There are now....
Williamsburg Gender and Sexual Diversity Research Committee
Actually, the Gender and Sexual PERVERSION research committee.
Classic case of sowing the seeds of your own destruction. At at certain point, Wokeness will decree that the origins of Williamsburg and all that it stands for must be destroyed. The very ones who value its heritage will no longer want to go there and it will go broke or, to make a buck, turn into a shallow shell of its former self, much like Disneyland has done. Pretty sad.
All it takes is one pervert on the board of directors, holding a rainbow flag in one hand and a lawyer’s business card in the other. You try to stop me and I’ll sue you.
America is turning into Amerika one donk at a time.
I took my family to Colonial Williamsburg earlier this year. If someone visited there with no knowledge of American history, one would believe that the most important Founding Father was Sally Hemmings. Books about her dominated the bookstore and the Thomas Jefferson actor there was interrogated about her during Q&A.
Monticello in Charlottersville is another landmark that has been ruined by wokeism.
This should be helpful for colonial gay history research:
Sodomy Case: Creoli Executed, New Netherland, March 25, 1646
“choked to death, and then burnt to ashes”
The New Netherland Colony court sentenced “Jan Creoli, a negro,” for a second “sodomy” offense. The record stated: “this crime being condemned of God...as an abomination, the prisoner is sentenced to be conveyed to the place of public execution, and there choked to death, and then burnt to ashes....” The rationale was cited as Genesis c. 19; Leviticus c. 18: 22, 29. The margin of the court record states: “he was executed at New Haven.”(1)
And on the some date the Calendar lists:
Sentence. Manuel Congo, a lad ten years old, on whom the above abominable crime was committed, to be carried to the place where Creoli is to be executed, tied to a stake, and faggots piled around him, for justice sake, and to be flogged; sentence executed. . . .(2)
BTTT
Virginia’s Republican governor and Trump need to weigh in: abandon woke, or we’ll call for a boycott.
Virginia’s Republican governor and Trump need to weigh in: abandon woke, or we’ll call for a boycott.
Outlawed were masturbation, fornication, adultery, sodomy, buggery, and every other sexual practice that inched off line of straight sex as approved by the Bible. The term "sodomy" was applied to homosexual behavior; "buggery" to bestiality.
Punishment for such serious sexual crimes could be severe. Thomas Granger of Plymouth, a boy of seventeen or so, was indicted in 1642 for buggery "with a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey." Granger was hanged; the animals, for their part in the affair, were executed according to the law, Leviticus 20.15, and "cast into a great and large pit that was digged for the purpose for them, and no use was made of any part of them."
In 1642, Edward Preston was sentenced to be publicly whipped at both Plymouth and Barnstable "for his lewd practices tending to sodomy with Edward Mitchell, and pressing John Keene thereunto (if he would have yielded)." Keene, who had reported the crime, was required to watch the punishment because he was suspected of "not being without fault himself." No death penalty here, since the actions of Preston and Mitchell only "tended toward sodomy."
https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/Foundation/journal/spring03/branks.cfm
Colonial Williamsburg has always been bogus. They’re always peddling some narrative, even if the dominant narrative shifts according to the political climate.
Ping
Dandies?
Though it is easy, today, for sane people to perceive the wild instability of those who have descended into "woke" madness, it is not easy for the "woke". Apparently they cannot perceive the madness into which they have allowed themselves to descend.
I work in Colonial Williamsburg in the early 80’s. Even then it was solidly liberal. Alot of effort was made to project shocking displays, specially in the actors portraying various persons. I left before the craftsperson were turned into actors more than craftsman. Not having been there since, I don’t know how much worst it is now.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! It wasn't Black guys Thomas Jefferson was interested in.
The family and I are regulars at Colonial Williamsburg. They are really desperate when they have to site Ann Lister, a.k.a., Gentleman Jack. She seems to be the goto historical L in LGBT. She was born after the 1783 Treaty of Paris. She never set forth in America.
I visited Colonial Williamsburg a long time ago before all of this. I would like to visit Yorktown which is not far away (my Revolutionary War ancestor was in the Virginia militia at Yorktown). I wonder if the same nonsense pervades Yorktown.