Tea bags were first introduced in China as a method for preserving the flavor of tea during the Tang Dynasty in 618-907 A.D. But it wasn’t until the early 20th century that they were distributed commercially and used in place of traditional metal tea infusers.
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Thomas Sullivan, a New York tea merchant who may or may not have been homosexual, began sending samples of his loose leaf teas in silk sachets. Customers mistakenly thought the sachets were supposed to be used in the same way as metal tea infusers, by dropping the entire bag into a cup of boiling water.
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Realizing the genius in his customers’ mistake, Sullivan quickly patented the idea and, thus, it was by sheer happenstance that the modern tea bad came to be.
Scroll down for pictures of tea bagging like you’ve never seen before…
The Traditional Teabag
Photo credit: Anders Adermark
The Dainty Tea Bag
Photo credit: Olivia Townsend
The Prophetic Teabag
Photo credit: MissMessie
The Passive Aggressive Teabag
Photo credit: Matt Stocker
That Poor Teabag
Photo credit: Simon Brass
The Pro-Choice Teabag
Photo credit: Tweetspeak Poetry
The Tag Team Teabag
Photo credit: JimmyMac210
The Broken-Hearted Teabag
Photo credit: Peter Roberts
The That-Was-Fun-We-Should-Do-It-Again-Sometime Teabag
Photo credit: Toshiyuki IMAI
Captain proton
slow news day? why not report on that NC high school where students are now allowed to carry pepper spray into the toilets to protect themselves from any lurking transgenders?
Christopher4
Keep up!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/north-carolina-board-rethinks-allowing-pepper-spray-in-high?utm_term=.dyyQdGBaKX#.tkE67gozaq
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nc-school-official-wants-kids-to-carry-pepper-spray-in-trans-friendly-bathrooms_us_573259a1e4b016f378977bc0
Kangol
@Captain proton: Thank you! This site ignores news that affects LGBTIQ readers, like the h0m0phobic NHL player, or the fact that North Carolina is basically urging people to pepper-spray trans children, but it will devote an entire post to non-gay nonsense like this teabag story, which we could probably glean from Wikipedia or some site posting about historical curiosities.
Other gay news to report: GOP begins harsh backlash against President Obama’s push to allow trans youth to use gender-appropriate bathrooms in public schools across the USA; US Department of HHS issues rules banning any health insurance bias against LGBTQ people; NY City has just released the sketch of the Stonewall Inn rapist; the republication of Jewelle Gomez’s lesbian masterpiece *The Gilda Stories*; International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Coalition (IGLHRC), which does excellent work all over the globe, has just changed its name; REVERb, a new web series about gay men of color in Chicago, debuts on YouTube; the Dominican Republic’s first out gay candidate is running for office; new US gay magazines like *Boy Club*; and on and on.
Bauhaus
@Kangol:
I couldn’t agree with you more, Kangol. As much as I enjoy the frivolity and goofing on here, I’d like to see more important LGBTQ news covered, too.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Let’s talk about how transgenders sabotaged nationwide job and housing protection for gays several years ago and why they continue to be a burden on gays. Let’s talk about how the bathroom war they started now only killed all momentum for gay rights but actually cost us rights in some places. Let’s talk about how we are not responsible for them or for their agenda to force everyone else to call their delusions and lies reality. That’s what I want to talk about.
JessPH
I love teas so I don’t mind this article.
bottom250
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: focus
Kangol
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: The problem is trans people it’s homophobes and transphobes. Why are you siding with oppressors? You can not be “free” and “equal” as a gay person if other people are not free and being treated as equals based on their sexual and gender orientation.
Kangol
The problem is NOT trans people it’s homophobes and transphobes.