Why Some Flowers are Associated with The Gays

#sponsored Be kind to yourself this year. Using Zocdoc is FREE - visit https://zocdoc.com/kazrowe to find and instantly book an appointment with a top-rated, in-network doctor today. Certain flowers such as lavender, violets and pansies have been associated with gay people for long over a century. But where did these associations even come from? Come learn with me about a colorful, queer history of flowers. ~~~~~~~~~~ Care for Gaza: https://x.com/careforgaza?lang=en Donate to the PCRF: https://www.pcrf.net/ Buy my graphic novel, Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun: https://www.kazrowe.com/comics/cahun https://shop.getty.edu/products/liber... Find me on Twitter:   / kazrowe   I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG:   / kaz.rowe   Buy my comics: https://gumroad.com/kazrowe Send me a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A347K4X Captioning by Transcription, Ho! Captioning Services Filmed using: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k– https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod... Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR – https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod... Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro– https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc... Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb– https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sources: Queer Futures, Violet Futures: Queer Modernity Symbolism of Violet in West Culture by Dr Kévin Bideaux Queer Flowers: Queer Erotics, Mourning, and Utopias in the Art of Flowers from the 1920s to the 1980s by Wenzhe Li Petals and Pride: A Botanical History of Queer Expression by Sarah O. Kowal A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-siècle Art by Alison Mairi Syme Four Flowering Plants That Have Been Decidedly Queered by Sarah Prager for JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/four-flowerin... “Still in Her Eye The Violets Lie:” Queerness, Flowers, and Self-Expression in the 19th Century by Emma Frank for Telfair Museums https://www.telfair.org/article/still... "Rose-and-Lavender Pages" : Floral Queerness in New Englandly Short-Form Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century by H. J. E. Champion Poppies, scarlet flowers, ‘this beauty’: H.D.’s Choruses from the Iphigeneia in Aulis and the First World War by Miranda Hickman Hyacinths and Narcissi: The Flowers of Uranian Poetry from Decadence to Modernism By Paola di Gennaro Gay LA: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by George Chauncey When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750 by Thomas A. King