Contents:
- LN WTER (THE)
- WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
- GAY LNS? NOT QUE
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
LN WTER (THE)
But there was one facet of the movie that I didn’t discs that post, namely the claim that the movie mak that Richard the Lnhearted was homosexual. When The Ln Wter me out, was still a year before the Stonewall Rts igned the Gay Liberatn movement. Homosexualy was a taboo issue, and Philip’s revelatn would have been as shockg then as an admissn of ct might be today.
WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
Bee homosexuals were stereotypilly picted as effemate, the notn that the great medieval soldier Richard the Lnhearted might be homosexual was startlg.
GAY LNS? NOT QUE
In 1948, historian John Harvey, his book The Plantages, put forward the argument that Richard was homosexual.
And certaly to dienc of the 60s, the revelatn of the relatnship would have seemed que shockg, pecially sce Richard the Ln-hearted is one of the most celebrated warrrs of the Middle Ag, whereas Ameri, the US ary was still issug dishonorable discharg for homosexual activy 1967.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
As I noted, Gillgham disagre wh the notn that Richard was homosexual.
" O'Toole readily admted her prence that she rced him "to a shadow of my former gay-dog self.