‘The kg and his hband’: The gay history of Brish royals - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
• WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE

‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

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.

KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE

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.

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 term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri.)Dong was granted many honors, eventually beg ma manr of the ary, and he and his fay lived si the imperial pound.Acrdg to historian Brent Hsch, many Han emperors reportedly had “male favor” who were listed both the “Book of Han” and the “Shiji,” or “Rerds of the Grand Historian.”“It is not women alone who n e their looks to attract the ey of the ler,” the "Shiji" reads, acrdg to Ban Gu’s “History of Early Cha.” “Courtiers and nuchs n play that game as well.

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 love.The 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.” “This exclivy was a problem when he succeed to the throne, sce was cumbent upon the new liph to produce a male heir.”Dpe mors of havg a male harem, Al-Hakam did marry a Basque ncube named Subh, but reportedly gave her the mascule nickname Jafar.

WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE

Young as “​​the most proment homosexual figure the early morn perd.” Married to Anne of Denmark, Jam is thought to have had relatnships wh several male urtiers — most notably, Gee Villiers, whom he ma the Earl and later the De of Buckgham.