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Ching Shih and The Story of Gay Pirates
Very little is known about the early life of Ching Shih, there wasn’t much documentation and if there was most of it wasn’t in English.
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Very little is known about the early life of Ching Shih, there wasn’t much documentation and if there was most of it wasn’t in English.
Sylvia Rivera was born in 1951 in New York to a Puerto Rican father and a Venezuelan mother. After her father abandoned her family when
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Henry was born Heinrich Joseph Dittmar on June 29th 1892 in the city of Passau in Bavaria. He later changed his name to “Henry Gerber”.
Barbara Gittings was born in 1932 in Vienna, Austria. Barbara and her siblings attended Catholic schools in Montreal. She was so immersed in Catholicism at
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Audre Lorde was born in New York City on 18th February 1934. As the youngest of three children born to immigrant parents from the West
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