‘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. 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.

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

(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. 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.

(In the early 2000s, rtoratn work on Apethorpe Palace revealed a secret passageway nnectg Jam’ and Villiers’ bedchambers.)“To the shock of many urtiers, the pair were monstratively affectnate to each other public, spe Jam’ var proclamatns agast homosexualy,” Daniel Smh wrote “Love Letters of Kgs and Queens.”A popular epigram at the time pared the Jabean monarch to his Tudor precsor, Elizabeth I, clarg, “Elizabeth was Kg, now Jam is Queen.” Contemporary poet Théophile Vi put more bluntly: “It is well known that the kg of England f---- the De of Buckgham.”Fendg off claims of favorism, Jam proclaimed, “You may be sure that I love the Earl of Buckgham more than anyone else.” “I wish … to not to have thought to be a fect,” he add, “for J Christ did the same, and therefore I nnot be blamed. “The Favoure,” a somewhat fictnalized 2018 acunt of Anne’s relatnships wh Sarah and Abigail — plete wh lbian liaisons — earned Olivia Colman a bt actrs Osr as the nflicted queen.Frerick the Great of Pssia (1712 - 1786)Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his ath.Two years after the kg’s ath, his physician Johann Ge Rter von Zimmermann published a book which he sperately tried to dispel gossip Frerick had a “Grecian taste love.” In “Frerick the Great: Kg of Pssia,” T.C.W.

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

And rather than let that secret out, Frerick pretend to be gay, “so that he would ntue to appear virile and pable of sexual terurse, albe wh men.”But Frerick’s proclivi were apparent at a young age: As a 16-year-old crown prce, he was ught havg an affair wh a 17-year-old page.

But he did ltle to obscure his sexualy: Sanssouci, his palace Potsdam, was filled wh homoerotic art and, across Europe, “l Potsdamists” beme slang for homosexuals.The kg allegedly pursued the Veian philosopher Franc Algarotti and even famed French philosopher Voltaire, who lived wh him at Sanssouci, though ’s not certa if eher relatnship was sexual.After Voltaire’s ath 1778, a mancript of his memoir tailg Frerick’s homosexual tennci tail was stolen and published the Netherlands. “The Vienne are very tolerant of sndals imperial and aristocratic circl,” the paper wrote, “but Ludwig Viktor’s affairs proved to be too much even for them.”The archde spent the rt of his life secln at Klsheim Palace near Salzburg, where he died at the age of 76 1919, three years after his brother’s ath and one year after the Atro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved after the end of World War I.Mwanga II of Buganda (1868 - 1903)Discsn of Uganda’s treatment of homosexualy ually settl on Print Yoweri Meveni’s “Kill the Gays” bill, but this 19th century kabaka, or kg, of Buganda allegedly had sexual relatnships wh men along wh his 16 wiv.In 1886, Mwanga II orred the btal torture and aths of dozens of urtiers and pag, wh many burned alive. “I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace,” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported.

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