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The history of LGBT people has included conscious attempts to erase that history; either by society at large or religious, state or academic thugs, or LGBTs themselves who've wanted to "protect" themselves posthumously, e.g., Walt Whitman's coded/altered diaries, or, even more often, the person's heirs who, when they have not succeeded in destroying records entirely, have sometimes legally blocke…