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• QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED
• QUEEN VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?QUEEN | GAY |AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN QUEEN AND GAYIS THAT QUEEN IS A FEMALE MONARCH. EXAMPLE: QUEEN VICTORIAGAY IS A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS VERBS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN QUEEN AND GAYIS THAT QUEEN IS TO MAKE A QUEEN WHILE GAY IS TO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.AS PROPER NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN QUEEN AND GAYIS THAT QUEEN IS A TLE GIVEN TO QUEENS WHILE GAY IS {{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS AN ADJECTIVE GAY ISHAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.QUEEN

QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED

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 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 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.

)“To the shock of many urtiers, the pair were monstratively affectnate to each other public, spe Jam’ var proclamatns agast homosexualy, ” Daniel Smh wrote “Love Letters of Kgs and Queens. Frerick the Great of Pssia (1712 - 1786)Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his years after the kg’s ath, his physician Johann Ge Rter von Zimmermann published a book which he sperately tried to dispel gossip Frerick had a “Grecian taste love. And rather than let that secret out, Frerick pretend to be gay, “so that he would ntue to appear virile and pable of sexual terurse, albe wh men.

QUEEN VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?QUEEN | GAY |AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN QUEEN AND GAYIS THAT QUEEN IS A FEMALE MONARCH. EXAMPLE: QUEEN VICTORIAGAY IS A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS VERBS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN QUEEN AND GAYIS THAT QUEEN IS TO MAKE A QUEEN WHILE GAY IS TO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.AS PROPER NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN QUEEN AND GAYIS THAT QUEEN IS A TLE GIVEN TO QUEENS WHILE GAY IS {{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS AN ADJECTIVE GAY ISHAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.QUEEN

But he did ltle to obscure his sexualy: Sanssouci, his palace Potsdam, was filled wh homoerotic art and, across Europe, “l Potsdamists” beme slang for kg allegedly pursued the Veian philosopher Franc Algarotti and even famed French philosopher Voltaire, who lived wh him at Sanssouci, though ’s not certa if eher relatnship was Voltaire’s ath 1778, a mancript of his memoir tailg Frerick’s homosexual tennci tail was stolen and published the Netherlands. ”The archde spent the rt of his life secln at Klsheim Palace near Salzburg, where he died at the age of 76 1919, three years after his brother’s ath and one year after the Atro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved after the end of World War II of Buganda (1868 - 1903)Discsn of Uganda’s treatment of homosexualy ually settl on Print Yoweri Meveni’s “Kill the Gays” bill, but this 19th century kabaka, or kg, of Buganda allegedly had sexual relatnships wh men along wh his 16 1886, Mwanga II orred the btal torture and aths of dozens of urtiers and pag, wh many burned alive. “I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported.

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"It was a very empowerg procs for to tell their story, " actor Sam Clemmett says of brgg to life the first gay romance the world of Bridgerton. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, which is now streamg on Netflix, fally giv LGBTQ+ fans what they've been yearng for the world of the ton — a gay romance.