To celebrate LGBTQ+ history month here in the UK, this episode is dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community worldwide! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎 Historically, the LGBTQ+ community have shared a very special relationship with fashion and as early as the 18th century, fashion and style were central to establishing the identity of emerging gay subcultures. Looking at the history of fashion through a queer lens and exploring the aesthetics and sartorial choices made by LGBTQ+ people, we can see how central these subcultures have been to forming ideas of mainstream fashion. From Charles James to Alexander McQueen, many of the greatest fashion designers of the 20th century have been queer. Originally used as a derogatory term for gay, nowadays, the word Queer has been positively reclaimed and represents so much more, encompassing a multitude of identities from demiboy to non-binary to androgynous. Queer fashion is fashion in its truest form – it is all about the clothing, the individual body which inhabits it and the message of identity which it comes to represent. Please follow @fashionandwithscottschiavone on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/fashionandwithscottschiavone/) and don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to Fashion &… with Scott Schiavone, Fashion Curator. Also for more information on LGBTQ+ History Months visit: UK - https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk USA - https://lgbthistorymonth.com ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎 #lgbtq #lgbtqpride #fashion #queerfashion #fashionhistory #fashionhistorian #fashioncurator #lgbtqhistory #lgbthistorymonth #pride #queerhistory #queer #gayhistory #trans #translivesmatter