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• GAY MEN ON SAYG GOODBYE TO QUEEN ELIZABETH
• IS QUEEN LATIFAH GAY? KNOW HER EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIPS AND MORE
• 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
• QUEEN OF THE GAYS

GAY MEN ON SAYG GOODBYE TO QUEEN ELIZABETH

That's thanks to playwright Christopher Marlowe, who 1594 published Edward II, wily nsired “the gay, homosexual, queer play of the Renaissance, ” says Judh Haber, an English profsor at tumultuo reign of England’s Edward II lasted om 1307 to 1327, but his legacy would lger much longer the Brish nscns. There is never nclive evince of jt what a given monarch was gettg up to the bedroom, and as the panoply of LGBTQ+ scriptors and tegori had yet to be vented, ’s somewhat accurate by fn to say a kg was gay.

Stewart not that the play begs s eback the 1890s, when Osr Wil was beg tried for homosexualy. The first same-sex kiss on Brish televisn took place durg the BBC's broadst of the play, starrg none other than Ian the Guardian, McKellen’s star Timothy Wt remembered him portrayg Edward as “unapologetilly gay, ” an artistic choice which ed “somethg of a stir. It might’ve been n by a gaggle of gays, but that wasn’t the pot.

It also mak the analogy to 1990s homophobia leral, renrg Edward’s army as group of gay rights protters, plete wh posters readg “Get your filthy hands off our bodi. ” The film is still herald as one of the rnerston of the New Queer Cema II’s cultural profile has also, at tim, reflected our culture's ep homophobia. Jt over a ago, when gay rights activist Peter Tatchell sought to nmn homophobia Northern Ireland, he suggted Kg William III as yet another possibly queer Imag/Michael StillwellBetter known as William of Orange (or Kg Billy Stland), Queen Anne's precsor reigned over England, Stland, and Ireland om 1689 to 1702.

IS QUEEN LATIFAH GAY? KNOW HER EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIPS AND MORE

As Tatchell said to the Belfast Telegraph, “It is particularly hypocril for unnist policians to play the homophobic rd when their hero William of Orange had male lovers. While he likely didn’t nvce any avowedly homophobic lawmakers to see the light, his historilly-backed claims ma headl, reigng a bate about LGBTQ+ acceptance Northern Ireland. Explicly nceived as a haven for gay men, was known for s youthful clientele, celebry patrons, and notorly hedonistic vibe; beme even more of a draw wh the openg of “The Backlot, ” an adjacent performance venue that featured some of the biggt “A-list” acts of the era.

“Stt Forb’ visn was to have a place for gay whe men only, ” Saltarelli tells . Built on stunng, powerful mil performanc and peppered wh surprisg and revelatory historil terpretatn – as well as edic banter and form-transcennt dience teractn – wove a narrative piled om “between the l” of monly-held history, exposg thgs like the sual bigotry at the heart of many of Ameri’s earlit popular songs and the misogyny and homophobia that has ntued to permeate s mic until the prent day; an hour was dited to each , wh Mac cked out an elaborate new era-specific stume – signed by longtime llaborator Mache Dazzle and rporatg humoro referenc to Amerin life each of the 24 s vered the show – for each one; each hour, one of 24 onstage micians would part the stage, until Mac, alone and unacpanied except for a ulele, was left alone to perform origal songs for the fal hour. GAY TIMES ss down wh South-Ain sger-songwrer Baby Queen as she nears an extraordary new era.

Whether label ordaed or not, the 24-year-old sticks to her ethos of ter reliabily, plete wh on-stage quips llg out homophobia, a short tour of her favoure bodily srs and satiril parodi of terviews — a remr for onlookers not to pile on qutns about Jodie Comer, Olivia Rodrigo and Courtney Love. “It has given me a sense of self-rpect that I didn’t have for a very long time, pecially when I was livg London, ” she tells GAY TIMES. I n’t image what would have been if I did go to Ameri, ” she tells GAY TIMES.

5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY

“People make you feel sh about who you are, and I remember beg lled a wannabe school, ” she tells GAY TIMES. Baby Queen took to the stage at GAY TIMES Honours November last year, performg her hs Wannabe, Want Me and Buzzkill. I’m glad I’m on the GAY TIMES stage.

The Wannabe sger adds: “GAY TIMES has been one of the ma publitns that have really been on team Baby Queen. Beg at GAY TIMES Honours was the fuckg olt thg of my whole life. The vibe of the GAY TIMES muny and the LGBTQ+ muny is so acceptg.

QUEEN OF THE GAYS

GAY TIMES Honours is a great room to be . It’s sentially send album syndrome, ” Latham tells GAY TIMES. "It was a very empowerg procs for to tell their story, " actor Sam Clemmett says of brgg to life the first gay romance the world of Bridgerton.

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, which is now streamg on Netflix, fally giv LGBTQ+ fans what they've been yearng for the world of the ton — a gay romance.

The royal servicemen are servicg each Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story has fally troduced to the popular media anchise two explicly gay characters who actually have a lot of screen time and their own storyl to be we had gotten some blk-and-you-miss- reprentatn of gay men on the flagship Bridgerton seri, the Queen Charlotte prequel seri featur two more fully-realized characters: Brimsley, the Queen’s secretary (played by Sam Clemmett), and Reynolds, the Kg’s secretary (played by Freddie Dennis) only are the characters gay, but they have recurrg storyl the seri and are known for sneakg out to have sex whenever they to appearg on Queen Charlotte, Clemmett was bt known for appearg films and TV shows like Cherry, The War Below, and Enavour. As happens wh many public figur, the world mourns, and as we mourn llectively, there is somethg even more palpable for certa people—gay men—about losg her.

Elizabeth’s Mystique for Gay Men. I spent the day on Thursday absorbg as many media portrayals of her life and ath as I uld while also wonrg why her mystique has always been so powerful among gay men.

A uple of my gay iends on social media posted hourly photos of her taken throughout her life span, lettg their iends and followers know jt how important she had been to them. I’d wonred if more men would pla that she hadn’t been “direct enough” about important subjects, like gay rights, Prcs Diana, her son Andrew’s myriad issu, her grandson Harry’s whdrawal om royal duti, Brex, and so on.

She wasn’t perfect, but I enjoyed seeg how she was rpected by so many of my gay iends and lleagu. Growg up, gay boys have need to nceal themselv based on the risk of beg rejected or huiated. Also, gay boys have a certa athetic different om that of other boys, somethg equently scribed as nate—so for gay men, a particular elegance and style have s own tomatic draw.

I scribed the pomp and circumstance that was how the queen held and shared herself the world, and gay men are drawn to the predictabily and safety of rual, as well as to a gree of formaly that n also help them hi behd a faça.

My nonprof anizatn, Gay Sons & Mothers, exam the nnectns between gay men and the olr women their liv, and the dynamics I observed around Elizabeth’s ath are very close to those we see when a gay man los a beloved mother, nt, or grandmother.

When I thk about the myriad stori and scriptns that gay men have ed scribg their mothers, is clear that many boys would have wished for a mom who was ls cel, cril, and more rtraed about her reactn to his beg different. And maybe pecially to gay men. Perhaps gay boys would fd the world a ls hostile environment if more of the world followed her example.