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Contents:
- TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?
- BT GAY HISTORIL ROMANCE
- JOHN E. BOSWELL, 47, HISTORIAN OF MEDIEVAL GAY CULTURE, DI
TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?
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Byzante bishops (5th century) tortured and mutilated as a punishment for homosexualy, alongsi untls other, unnamed victims of late Roman and Byzante of the foundatns of what we see early medieval Europe were laid by the Roman Empire, which at s height fluenced almost all rners of the ntent. Both heterosexual and homosexual partnerships, love, and sex were monplace and nsired unremarkable.
JOHN E. BOSWELL, 47, HISTORIAN OF MEDIEVAL GAY CULTURE, DI
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Stigma attached to homosexual terurse was borne by the receptive partner ('the beloved'), who Roman ey had allowed himself to be subordated to a lower stat than the active (peratg) partner (‘the lover').