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You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.

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[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dec 31st 1949.

I'm a queer woman, so these sort of time travel questions boil down to preserving as many rights as I can.

[-] timicin@kbin.social 19 points 11 months ago

as a queer brown man; i don't want to be anywhere at all.

why 1949 and where?

[-] livus@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago

You would have been just fine in, say, North or East Africa a few hundred years ago.

I think they picked 49 because it's as modern as they could get within OP's parameters.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 11 months ago

Would fit in with the ancient Greeks

[-] LeafOnTheWind@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Maybe back to like ancient Greece or something?

[-] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 6 points 11 months ago

Where, the U.S.? Seems like there's gotta be other times and places that were more woman- and queer-friendly, right?

[-] Seraph@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

You'd think places like San Francisco would be better, but 20 years later the Stone Wall riots happened. It was pretty rough all around to be gay in that time, though I'm sure some places were worse than others.

[-] timicin@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

fwiw: gay nightlife in san francisco was at its zenith in the 50's & 60's .

the san francisco we have today is a tiny dim more conservative ember of what it was back then.

What is the significance of that date?

[-] EmptyMusic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 11 months ago

Its as close as possible to now before the 50s

Fair enough, though at that point you'd probably get better results if you went further back. The 50s were...really bad.

[-] EmptyMusic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

To be entirely fair I'd probably just โšก ๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿฟโ€๐Ÿฆฑ โšก myself either way. Not willing to try and survive without my meds.

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I think you would've been fine in the Roman empire during the Pax Romana.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Rome would kinda suck for a woman, especially a queer one.

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