PROFILE WILLIAM OF ORANGE Gay rights activists Northern Ireland ma the shockg (to some) claim that Kg Billy was gay, …
Contents:
- 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS KG WILLIAM
- AMERI MAY HAVE HAD A GAY PRINT AND HE MAY HAVE HAD A PARTNER OM ALABAMA
5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
Many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret. * king william gay *
LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - From “kgs who were queens” to lbian lawmakers and reformist ernments, Bra’s history is awash wh LGBT+ characters - and tourists want to know about Bra marks LGBT History Month, s parliament has creased the number of tours dited to the hidn history of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr liv rponse to unprecented mand.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS KG WILLIAM
Wtmster Hall, which dat back to 1097, was probably “built by a gay man and refurbished by a bisexual (man)”, acrdg to the time of Kg William II, the third son of William the Conqueror, Wtmster Hall was unl, allowg the dark to cloak “all sorts of thgs”, Spencer said. William Ruf, as the kg who reigned om 1087 to 1100 was also known for his red hair, was attend by “a flock of (male) harlots actg an effemate way”, he and after the English parliament was first nvened 1215, numero kgs and queens were acced of homosexualy, most notorly Edward II, who reigned for almost 20 years om was the “playboy prce”, Spencer said, known for his close relatnship wh urtier Piers history rerds other, perhaps more unexpected, royal LGBT+ characters om the past.
Parliament saw a flurry of LGBT+ reforms followg the electn of Tony Blair as prime mister equal age of nsent at 16 for both gay and straight men and a repeal of the ban on LGBT+ people servg the armed forc was followed by gay marriage unr the premiership of David Cameron.
One of the protagonists, Henry Fox-Mounchristen-Wdsor (played by Crella’s Nicholas Galze), is gay. William II, lled "Ruf" for his reddish plexn, never married or fathered children, leadg to speculatn that he was gay. There is signifint evince that he was gay, although historians differ on this pot.
AMERI MAY HAVE HAD A GAY PRINT AND HE MAY HAVE HAD A PARTNER OM ALABAMA
Richard has been portrayed equently on stage and film; The Ln Wter (1968), which he was played by Anthony Hopks, strongly suggted he was gay, while Sean Connery offered a thoroughly heterosexual pictn Rob Hood: Prce of Thiev (1991) urty Natnal Portra Gallery of London.
Many historians believe Edward II, kg om 1307 to 1327, was gay or bisexual. Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II picts the kg as gay, and Derek Jarman ma a stunng and explic film based on the play urty Natnal Portra Gallery of London. Fundamentalist Christians often pot to the Kg Jam Versn of the Bible as the five edn, but do they stop to thk was missned and overseen by a man who was likely gay or bi?
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.