The B stands for badass

and beginnings

In honor of LGBTQ+ history month, I wanted to share a little bit about unsung queero Julie D'Aubigny (aka La Maupin), a 17th-century bisexual French badass. She was a fencing master, who killed or wounded multiple men in duels, while also maintaining a high-profile opera career, and who once took the Holy Orders so that she could rescue a lover, who’d r…