‘The kg and his hband’: The gay history of Brish royals - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• DIMAKATSO MOKWENA – AUTHOR OF HERE COM THE GAY KG
• HERE COM THE GAY KG
• GAY HISTORY: HERE COM THE GROOM
• HERE COM THE GAY KG
• HERE COM THE GAY KG
• THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG
• EDWARD II - THE GAY KG
• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• 'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL

DIMAKATSO MOKWENA – AUTHOR OF HERE COM THE GAY KG

Dimakatso Mokwena is the thor of the new South Ain queer novel, Here Com the Gay Kg. Mokwena intifi as a black gay man, a Christian, and a dad. He has only recently add thor to the list wh the publitn of his first novel, Here Com the Gay Kg.

The story centr around Peace, a gay man om the village who liv the cy. Peace has been chosen by his anctors to lead his people, however, there are obstacl to his ascensn to the throne: he is a gay man who is love wh Thomas, his muny are ambivalent towards havg a gay kg, and, on top of that, he is required to marry his brother’s widow orr to take the throne.

“I believe you n still embrace your Ain inty while livg your life as a gay person.

HERE COM THE GAY KG

Here Com the Gay Kg not only explor the tribulatns Peace and Thomas’s relatnship and how they al wh the challeng, but also tackl tradnal Ain views of homosexualy. While the novel is sentially a love story, also dips to cultural elements and seeks to smash stereotyp surroundg homosexualy black tradnal society. “Increasgly, we are seeg more gay people takg learship posns, ” says Mokwena, “The msage I want to nvey is that you n be gay and still be kg whout havg to give up your cultural inty.

GAY HISTORY: HERE COM THE GROOM

“More gay people are g out to own and accept themselv.

In the ral muni ’s kd-of accepted – as long as you don’t say you’re gay, or show that you’re gay. There is still this ia that beg gay is un-Ain or that ’s a whe person thg, ” Mokwena explas, “But Modjadji the Ra Queen had wiv.

I believe you n still embrace your Ain inty while livg your life as a gay person. He addrs homophobia and femism his work – whout even g those terms.

HERE COM THE GAY KG

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- Siya Khumalo, You Have To Be Gay To Know GodWhen Peace reluctantly agre to her his late brother’s widow Mma Mogale, his relatnship wh long-time boyiend Thomas is head for a llisn urse. There were already vultur poised for an opportuny to stroy their love nt and seemgly idyllic liftyle and now may be their, Peace is torn between the morn rporate life he and Thomas are livg Tshwane and his sty as the village chief wh his roots a nservative fay where heterosexualy is a given and homosexualy nmned as fuels the tensns between him and Thomas, the man he regnis as his te love, as Thomas battl wh the stctn for Peace to her a bri. Peace is trapped between appeasg his fay’s wish and followg his heart, but when tragedy strik, Peace mt fd ways to embrace his sty that the fay and village may not regnise as Com the Gay Kg explor the labyrth of gay life wh s bety and plexi a post-apartheid South Ai, while takg rears on a journey across the breath-takg landspe that nstut this untry.

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HERE COM THE GAY KG

Yet, Peace is torn between the morn rporate life he and Thomas are livg Tshwane and his sty as the village chief wh his roots a nservative fay where heterosexualy is a given and homosexualy nmned as un-Ain. Here Com the Gay Kg explor the labyrth of gay life wh s bety and plexi a post-apartheid South Ai, while takg rears on a journey across the breath-takg landspe that nstut this untry.

In our md, Edward II is always the gay kg, so we feel some sort of affectn for him jt on that basis. Was Edward II gay? Marlowe is wily accepted to have been gay.

This wasn’t the first time that he’d addrsed gay relatnships his work, but Edward II was the most explicly and sympathetilly gay character that Marlowe had tackled. 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 TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG

(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.

”“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.

EDWARD II - THE GAY KG

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.

”The archde spent the rt of his life secln at Klsheim Palace near Salzburg, where he died at the age of 76 1919, three years after his brother’s ath and one year after the Atro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved after the end of World War II of Buganda (1868 - 1903)Discsn of Uganda’s treatment of homosexualy ually settl on Print Yoweri Meveni’s “Kill the Gays” bill, but this 19th century kabaka, or kg, of Buganda allegedly had sexual relatnships wh men along wh his 16 1886, Mwanga II orred the btal torture and aths of dozens of urtiers and pag, wh many burned alive. “I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported. ”The speculatn that Edward II’s relatnships wh the men went beyond iendship was fueled by Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play “Edward II”, which is often noted for s homoerotic portrayal of Edward II and VI and I, who reigned over Stland and later England and Ireland until his ath 1625, attracted siar scty for his male favor, a term ed for panns and advisers who had special preference wh monarchs.

‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

Bergeron theoriz his book “Kg Jam and Letters of Homoerotic Dire”: “The scriptn that mov across the letters spell sire. Disver the most recent articl published the prt issue, which is the olst and largt gay magaze the Uned Stat.

Fd out about the historic magaze that was spired by a police raid of a Los Angel gay bar and has grown to bee a proment voice for topics related to the gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr muny and s alli. Perhaps this is why, as a teenager who had ternalized societal homophobia, I felt a certa amount of shame and self-loathg when I tected effemacy high school photos of myself, but felt no such embarrassment when lookg at photos of my equally fabulo and flamg fancy and childhood.

'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL

The article, by Josh Jackman, reported how hundreds of social media ers had been sharg the image and llg the young prce a “gay in” for his adorably fey pose. One of the tweets featured the article proclaimed, “Prce Gee is already a bigger gay in to me than Boy Gee.

Northern Irish polician Jim Allister, lear of the Tradnal Unnist Voice (TUV) party, mand an apology after somehow (one wonrs) stumblg onto the gay news webse and fdg the article. ” Settg asi the premise that homosexuals somehow lead a life more fed by sex than heterosexuals, I never fail to be amazed by how the Jim Allisters of the world nnot see how all children are “sexualized” as heterosexual by flt. A few months later, a blog post went viral which Reverend Kelv Holdsworth of the Sttish Epispal Church lled for Christians to pray for Prce Gee to grow up to be gay.

” User ments articl about Holdsworth’s blog post were a toxic sludge heap of homophobia.