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

Contents:

• INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
• BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE
• FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SPEAKS OUT ON MISSN TO END CONVERSN THERAPY: 'I HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTG'
• IN INDIA, A GAY PRCE’S COMG OUT EARNS ACLAS, AND ENEMI
• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.

Manvendra Sgh Gohil beme the first openly gay prce the world when he me out 2006.

Queen Elizabeth's Lord Ivar Mountbatten me out as gay  September 2016. Philippe I, the De of Orléans, was known and often cricized for drsg women's clothg and his homosexualy was monly acknowledged. " While the terms gay, queer, or even bisexual were rarely directly ed to scribe the royal, his relatnships wh men were well-documented.

Philippe later married Prcs Palate Elizabeth Charlotte, who slept separate bedchambers and was generally fivg of what she lled "the Italian vice, " a lloquial term for homosexualy that era. Shortly after he took the throne followg the abditn of his father Kg Victor Emmanuel III, Umberto was outed the prs as homosexual. Acrdg to World of Wonr, he also told an Italian newspaper that gay clubs like the Flamgo were among his favore plac to spend time and equently partied on Fire Island, a known lotn for the LGBTQ+ muny to e together.

BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE

Lord Ivar Mountbatten is the first extend member of the Brish royal fay to e out as gay. Lord Ivar Mountbatten, who is related to both Queen Elizabeth and her late hband Prce Philip, married his partner Jam Coyle 2018 two years after g out publicly as gay. Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil publicly me out an terview to a lol newspaper 2006, beg the first openly gay royal the untry.

He was 41 at the 2018, homosexualy was illegal India unr a lonial era law that mand up to life imprisonment for anyone mtg sexual acts "agast the orr of nature.

Today, Gohil is fightg to outlaw gay nversn therapy India and fight the stigma agast the LGBTQ muny the untry. In 2006, Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil me out to a lol newspaper, beg India's first openly gay prce.

FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SPEAKS OUT ON MISSN TO END CONVERSN THERAPY: 'I HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTG'

Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil, the 39th direct scendant of India's Gohil Raut dynasty, knew he was gay at age 12.

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

But he uld only live his tth three s publicly me out an terview to a lol newspaper 2006, beg the first openly gay royal the untry. He was 41 at the 2018, homosexualy was illegal India, punishable unr Sectn 377, a lonial-era dranian law that mand up to life imprisonment for anyone mtg sexual acts "agast the orr of nature.

He turned the palace grounds he was once thrown out of to a shelter for the LGBTQ+ had expected the homophobic uproar. The society he grew up around was strongly nserative, and the untry he grew up didn't legally regnize gay rights. Many around him believed that homosexualy was a mental disorr.

Much of his advocy for LGBTQ+ rights ntu to primarily revolve around cimatg the stigma around homosexualy. In 2018, the year that the Supreme Court crimalized homosexualy a landmark lg, Gohil opened up a 15-acre palace grounds to build a shelter for vulnerable members of the muny.

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

"They thought was impossible that I uld be gay bee my cultural upbrgg had been so rich. 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.

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.