Post-Stonewall gay men's culture, cludg sexual/erotic culture, stands a nsistent (but largely unanalyzed) relatnship to the Middle Ag.1 To repren
Contents:
- TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?
- BT GAY HISTORIL ROMANCE
- GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS
- GAY (ADJ.)
TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?
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I have been asked on several ocsns whether the Knights Templar were gay.
BT GAY HISTORIL ROMANCE
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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.
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.
GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS
Books shelved as gay-medieval-knights: The Damng Stone by T.J. Klune, Pool of Dreams by Sam Burns, How I Stole the Prcs's Whe Knight and Turned H... * gay medieval *
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GAY (ADJ.)
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:. Gay Inter Medievalism: Erotic Story Archiv, the Middle Ag, and Contemporary Gay Inty - 24 Hours accs. An art historian disvered a 400-year-old portra of Gee Villiers, the former De of Buckgham who is thought to have been the gay lover of Kg Jam VI and I, the Brish ler om 1567 to 1625 who missned a btsellg book known as The Kg Jam Bible.
Hovn’s bed ment may be more of a polil metaphor than a leral one — polics do make strange bedfellows, after all — but even still, Richard I has long been lnized as a gay in. The plays of both possibly-gay English playwright Christopher Marlowe and totally-gay English playwright Derek Jarman both picted Edward II as gay.