Many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret.
Contents:
- WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
- RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
- 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
- CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART
WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
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Specifilly, was he gay? My first acquatance wh the gay Richard meme me 1968, urty of a young English nurse om the medil centre at the pany where I worked.
She’d jt seen The Ln Wter and was distrsed by the movie’s unflatterg portra of a homosexual Richard.
The evince advanced for the gay this centr around three ma pots:. Puttg biblil ntext, he believ “highly probable, if not certa” that the reference is to homosexual behavur. That said, Flori cl to characterize Richard as exclively or even predomantly gay.
RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
For the past half-century, Richard the Lnheart - that buff, bronzed warrr who hardly saw his wife and had no children - has been somethg of a gay in. As a prence on the silver screen (most famoly the shape of the young Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter) his homosexualy has rarely been doubt. English history isn't short of gay or bisexual monarchs - Edward II, Jam I, possibly William II - but the historil evince for untg Richard I among their number rts on one ntemporary document ncerng his relatnship wh Kg Philip II of France.
For the past century, Richard the Lnheart has been seen as a gay in leadg the list of Brish LGBTQ+ monarchs alongsi Kg Jam I and Queen Anne of England. Was Richard the Lnheart gay? However, there’s a small piece of historil evince that many historians took as clear proof that Richard the Lnheart was gay.
5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
Other historians have voted their rearch to monstrate that more than the gay in morny has turned Richard the Lnheart to, he was actually a very astute polician who knew perfectly well the l of polics to keep his power and ambns. Now, let’s be clear, this don’t mean he pretend to be gay to make allianc; actually has to do more wh the nventns of the time.
As we talked, the ma evince historians who believe Richard the Lnheart was gay is that extract om Hoven’s chronicl where he stat that Richard and Philip spent some nights together. Now whether he was gay or not, don’t really matter. An art historian disvered a 400-year-old portra of Gee Villiers, the former De of Buckgham who is thought to have been the gay lover of Kg Jam VI and I, the Brish ler om 1567 to 1625 who missned a btsellg book known as The Kg Jam Bible.
Hovn’s bed ment may be more of a polil metaphor than a leral one — polics do make strange bedfellows, after all — but even still, Richard I has long been lnized as a gay in. The plays of both possibly-gay English playwright Christopher Marlowe and totally-gay English playwright Derek Jarman both picted Edward II as gay. Totally gay.
CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART
Centuri before homosexualy was ma legal between nsentg adults 1967, the ‘love that dare not speak s name’ was viewed as a s England, particularly by the church, and technilly punishable by ath. It is not surprisg that many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret.