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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. Pedro Berruguete/Museo del Prado/Wikimedia Commons

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

Jessica Hines, Whitman College

Medieval writers and clerics condemned queer romance and gender-bending stories − but were often wary of even mentioning the topics.

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