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Podcast: New Books in Gender
Episode: Lee Wind, "No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidden Lives and Secret Loves" (Zest Books, 2021)
Description: Which stories are left out of the history books? Whatâs in the documents omitted from the âofficialâ record? And what happens when we go in search of peopleâs hidden lives?Todayâs book is  No Way, They Were Gay? Hidden Lives and Secret Loves (Zest Books, 2021), by Lee Wind, in which he reminds us that âhistoryâ was crafted by the people who recorded it. And sometimes, those historians were biased against, didnât see, or couldnât even imagine anyone different from themselves. That means that history has often left out the stories of LGBTQIA+ people: men who loved...