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:. 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. 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.
A VERY IRISH SNDAL: THE GAY RUMORS BEHD THE UNSOLVED IRISH CROWN JEWELS HEIST OF 1907
“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. In the early 1880s, allegatns ma by an Irish natnalist journal led to the exposure of a “work of gay men who were active the cy’s gay unrground, ” wr historian Brian Crowley—among them the director of tectiv wh the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Secretary of the General Post Office of Ireland. That acplice may have been Capta Richard G, a ary man wh a notor reputatn; he was known to be gay and was reportedly prone to vlence, eventually gog to prison for killg a police officer.
He me out as a gay man 2003 and wrote about his memoir Shattered Love: “When I grew up, beg gay, beg a sissy or anythg like that was verboten. He ntued to be by rol both straight and gay – cludg recent years playg Felicy Huffman’s gay stepfather on Dperate Hoewiv and Uncle Sl’s love tert on Brothers & Sisters.