probably because other examples really don't exist. There's not much more to find in the research. Beth Kelly of Colonial Williamsburg and researcher Ren Tolson explain their "difficulties."
"It is not the easiest topic to find information about because these were very much voices that were hidden that are marginalized, but there is information out there," Kelly said. "And, interestingly enough, it has manifested itself slowly."
According to Tolson, a lot of the language written around LGBTQ persons in colonial America is coded in nature. Additionally, much of the modern-day language did not exist at the time. So, researchers have to identify a new set of terminology and understand it.
Additionally, Tolson said it has been difficult to discover local examples. This is in part because of the numerous courthouse fires that occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries. So, Tolson's research focuses primarily on cases specific to Virginia and Western Europe which heavily influenced colonists.
Or, hear me out, maybe the material is hard to find because it doesn't exist. It might be that small detail that's made the work of these LGBT historians so slow.
Also, this is seriously what the research question is: "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?"
...I think I can give you an answer to that question without having to do years of research.
My hypothesis is that the people of that time determined who was a man and who was a woman THE EXACT SAME WAY ALL OF HUMANITY DETERMINED IT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF HUMAN HISTORY UNTIL ABOUT 5 MINUTES AGO WHEN THE SEXUAL REVOLUTIONARY WACKOS TRIED TO REDEFINE ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.
But these obvious truths won't stop the wokies from ruining absolutely everything by trying to impose modern norms on history.
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