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An invert was a category that combined and collapsed what we think of as being trans, intersex, and gay. It was about not being properly gendered, and assumed it was in your body—that some part of your body was different. It’s a third sex model—America used to run on a third sex model.
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straight people didn’t exist then either, because there was no conception of a sexuality that can be shared by a man and a woman equally. That just wasn’t a thing. It didn’t make any sense to the Victorians. Instead, it was a time of great homo-eroticism and homo-sociality, when men were expected to spend all their time with men, and women were expected to spend all their time with women, write poetry to one another, sleep in the same bed to have physical relationships, which may or may not have been sexual, and may or may not have been erotic, but we’re primary, important, and worth celebrating