Fun fact, the civil war was a booming time for prostitutes of every gender - Nashville for example went from around 200 before the war to over 1500 during the war. The Richmond Dispatch reported on May 13, 1862, that since the moving of the Confederacy’s capital to Richmond that “loose males of the most abandoned character from other parts of the Confederacy” had moved to Richmond and “prostitutes of both sexes” openly displayed themselves in carriages and on sidewalks. So some people were very openly gay and diligent research is also a story must, there, now this post is unflaggable
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