Queen Elizabeth's is expected to wed the first same-sex royal weddg this summer — but he is far om the first gay Brish royal, acrdg to historians.
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GAY BUCKGHAM, WRER AT LARGE
Gay Buckgham is bt known as thor of The Grand Electrifitn of the South, missned and published by The Power Company Limed, Inverrgill, and her children’s novel, Kākāpō Keeper, based on the te story of neteenth century nservatnist Richard Henry, published by OneTree Hoe, Auckland. Gay’s short stori have been broadst by Rad New Zealand and published the Domn Post, Turbe, Takahe magaze and Sunday Star Tim, as well as onle and anthologi. Gay is a graduate of the Universy of Otago, has an MA Creative Wrg om the IIML, Victoria Universy of Wellgton, and is (mostly) domiciled Duned, where she raised four children.
Gay is currently workg on a seri of lked short stori set the Catls area, Southland. Gay wr many different genr. Gay Buckgham.
Born the south of the South Island, Gay wr fictn, short fictn and creative non-fictn. Gay liv (mostly) Duned, is a graduate of Otago Universy, and has an MA om Victoria’s IIML. 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 KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
(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. 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.