Known as one of the greatest Navajo medicine men, Hosteen Klah was a master weaver and ceremonial singer. As a nádleehi person, he inhabited the societal role of “one who transforms” or “one who is changed”, combining the traditional masculine and feminine traits. His legacy remains in the many weavings he created, the people whose lives he touched, and the museum he helped form in Santa Fe.
Making Queer History has a vague title because it has a rather vague purpose. We are not alone in our aim to tell the queer community’s history. What defines us is our focus not only on the past, but toward the future.