#queer history
Egyptian history spans thousands of years and its human landscape throughout has always reflected a unique diversity and a wealth of gender and sexual expressions, as well as racial, cultural and religious identities. With the recent public debate about LGBTQ+ rights and as Pride Month comes to an end, it is more important now than ever to examine Egypt’s queer history. No two figures have cast more doubt on Ancient Egyptian society's heteronormativity than Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, two Egyptian manicurists to…
