Rating: 4 Stars Themes: Non-Fiction, LGBTQ+ Thoughts: 23 Queer individuals span all the way back to 218 with Elagabalus to some people who are still alive. I liked that there was the Queer and There bits in the Introduction to address the attitudes towards Queer people before colonialism spread Christian values across the globe which is something not everyone knows or remembers. The images on the initial page for each person was quite well done and I could guess some from the cover alone. Having a tl;dr on that same page was novel to me but since it’s marketed at teens (which I didn’t realise until I’d already started) it does make sense as a way to speak to them on their level. The text itself is also handled in a way that speaks to teens without infantalising the topic and I’m sure this could be a great book to help Queer teens feel seen/represented in history which the classes skip. Favourite Quote: “Queer history is world history: the stories of every culture from every era. It is ...