Beautiful LGBTQ Love Letters from history

Opty · Jan 25, 2015

I follow a website called "Brain Pickings" every now and then because they post some pretty interesting articles. Anyway, I ran across this one today and thought some of the readers of this sub-forum might enjoy it.

It contains sections from love letters exchanged between famous LGBTQ people in history (many of them authors and poets) like Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Oscar Wilde and Sir Alfred Taylor, etc.

As we turn the leaf on a new chapter of modern history that embraces a more inclusive definition of love — both culturally and, at last, politically — here is a celebration of the human heart’s highest capacity through history’s most beautiful and timelessly bewitching LGBTQ love letters.

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/14/greatest-queer-love-letters/

Diana Hignutt · Jan 25, 2015

Thanks for posting this! I'm just sticking this post here so I can come back and read your link once I'm over my mid-divorce, there's-no-such-thing-as-love mood.

Underdawg47 · Jan 25, 2015

Opty said:
I follow a website called "Brain Pickings" every now and then because they post some pretty interesting articles. Anyway, I ran across this one today and thought some of the readers of this sub-forum might enjoy it.

It contains sections from love letters exchanged between famous LGBTQ people in history (many of them authors and poets) like Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Oscar Wilde and Sir Alfred Taylor, etc.

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/14/greatest-queer-love-letters/

They were quite beautiful.

Isobel Lindley · Jan 25, 2015

Thank you for sharing this! Margaret Mead's letters are just gorgeous.

M.N Thorne · Jan 26, 2015

I always loved Vita Sackville-West!

planetzorb · Jun 3, 2015

These are wonderful. Virginia Woolf certainly has a way with words... :heart:

I've shared this link with my friends to cheer us all up a little.

Thanks for posting!

Magnificent Bastard · Jun 3, 2015

Oh dear, how many romantic history fics just sprouted all over my mind.

BenPanced · Jun 3, 2015

I know. When I first read these letters, my thought was PLOT BUNNIES AHOY!

jtrylch13 · Jun 3, 2015

If you don't feel intensely romantic after reading such words, you have no heart. I adored their beauty, the melancholy of their situations, and the quiet triumph of their loves! *sighing & swooning*

Beautiful LGBTQ Love Letters from history

Opty

Diana Hignutt

Very Tired

Underdawg47

Isobel Lindley

writing as Eleanor Beresford

M.N Thorne

planetzorb

Magnificent Bastard

maybe a demon

BenPanced

THE BLUEBERRY QUEEN OF HADES (he/him)

jtrylch13

Has semi-colon; will use it!