Would be improved by more explicit comment on what for you would count as enough evidence and using primary sources.
(That isn't a coded way of saying you're wrong.)
There are plenty of comprehensive histories of queerness. ESR just won't read or believe any of them.
I’m emphasizing primary sources because this is one of many, many areas where contemporary scholarship is severely corrupted by politics; it is probably no longer possible to achieve tenure at a major American university after giving offense to the homosexual-activist lobby.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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