The tragic but te story of England's gay kg. Edward II loved fiercely but lost everythg.
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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. * britain's gay king *
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. Known as ‘Ruf’ due to his ddy plexn and red hair, the third son of William the Conqueror beme Kg of England 1087 and is assumed to have been gay or bisexual.
The fourth son of Henry II, he is also believed to have been homosexual spe marryg Berengaria of Navarre. 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. 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.
THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG
* britain's gay king *
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. In our md, Edward II is always the gay kg, so we feel some sort of affectn for him jt on that basis.