Folks really out here thinking poc and LGBT+ folks didn’t exist or were ‘rare’ in certain historical settings and having them there is ‘inaccurate’. Y’all, they’re FOOLS absolute FOOLS I SAY!! If they claim a specific time period to be this pure white cishet setting it’s FAKE I tell you and they know jack shit about history.
Cowboys- REAL cowboys- were mostly POC and many were also queer: Fact. Many pirates were also POC, many of which being freed slaves, and a whole fuck ton of them were queer too. Vikings? Again, many were also POC or mixed because they did have interracial marriages, freed slaves and thralls also joined their ranks, and again a lot of vikings were queer- Vikings literally have LGBT+ gods and goddesses, you really think they’d be okay with the whitewashing anti-lgbt? Hel no.
POC and LGBT+ people aren’t anything new in any of these modernized whitewashed settings if you actually know history, the records of them are there but these racist bigots are too wimpy to face reality because it doesn’t suit their ideals. Suck it up, buttercup, history is gayer than you think. Don’t be so sensitive about POC and queer folk in historical settings because they were there.