Sacha Coward: Queer as Folklore | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781789652147 | Queer as Folklore | The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

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Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new.

Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward will take you on a wild ride through the night from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul’s Drag Race, visiting cross-dressing pirates, radical fairies and the graves of the ‘queerly departed’ along the way. Queer communities have often sought refuge in the shadows, found kinship in the in-between and created safe spaces in underworlds; but these forgotten narratives tell stories of remarkable resilience that deserve to be heard.

Join any Pride march and you are likely to see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads trailing sequins, drag queens wearing mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. But these are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots.

To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past and Queer as Folklore is a celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past and Queer as Folklore is a celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before.

Über den Autor

Sacha Coward is a researcher, historian and public speaker. He has worked in museums and heritage for fifteen years, running tours focused on LGBTQ+ history for museums, cemeteries, archives and cities all around the world. Sacha has featured on a variety of television, radio and podcast shows and written articles on topics as varied as Turing's Law, the rainbow flag, Caravaggio's paintings and Viking burials. Queer as Folklore is Sacha's first book. He lives in Stroud.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Author Notes: Mind Your She’s and Q’s

Introduction: Monsters in the Closet

PART 1: Queer Be Dragons (Magical creatures)

1 A Twist in the Tail

2 Horn of Plenty

3 Radical Faeries

PART 2: Bad Blood (Cursed beings and shapeshifters)

4 Big Bad Wolves

5 Children of the Night

PART 3: Black Magick (The occult and supernatural)

6 Witch- hunts

7 Demon Twinks

8 Queerly Departed

PART 4: The Expanded Universe (Contemporary folklore)

9 Loving the Alien

10 Rum, Bum and Concertina

11 I’m Sorry, Dave

12 Ex- Men

PART 5: And They All Lived Happily Ever After . . .

13 Five Magic Beans

Notes

References

Image Sources

Acknowledgements

Index

Supporters

Author Q&A

A Note on the Type

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Volkskunde
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Völkerkunde
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	XXIV 328 S.
ISBN-13:	9781789652147
ISBN-10:	1789652146
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Coward, Sacha
Hersteller:	Unbound
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	197 x 129 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Sacha Coward
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.09.2025
Gewicht:	0,261 kg

Artikel-ID: 132508713