‘Don’t Say Gay’ rules and book bans might have felt familiar in medieval Europe − but queer themes in literature survived nonetheless
The Conversation • Material written by or about LGBTQ+ people is often at the heart of book challenges and legislation.
(Pedro Berruguete | Museo del Prado via Wikimedia Commons) Books whose ideas ran afoul of official church doctrine were sometimes cast into the flames – and literature with queer themes was no stranger to scrutiny.