{"id":687335,"date":"2021-08-26T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=687335"},"modified":"2021-08-26T15:50:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:50:59","slug":"colonial-williamsburg-begins-reenactments-about-lgbt-history-in-the-colonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colonial-williamsburg-begins-reenactments-about-lgbt-history-in-the-colonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Williamsburg Begins \u2018Reenactments\u2019 About \u2018LGBT History In The Colonies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolonial-williamsburg-begins-reenactments-about-lgbt-history-in-the-colonies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=687335&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-113671679-williamsburg.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which runs a monument to 1700s history in Virginia, has created a \u201cGender Diversity Committee\u201d to create \u201cprograms and reenactments geared toward educating the public on LGBTQ history in the colonies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/virginiagazette\/va-vg-cw-lgbtq-history-0727-20210803-cycgcf3x5vgvzaqecjsjhtmsy4-story.html\">Virginia Gazette<\/a> reported that their goal is \u201cpiecing together a more complete history of LGBTQ people in colonial times\u201d and that \u201cthey have made strides in answering their research question: What is the Western population\u2019s view on sexuality and gender and how did they determine who was a man and who was a woman?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Committee researcher Ron Tolson told the paper that LGBT people were more accepted than expected. One woman asked for a marriage license to marry a woman but was denied. The next day she came back with short hair and men\u2019s clothes and the license was granted.<\/p>\n<p>One colonist was born Thomasine in England, but joined the Army as Thomas, and wore both men\u2019s and women\u2019s clothing in Virginia. \u201cA trial ensued and the court ruled Hall was both a man and a woman,\u201d the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>Colonists also read a book called \u201cFanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure,\u201d about the \u201cmultiple romantic relationships of two women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The history museum will soon begin running a play called \u201cLadies of Llangollen,\u201d a \u201ctrue account of a love story between two 18th century women whose relationship garnered the attention of Queen Charlotte.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a lot of people, it\u2019s very hard to know yourself when you don\u2019t know your history and you feel an incomplete form of your own identity,\u201d Tolson said.<\/p>\n<p>The museum and history industry has become gripped with the fever over \u201cdiversity and equity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Latta Plantation, a museum in North Carolina, was \u201cclosed indefinitely\u201d by Mecklenburg County in June after criticism of a program that included stories told from the perspective of a former slavemaster who was \u201con the run\u201d from Yankee troops and living in the woods. \u201cConfederate soldiers who will be heading home express their feelings about the downfall of the Confederacy,\u201d a flyer said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/local\/meck-county-reviewing-ties-with-latta-plantation-after-controversial-event-planned-juneteenth\/N2B33ZRXZZF67AANYHP5QARVX4\/\">WSOC-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Campbell, the museum\u2019s manager, who is black, said he would never glorify the Confederacy and that the media had engaged in a rush to judgment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the masses on social media and politicians, no apology will be given for bringing a unique program to educate the public about former slaves becoming free,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Also this summer, a consultant to the state of Virginia said the early colony\u2019s celebration of America\u2019s 250th birthday in 2026 should not be called a celebration because&nbsp; \u201cFor those who had significant concerns about how inclusive events will be, or that the U.S. hasn\u2019t lived up to its values, the word \u2018celebration\u2019 can appear to be tone-deaf (or worse).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She cited a survey in which one respondent lamented that a celebration of America in 1776 would not have enough \u201cLatinx voices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/americas-250th-birthday-will-be-a-commemoration-not-celebration-in-virginia-because-liberals-dont-think-its-worth-celebrating\">America\u2019s 250th Birthday Will Be A \u2018Commemoration,\u2019 Not \u2018Celebration\u2019 In Virginia Because Leftists Don\u2019t Think It\u2019s Worth Celebrating<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which runs a monument to 1700s history in Virginia, has created a \u201cGender Diversity Committee\u201d to create \u201cprograms and reenactments geared toward educating the public on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}