Indigenous People Literally Laid the Groundwork for Manhattan's Queerest Neighborhood
evanbrechtel.substack.com
Today, October 11, is both Indigenous Peoples Day and National Coming Out Day. Thankfully, it’s become more widely known in recent years that Indigenous cultures, by and large, have shown more acceptance, acknowledgement and even veneration for the expansiveness of gender than the colonizers who violently imposed European Christian morality on the land they took—an imposition that still endangers millions of Queer people worldwide today.
Indigenous People Literally Laid the Groundwork for Manhattan's Queerest Neighborhood
Indigenous People Literally Laid the…
Indigenous People Literally Laid the Groundwork for Manhattan's Queerest Neighborhood
Today, October 11, is both Indigenous Peoples Day and National Coming Out Day. Thankfully, it’s become more widely known in recent years that Indigenous cultures, by and large, have shown more acceptance, acknowledgement and even veneration for the expansiveness of gender than the colonizers who violently imposed European Christian morality on the land they took—an imposition that still endangers millions of Queer people worldwide today.