“What the world owes to LGBTQ+”, Vincy Thomas

French journalist who had lived several years in Montreal, Vincy Thomas portrayed here 30 LGBTQ+personalities. However, From antiquity to the contemporary era. Furthermore, from Sappho to Thomas Jolly, the book “aims to stimulate our memories against forgetting and to get out of ignorance”. To “change a few perspectives”. the author retains destinies as exciting as they are unknown, stories that stage discrimination and courage, but above all the inventiveness of individuals whose contribution to humanity is without “historical” contradiction. We find some more popular figures. such as scientist Alan Turing, writer Virginia Woolf, Rock Hudson actor and tennis player Billie Jean King, but we also discover with fascination the courses of less known people, like the poet Aboo Nouwâs, the doctor James Miranda Barry, the painter Rosa Bonheur and the architect Luis Barragán. Brief. but searched and captivating, the portraits clearly “what world owes lgbtq+”, vincy show that “our past does not only revolve around Caucasian heterosexual men anchored in their territory”.

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