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. 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.
WERE LEWIS AND CLARK GAY?
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. (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.
WAS LOUIS THE 16TH GAY?
”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa.
Young as “the most proment homosexual figure the early morn perd. )“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. Frerick the Great of Pssia (1712 - 1786)Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his years after the kg’s ath, his physician Johann Ge Rter von Zimmermann published a book which he sperately tried to dispel gossip Frerick had a “Grecian taste love.
And rather than let that secret out, Frerick pretend to be gay, “so that he would ntue to appear virile and pable of sexual terurse, albe wh men. But he did ltle to obscure his sexualy: Sanssouci, his palace Potsdam, was filled wh homoerotic art and, across Europe, “l Potsdamists” beme slang for kg allegedly pursued the Veian philosopher Franc Algarotti and even famed French philosopher Voltaire, who lived wh him at Sanssouci, though ’s not certa if eher relatnship was Voltaire’s ath 1778, a mancript of his memoir tailg Frerick’s homosexual tennci tail was stolen and published the Netherlands.