Queer as Folklore av Sacha Coward

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<p>''One delight after another. Told with an open heart, a questing curiosity, and a healthy sense of mischief, Queer as Folklore is essential for every seeker of hidden histories'' <strong>Patrick Ness, author of the ''Chaos Walking'' series</strong></p><p><strong><em>Queer as Folklore</em> 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.</strong></p><p>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; b