Templars and sodomy - were the knights really gay? - The Templar Knight

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.

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

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.

GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS

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”.

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.

THE GAY KNIGHT

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.

GAY KNIGHTS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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.

KNIGHTS OF THE GAY ROUND TABLE

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.

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. 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.

GAY KNIGHTS AND DAMNED BISHOPS

Your stereotyp about gays and lbians are right. 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”. (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. 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.

TAG: GAY KNIGHTS

But serly, our imagary gay lunch started wh Tim Gunn. One nversatnal thg led to another and we had a whole bunch of gay men jog at our imagary meal. So I have cid to share wh you my Knights of the Gay Round Table:.

It would seem the time has e the Church to root out one of the most glarg problems that no one thory seemgly wants to al wh: the whole issue of homosexualy — meang not jt the attractn, which is not sful self, but the total pulatn to the ant homosexual agenda by those the Church. One: It n mean beg actively gay like many clerics are. Two: It n mean beg gay while not practicg yourself, but still beg sympathetic to the evil, and so ignorg when occurs among fellow clergy.

GAY KNIGHTS

Three: It n mean not beg gay yourself at all, but still beg sympathetic to iends or fay who are and so ignorg .

Four: It n mean not beg gay yourself at all, but not wantg to kill your cleril reer, and so you choose to keep your mouth shut and not make gay enemi the Church. Five: And n mean not beg gay yourself, and not really rg about the issue bee you are different and lewarm and don’t really re about much at all.