ALT One of the most striking aspects of gender in cuneiform cultures is the very number of different terms apparently denoting non-binary identities. These include but are not limited to kur-ĝara / kurgarrû, assinnu, saĝ-ursaĝ, gala / kalû, pilipili and kulu’u. However, this list quickly pales in comparison with the abundance of words that have been used to describe one or more of these groups in contemporary scholarship: “homosexual,” “cross dresser,” “bisexuals,” “transvestites,” “hermaphrodite,” “eunuch,” “male cult prostitute,” “effeminate,” catamite,” “berdache,” “corybants,” “man-woman,” “castrated choirboy,” “impotent creatures,” “erotic specialists,” “sexually abnormal creature,” “a sexless, probably self-castrated, being”—and so on

ALT a lively night in the french quarter of new orleans

ALT a brownstone-lined street in brooklyn heights, new york city

ALT greystone townhomes in chicago’s bronzeville neighborhood

ALT a narrow street in philadelphia