The tragic but te story of England's gay kg. Edward II loved fiercely but lost everythg.
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY: ALL THE KGS AND QUEENS WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY LGBTQ+
- THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
GAY HISTORY: ALL THE KGS AND QUEENS WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY LGBTQ+
For much of history, LGBTQ+ royalty need to hi their inti. Even though some societi embraced homosexualy, most refed to accept a gay monarch. But before we talk about LGBTQ+ kgs and queens, let's start wh the history of sexual inty. The terms heterosexual and homosexual didn't exist until the 1860s. And until the 1930s, heterosexual meant an abnormal… * gay king in history *
But while the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been dog so unofficially. (The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri.)Dong was granted many honors, eventually beg ma manr of the ary, and he and his fay lived si the imperial pound.Acrdg to historian Brent Hsch, many Han emperors reportedly had “male favor” who were listed both the “Book of Han” and the “Shiji,” or “Rerds of the Grand Historian.”“It is not women alone who n e their looks to attract the ey of the ler,” the "Shiji" reads, acrdg to Ban Gu’s “History of Early Cha.” “Courtiers and nuchs n play that game as well.
THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG
The liph’s sexualy has been the source of some bate: Acrdg to the French medievalist Évariste Lévi-Provençal, the phrase “hubb al-walad,” found 16th-century historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari’s pendium "Nafh at-Tib" reference to Al-Hakam II, translat as a “preference for boys,” though other scholars mata refers to paternal love.The Medieval Europe scholar Francis Prado-Vilar wrote that knowledge of Al-Hakam’s homosexualy the urt of Córdoba “enuraged the ambns of the factns gathered around his much younger brother, Prce al-Mughira.”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual,” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa.” “This exclivy was a problem when he succeed to the throne, sce was cumbent upon the new liph to produce a male heir.”Dpe mors of havg a male harem, Al-Hakam did marry a Basque ncube named Subh, but reportedly gave her the mascule nickname Jafar.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
Young as “the most proment homosexual figure the early morn perd.” Married to Anne of Denmark, Jam is thought to have had relatnships wh several male urtiers — most notably, Gee Villiers, whom he ma the Earl and later the De of Buckgham.