Gay Knights and Damned Bishops | The Vortex

Contents:

• TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?
• FROM “GAY KNIGHTS” TO CELEBRATN ON THE CIRCLE: A HISTORY OF PRI INDIANAPOLIS
• GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS
• THE GAY KNIGHT
• GAY KNIGHTS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• KNIGHTS OF THE GAY ROUND TABLE
• GAY KNIGHTS AND DAMNED BISHOPS
• KNIGHTS COLLEGE, A GAY FURRY VISUAL NOVEL, IS OUT NOW
• TAG: GAY KNIGHTS
• GAY KNIGHTS

TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?

I have been asked on several ocsns whether the Knights Templar were gay. One er got que irate when I sisted you uldn’t classify the Templars as a medieval LGBT anisatn – though that’s not to say some of the knights weren’t gay. Homosexual love is as old as humany but LGBT inty as we unrstand today is que morn.

FROM “GAY KNIGHTS” TO CELEBRATN ON THE CIRCLE: A HISTORY OF PRI INDIANAPOLIS

So – why this associatn between the Knights Templar and homosexualy?

So what were the accatns levelled agast the Templars that gave rise to the ia many were gay? Ithier of Rochefort unr torture admted to “obscene” kiss and “the cement to homosexualy”.

GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS

Ralph of Granville had homosexualy “enjoed upon him” via the ual kiss. When alg wh other heri, the church and s quisn often saw homosexualy as a symptom of hery.

Addg homosexualy to the mix was a given. Templars, homosexualy and s. If you were gay the Middle Ag, then jog a brotherhood of some scriptn was a good way to avoid that faiar and annoyg qutn at fay gathergs:.

In 1976, the first “Gay Pri Week” was held Indianapolis, hosted by the Metropolan Communy Church (MCC) and the Gay Peopl Unn. Rather than celebrate publicly, atten were ved to attend a piic at Sugar Creek Park, donate blood at MCC, participate a “Youth Kamp Dis, ” and attend workshops entled “Do I Tell My Parents?, ” “Christian and Gay, ” “Liftyl the ‘70s, ” and “Gays and Government.

THE GAY KNIGHT

Jam Hill said the purpose of the week was “to make society aware of our prence and as a self-affirmg thg for gay people as well—affirmg they have the right to be.

Program, 4th Annual Gay Pri Week Bnch, June 24, 1984, Jefey L.

Mayor Bill Hudnut reluctantly issued a letter that was read at one of the gathergs, clarg a mment to “an absence of anti-gay bias all police matters. ” Acrdg to a June 1985 The Works article, this marked “the first time any Mayor of Indianapolis has ma any posive public pronouncement on gays Indianapolis.

GAY KNIGHTS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

will go down the gay history of Indiana as the first time gays this state have exercised their Constutnal right to eedom of public assembly. Gays and lbians exercised this Constutnal right no ls a place than the Monument Circle area of Indianapolis full view of many Indianapolis cizens who me to see what gays had to say.

KNIGHTS OF THE GAY ROUND TABLE

After the 1984 gathergs, which some dubbed “Gay Knights on the Circle, ” Pri Week celebratns remaed relatively private until 1990.

’s Ruth Peters, the New Works News noted that the June event would “provi an opportuny for gays and lbians to crease their polil and muny awarens and visibily. If we make exc for not gog, we manift the ternalized homophobia that will ntue to keep on the ge, where society need not even regnize that we exist. Your stereotyp about gays and lbians are right.

GAY KNIGHTS AND DAMNED BISHOPS

Those who turned out for the unprecented event enjoyed entertament like drag shows, learned about gay rights legislatn, listened to AIDS activists, and teracted wh those manng booths for the Indiana Crossdrser Society (IXE), Indiana Youth Group, Damien Center, Act-Up Indy, Marn County Health Department Condom Contt, and Indiana Pro-Choice Actn League.

I was very proud to be a part of the lbian and gay muny as drew together to support one goal – the attament of a safe environment for all persons regardls of their sexual orientatn, race, creed, or genr.

One wrer for the New Works News wrote July that the “Celebratn on the Circle” was only the begng, ntendg that “The Gay Civil Rights movement is at a cril pot s velopment. The 2014 legalizatn of gay marriage and the 2015 enactment of the Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act exemplifi this dualy. “Gloria Frankel & The Seahorse: The South Bend LGBT Club’s Fight for Gay Rights”.

KNIGHTS COLLEGE, A GAY FURRY VISUAL NOVEL, IS OUT NOW

“The Debate over ‘Decency:’ How Hoosiers Challenged Ana Bryant’s Anti-Gay Rights Csa”.

TAG: GAY KNIGHTS

(shelved 1 time as gay-medieval-knights).

Assumg, as we mt, that at least some of the men’s sexual longgs were fulfilled, the next qutn is the extent to which timate homosexual relatnships were tolerated.

GAY KNIGHTS

Wh the wispread crimalizatn of homosexual relatns startg the thirteenth century, the marriag of men church uld not last. One of the thgs we like to discs is who we would ve to our imagary gay lunch.

But serly, our imagary gay lunch started wh Tim Gunn.