#mallfrith

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Until recently #history was written by straight white male conformists, using a heteronormative calvinist historiography to create a fictional narrative of Great Straight White Men. Queer Torchbearers of history were either heteronormalised, ghosted or maligned. Let’s examine two great Queer Torchbearers of the 1600s - SHAKESPEARE & MALL FRITH The fragmented archives of the openly homosexual playwright Shakespeare (1564-1616) who exposed his sexual relationship with Sir William Herbert (son of his patron Countess of Pembroke) in his famous sonnets dedicated to W.H. & his Jacobean comedies dealing with “gender mobility” were reassembled to create the “fictional socially acceptable Shakespeare” - straight family man & Jacobean Playwright. Despite his prodigious output his death in Stratford in 1616 was barely noted unlike the death of the world’s first Celebrity #transman Mall Frith (born Mary 1584). Frith lived dressed, smoked, worked, acted, & fought as a man. His death in 1659 brought all of London out to mourn as Fleet Street Viaduct (next door to Frith’s famous Mansion) flowed with wine! Yet the archival evidence of Mall Frith’s far more prestigious origins on #aldersgatestreet London & his highly respectable profession as an authorised agent of the “Lords of Court”, #transgender actor, celebrity & royalist hero - whose life was honoured by an impressive marble tomb on #fleetstreet & engraved with a poem by #johnmilton in 1659 was maligned by historians via seedy fictional “biographies” of “Mall-Cupurse” - “moral deviant” & “petty criminal”. It’s time to celebrate the real Mall Frith who embodied the liberties & opportunities of the #baroque & the scientific revolution by defying gender stereotypes with good cheer & bravery! Stay tuned for my biography of Mall Frith - history’s first transgender celebrity coming soon #queertorchbearers #queerhistorymatters #lgbtqia #queerhistory #mallfrith @furiousgoose @markbruce @kreemart @daniellismore (at Mayfair, W1 London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE-RL6cgV8X/?igshid=1qdz4p444bgf1

#history #transman #aldersgatestreet #transgender #fleetstreet #johnmilton #baroque #queertorchbearers #queerhistorymatters #lgbtqia #queerhistory #mallfrith

[tyneoconnell]

Celebrity & Eccentricity emerged during the Rising visibility of women & LGBTQIA Torchbearers from 1603 after the openly gay KingJamesI removed a host of restrictions & #class & gender barriers designed to “keep people in their place & women & LGBTQ+ in the shadows”⚜️By loosening censorship laws, James enabled the rise of #newvoices & #newideas but it was his abolition of ancient Sumptuary Laws which had oppressed people via thousands of laws limiting clothes as a uniform of class & gender. His abolition of ALL sumptuary laws unleashed a host of freedoms triggering the Birth of Fashion as Art for the masses as clothes became a means of expressing ideas & individuality. The leading LGBTQIA Torchbearers such as Shakespeare, trans-actor & activist Mall Frith, Mary Wroth, Mary Herbert, Elizabeth Cary, Sir Francis Bacon became the first #celebrities of the Modern Age from 1603-1642 (Puritans dragged British & Ireland back to medieval thinking & law by abolishing democracy & imposing a Puritan Military Dictatorship) 1660-1840! #lgbtqia #queerhistory #womenshistory #eccentricity #dandy #dandizette #celebrity #fashionasart #shakespeare #mallfrith #marywroth #sirfrancisbacon #kingjamesi (at Mayfair, W1 London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPjFbVCg0K-/?utm_medium=tumblr

#class #newvoices #newideas #celebrities #lgbtqia #queerhistory #womenshistory #eccentricity #dandy #dandizette #celebrity #fashionasart #shakespeare #mallfrith #marywroth #sirfrancisbacon #kingjamesi