Contents:
- WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
- A VERY IRISH SNDAL: THE GAY RUMORS BEHD THE UNSOLVED IRISH CROWN JEWELS HEIST OF 1907
- RICHARD CHAMBERLA, WHO TURNS 87 TODAY, WAS CLOSETED GAY MAN AT PEAK OF HIS FAME – BUT NO MORE!
WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
Specifilly, was he gay? My first acquatance wh the gay Richard meme me 1968, urty of a young English nurse om the medil centre at the pany where I worked.
She’d jt seen The Ln Wter and was distrsed by the movie’s unflatterg portra of a homosexual Richard.
The evince advanced for the gay this centr around three ma pots:.
A VERY IRISH SNDAL: THE GAY RUMORS BEHD THE UNSOLVED IRISH CROWN JEWELS HEIST OF 1907
Puttg biblil ntext, he believ “highly probable, if not certa” that the reference is to homosexual behavur. That said, Flori cl to characterize Richard as exclively or even predomantly gay.
RICHARD CHAMBERLA, WHO TURNS 87 TODAY, WAS CLOSETED GAY MAN AT PEAK OF HIS FAME – BUT NO MORE!
And at the heart of the sndal were salac allegatns—first whispered, then shouted—about a secret, gay party scene wh the stle walls. At a time when sex acts between men were illegal Bra, Shackleton’s homosexualy was an open secret; police may have feared he’d reveal sndalo rmatn about proment aristocrats his orb—like his iend the De of Argyll, who was also mored to be gay, or the de’s clost iend, the sculptorLord Ronald Gower. “His life London was totally documented by Stland Yard, ” Brian Lacey, thor of Terrible Queer Creatur: Homosexualy Irish History, tells Mental Floss.
In his book, Dungan wr that police disvered Virs was the hab of hostg “soiré” at the stle, wh “some of Dubl’s leadg homosexuals” among his guts. A police handout about the Irish Crown Jewels theft / Dubl Metropolan Police, Wikimedia Commons // Public DomaOfficials may have hoped that heapg blame on Virs would put the bacle at Dubl Castle to rt, and they were succsful keepg any whiff of a gay sndal out of the Irish prs. / Gee Washgton Ban, Wikimedia Commons // Public DomaIn fact, the theft of the Crown Jewels marked the third gay ntroversy two s that embroiled high-rankg members of the Brish tablishment.