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

Contents:

• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• FALSE GERMAN PRINCE LIVED A GAY LIFE FOR MANY WEEKS; HARRY DOMELA, SOLDIER AND VAGABOND, RECEIVED HONORS PAID ONLY TO ROYALTY
• IN INDIA, A GAY PRCE’S COMG OUT EARNS ACLAS, AND ENEMI
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

The Queen’s beme the first member of the Brish royal fay to e out as gay after revealg he is datg Jam Coyle. Openly homosexual, Kg Louis XIV’s younger brother also enjoyed drsg women’s cloth. It is known om his diary, private letters, and other survivg personal documents, that he had strong homosexual sir.

This is the only se Roman history where a named dividual male is stated as homosexual. Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil is an openly gay Indian prce who ns The Lakshya Tst. However, there is very ltle proof to substantiate the claims, wh Kg Henry crimalisg gay sex the Buggery Act of 1533.

He told a Gujarati daily newspaper about his sexualy 2006, makg him the first openly gay morn monarch the world — but then his fay quickly disowned him. Style was at the fore of the Prce’s life and he later published two books about fashn and terr sign: The Power Look 1978 and a follow-up, The Power Look at Home: Deratg for Men, Fürstenberg had a well-known fondns for gay nightlife. The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy between 1933 and 1945.

FALSE GERMAN PRINCE LIVED A GAY LIFE FOR MANY WEEKS; HARRY DOMELA, SOLDIER AND VAGABOND, RECEIVED HONORS PAID ONLY TO ROYALTY

It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power.

They also arrted large numbers of gay men unr Paragraph 175. It is important to note that not all of the men arrted and nvicted unr Paragraph 175 intified as gay. Intifyg as a gay man was never explicly crimalized Germany.

However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men.

IN INDIA, A GAY PRCE’S COMG OUT EARNS ACLAS, AND ENEMI

Gay men Germany were not a monolhic group, nor did the Nazi regime view them as such. Beg gay uld and often did rult persecutn.

However, other factors also shaped gay men’s liv durg the Nazi era. This diversy meant that gay men had a wi range of experienc Nazi Germany.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

For example, gay men active anti-Nazi polil movements risked beg arrted as polil opponents. And gay Jewish men faced Nazi persecutn and mass murr as Jews.

Gay Men Germany, cir 1900.

Already the mid- to late-neteenth century, there were ditns of nascent and growg gay muni Germany. Among the terms were “gleichgchlechtlich” (“same-sex oriented”) and “homosexuell” (“homosexual”).

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

The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”).