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‘Don’t Say Gay’ rules and book bans might have felt familiar in medieval Europe − but queer themes in literature survived nonetheless

  • Written by Jessica Hines, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Whitman College
‘Don’t Say Gay’ rules and book bans might have felt familiar in medieval Europe − but queer themes in literature survived nonethelessBooks whose ideas ran afoul of official church doctrine were sometimes cast into the flames -- and literature with queer themes was no stranger to scrutiny.Pedro Berruguete/Museo del Prado/Wikimedia Commons

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