For much of history, LGBTQ+ royalty need to hi their inti. Even though some societi embraced homosexualy, most refed to accept a gay monarch. But before we talk about LGBTQ+ kgs and queens, let's start wh the history of sexual inty. The terms heterosexual and homosexual didn't exist until the 1860s. And until the 1930s, heterosexual meant an abnormal…
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY: ALL THE KGS AND QUEENS WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY LGBTQ+
- WERE LEWIS AND CLARK GAY?
- WAS LOUIS THE 16TH GAY?
GAY HISTORY: ALL THE KGS AND QUEENS WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY LGBTQ+
Even though some societi embraced homosexualy, most refed to accept a gay monarch. The terms heterosexual and homosexual didn’t exist until the 1860s.
WERE LEWIS AND CLARK GAY?
To others, though, Richard I is a gay in. The ancient Greeks were very open-md about homosexualy. England loved Elizabeth, and they remaed uncerta of the Sttish ler wh a reputatn for homosexual love affairs.
Many assume Louis XIII was gay, and believe Louis XIV might not have been his son at all. But if you don’t thk ’s absurd for one (historilly important) man to sire another, ’s jt a very tired anti-gay joke.
Last summer, We Proceed On, the scholarly journal of the Lewis and Clark Trail Herage Foundatn me unr signifint fire after historian and archivist William Benemann published two says that speculated on the homo-erotic nature of the bond between the two Mr. Many letter wrers cried the cln, llg gay “propaganda” and an “abomatn, ” — that “disparaged” our “Amerin hero” by suggtg anythg other than heterosexualy when speakg of the two men: “I am takg this opportuny to exprs my outrage and disappotment about the article that bmirched the good character of Captas Lewis and Clark. 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.
WAS LOUIS THE 16TH GAY?
(The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri. 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 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.