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  "path": "/2026/03/23/queer-gay-revolutionary-america-colonial-london/",
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    "National",
    "'Founding Feminists' Series",
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    "Religion",
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  "textContent": "The revolutionary era was one of surprising possibilities to express same-sex attraction and gender nonconformity.\n\nAt the time, gender was widely understood not as an inner truth but as a social practice: something one _did_ , not something one _was_. That understanding made gender surprisingly flexible.\n\nIn a moment when LGBTQ+ people are again being told that they do not belong in the nation’s story, Revolutionary America offers a different lesson.\n\n**(This essay is part of the FEMINIST 250: Founding Feminists series, marking the 250th anniversary of America by reclaiming the revolution through the women and gender-expansive people whose ideas, labor and resistance shaped U.S. democracy.)**\n\nThe post Queer Possibilities in Revolutionary America appeared first on Ms. Magazine.",
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