No Way, They Were Gay? by Lee Wind

Author:Lee Wind [Wind, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Young Adult Nonfiction, Young Adults, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Trans, LGBTQIA+, LGBT, #readwoke, #ownvoices, Own Voices, diversity, diverse books, queer, gender non-conforming, nonbinary, history, historical figure, queer history, Two Spirit, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2021-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

As Hatshepsut’s kingship went on, there was a growing problem: her nephew. Cooney explained: “Hatshepsut’s young co-king was almost a man. As the king reached fifteen or sixteen years old, we can imagine that his opinions were not only more forcefully expressed but reasoned and educated. His bearing was manly, no longer boyish. He was probably now taller than his female co-king. . . . It was quickly becoming unseemly for her to stand next to Thutmose III in the senior position during sacred rituals and at court. A woman could outrank a boy but not a man. If she was to continue her dominance in this unequal partnership, something had to change.”

What changed was how Hatshepsut presented her own gender.

Cooney described how for the first five years of Hatshepsut’s reign, Hatshepsut was shown in images “wearing the long dress of a woman and the crown of a king.” By five or six years into her reign, Hatshepsut’s image was progressively masculinized—with wider shoulders and no shirt—but still with feminine breasts. Eventually, images of Hatshepsut showed her with a fully masculine body, with broad shoulders and a male chest.

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