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LOVE IS LOVE: GAY MARRIAGE POSSIBLE FOR DUTCH MONARCH

In the untry that first legalized gay marriage, the Dutch crown prcs has the right to marry a person of any genr whout givg up her right to the throne, the Prime Mister of the Netherlands said on Tuday. Gay marriage was legalized the Netherlands 2001. Rutte said that one issue remas unrolved: how a gay marriage would affect later succsn of the royal uple’s children.

REUTERS/Piroschka van Wouw Acquire Licensg RightsAMSTERDAM, Oct 12 (Rters) - In the untry that first legalised gay marriage, the Dutch crown prcs has the right to marry a person of any genr whout givg up her right to the throne, the prime mister said on Prcs Cathara-Amalia, 17, has not ma any ments on the matter, and ltle is known of her personal life. "Gay marriage was legalized the Netherlands said that one issue remas unrolved: how a gay marriage would affect later succsn of the royal uple's children. Related: Meet the Dutch gay man who fied the Nazis & saved thoands of liv.

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.