Well, it's Pride Month in the US (in lots of other countries, it's in August). The National Genealogical Society has a great blog post about resources for researching our ancestors who did not conform to gender or sexual orientation norms, and therefore were often under-represented or hidden in records. Here is their post, with a great list of resources to get started or to deepen research. Even just familiarizing ourselves with these can raise awareness of when we might be coming across someone in a family tree whom we would today consider LGBTQI. Watch out in records, obituaries, etc for coded language about non-hetero relationships, and for alternate names that someone might have used to camouflage or protect themselves from community or family ostracism.
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