"But that's historically incorrect!"

No, it's not. You just didn't learn all of history. (A.k.a. not all period dramas need to be all-white all-straight etc. and we have the sources to prove it)

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last updated December, 2025

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The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and the Chevalière D'Eon

chevalier Charles de Beaumont d'Éon

Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man

Catalina de Erauso

Queer Budapest, 1873–1961

Anita Kurimay

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe

Gary Ferguson

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Tom Reiss

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War

DeAnne Blanton

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

Svetlana Alexievich

The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis

Harry Henderson

African Europeans: An Untold History

Olivette Otélé

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

Anita Anand

A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor

Joe Starita

The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown

Julia Flynn Siler

House of Swann: Where Slaves Became Queens

Channing Gerard Joseph

Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950

Eli Erlick

Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History

Gretchen Gerzina

Firebird: The Story of Roman

Sergey Fetisov

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

Rachel Hope Cleves

Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868

Farah Jasmine Griffin

A Black Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning History)

C. Riley Snorton

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

C. Riley Snorton

African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan

Thomas Lockley

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Caroline Dodds Pennock

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

Ronald Takaki

Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples

Rodger Streitmatter

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

Miranda Kaufmann

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Sheadra

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I need this for grammar and language too. It I had a dollar for every time someone tried to call the language inappropriate for the setting or age of the characters and was wrong I'd be rich by now.

StorytellerOP

See also: The Tiffany Problem 😄

Sheadra

Yes EXACTLY! In fact I named my newest D&D character Tiffany for JUST that reason.

StorytellerOP

Yesss 😄

Vasilissa

that's such a good idea! thank you for sharing it! 💚

StorytellerOP

Thanks! :) I guess I got tired of having this argument every time a new season of Bridgerton drops :D

lizzyy

Ughhh, that must be tiring, I literally cannot comprehend how they think queerness is a new concept

StorytellerOP

My "favorite" was the Three Musketeers TV show when people lost their minds over Porthos being black. My dear darling sugar bunnies, please google a picture of Alexandre Dumas.

moss-mylk

YES YES YES YES YEs ! i believe White Mughals also touches on this. I love this vein of history

lizzyy

Great list, great title!! No notes🙂‍↕️

displacedcactus

I'm excited to dig into this list!

LeafDragon

This is SO GOOD, bookmarking now!! Can I humbly recommend: They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War byDeAnne Blanton, Lauren M. Cook and The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss as possible candidates? I can’t wait to see what else you add here!