Queer Love and The Victorian Era

It would be misguided to think that everything before the Stonewall Riots was oppression when it comes to queer history. A collection of more than 100 love letters from the late 1800s and early 1900s between former First Lady Rose Cleveland, the sister of President Grover Cleveland, and the love of her life, Minnesota’s Evangeline Simpson Whipple, tells the story of two women who defied the odds to end up together.
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