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…
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- 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
- GAY HISTORY: ALL THE KGS AND QUEENS WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY LGBTQ+
- VERSAILL’ GAY, CROSS DRSG PRCE REVEALS THE TTH ABOUT LIFE FRANCE’S MOST SNDALO URT
5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
Marchers filed through the French pal on Sunday to prott agast Print Franis Hollan's plan to legalize gay marriage and adoptn. * homosexual french kings *
(Rters) - Marchers filed through the French pal on Sunday to prott agast Print Franis Hollan’s plan to legalize gay marriage and is a timele on marriage and the rights of homosexuals France. 1791 - Followg the French Revolutn, the penal is amend to crimalize homosexual acts.
1995 - Sat Nazaire be the first cy to allow homosexuals to register as ncub, a legal ncept allowg limed shared rights for unmarried upl livg together.
2001 - Bertrand Delanoe, a Socialist who was one of the first French policians to publicly clare his homosexualy, is elected mayor of Paris. Sce then, an openly gay man and an openly bisexual man serve as culture misters nservative natnal ernments.
GAY HISTORY: ALL THE KGS AND QUEENS WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY LGBTQ+
Many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret. * homosexual french kings *
It matas that extendg those rights to gay upl would vlate the Uned Natns Conventn on the Rights of the Child, which France has signed. 2010 - Origally seen as a kd of gay unn, the PACS gradually morphs to “marriage le” for heterosexuals.
VERSAILL’ GAY, CROSS DRSG PRCE REVEALS THE TTH ABOUT LIFE FRANCE’S MOST SNDALO URT
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2012 - Franis Hollan clus gay marriage as one of 60 mpaign promis but do not figure highly bat for the printial electn May.
In November, the bet approv a draft law allowg same-sex marriage wh adoptn rights that will be prented to parliament on January 292013 - On January 13, Catholics, nservativ, Mlims, evangelils and homosexuals opposed to same-sex marriage march Paris the first major street prott agast Print Franis Hollan. For the past half-century, Richard the Lnheart - that buff, bronzed warrr who hardly saw his wife and had no children - has been somethg of a gay in.
The star of upg historil drama Versaill talks to PkNews about playg the lourful, gay character of one of France's most famo kgs. * homosexual french kings *
As a prence on the silver screen (most famoly the shape of the young Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter) his homosexualy has rarely been doubt. English history isn't short of gay or bisexual monarchs - Edward II, Jam I, possibly William II - but the historil evince for untg Richard I among their number rts on one ntemporary document ncerng his relatnship wh Kg Philip II of France.
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.