Recently, Sarah Luddgton published a novel Lancelot and the Wolf, wh explic gay sexual ntent pictg Lancelot and Arthur as lovers. The book has created a ntroversy and even hate mail to Luddgton and her publishers. In rponse, she has created a special Kdle edn at Amazon, for sale for $3.00, to raise funds to…
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GAY ARTHURIANA
Gay arthuriana (82 books),. gay arthuriana. 's a retellg of arthurian legend, but 's lgbtplease only add books which are a) gay and b) directly feature characters om arthurian legend (& 's them who are gay).
Gay Knights and Horny Hero: Tal om the Court of Kg Arthur. Posted Arthurian Books, Guevere, Lancelot, Merl, tagged Chretien Troy, Eleanor Clare, gay Arthurian novels, Geofey of Monmouth, homosexualy the Arthurian Tradn, Lancelot and Kg Arthur have sex, Lancelot and the Sword, Lancelot and the Wolf, Malory, Merl's dghter, Stephenie Meyer, Stonewall, San Higgbotham, Tali, Twilight on October 5, 2012|. I read the “Special Edn” of Lancelot and the Wolf which clud two extra stori and a novella , which left me wonrg jt how many gay men lived Camelot—seems like a lot to me.
If you are lookg for gay Arthuriana, you might be more likely to enjoy , but ’s still a 3 star book.
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That said, if you buy , buy the special edn Kdle versn for $3 bee the proceeds go to Stonewall to fight gay discrimatn. The greatt strength of this book is Luddgton’s willgns and urage to wre a gay Arthurian novel.
The Gay Arthurian Tradn. Posted Arthurian Books, Kg Arthur on TV, Lancelot, Merl, Mordred, tagged Aubrey Beardsley, homosexualy the Arthurian Tradn, Lancelot and the Wolf, Merl, Merthur, Mordred Bastard Son, Sarah Luddgton, T. Recently, Sarah Luddgton published a novel Lancelot and the Wolf, wh explic gay sexual ntent pictg Lancelot and Arthur as lovers.
The Arthurian love triangle of Arthur/Guevere/Lancelot has always had a ht of homoerotism —and romantic feelgs between Lancelot and Arthur seem a reasonable reason to many for why Arthur would not do anythg about his bt iend sleepg wh his wife. Luddgton may be the first one overtly to pict a homosexual relatnship between Arthur and Lancelot, but the possibili have been implied or suggted numero Arthurian works, pecially the twentieth century.
THE REAL KG ARTHUR WAS GAY
Even as far back as Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, there are homoerotic hts cross-drsg scen and a scene where two knights accintally end up bed together. Dorsey Armstrong’s Genr and the Chivalric Communy Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur has explored this topic and how the knights of Camelot themselv are aware of the possibily of homosexual mors surroundg a group of men an anizatn like the Round Table.
Beardsley, who may have been homosexual or asexual, was known for his androgyno lookg characters his Arthurian illtratns, and for very erotic works, plete wh enlarged genalia, other works not geared toward children. Whe was himself later treated at the end of his life for his own homosexualy.
But Whe and Bradley only ht at homosexualy.