Contents:
- RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
- CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART
- RICHARD I SLEPT WH FRENCH KG 'BUT NOT GAY'
- WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
For the past century, Richard the Lnheart has been seen as a gay in leadg the list of Brish LGBTQ+ monarchs alongsi Kg Jam I and Queen Anne of England. Was Richard the Lnheart gay?
However, there’s a small piece of historil evince that many historians took as clear proof that Richard the Lnheart was gay. Other historians have voted their rearch to monstrate that more than the gay in morny has turned Richard the Lnheart to, he was actually a very astute polician who knew perfectly well the l of polics to keep his power and ambns. Now, let’s be clear, this don’t mean he pretend to be gay to make allianc; actually has to do more wh the nventns of the time.
As we talked, the ma evince historians who believe Richard the Lnheart was gay is that extract om Hoven’s chronicl where he stat that Richard and Philip spent some nights together.
CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART
Now whether he was gay or not, don’t really matter. For the past half-century, Richard the Lnheart - that buff, bronzed warrr who hardly saw his wife and had no children - has been somethg of a gay in. As a prence on the silver screen (most famoly the shape of the young Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter) his homosexualy has rarely been doubt.
English history isn't short of gay or bisexual monarchs - Edward II, Jam I, possibly William II - but the historil evince for untg Richard I among their number rts on one ntemporary document ncerng his relatnship wh Kg Philip II of France.
RICHARD I SLEPT WH FRENCH KG 'BUT NOT GAY'
Was Richard the Lnheart Gay? Everythg was route until the last two sentenc: “In strikg ntrast to his father, and wh Kg John [his brother] he was, there seems no doubt, a homosexual. Now please don’t get me wrong—I have nothg agast gays.
If Richard the Lnheart was gay, then that would be the character I would wre about. I need to ci how I would addrs the Richard-was-gay was Richard Lnheart gay? Possibly, and that giv the argument that Richard was gay.
WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
This do not sound like a reluctant gay man. Was this the reluctance of a gay man?
Some have read to this that Richard ma this public nfsn to addrs homosexual behavr.
But the ia of a “sodome” as referrg to gay behavr is a more morn ia. This do not prove Richard hated women, or wasn’t attracted to ia that Richard the Lnheart, that dashg warrr of the Middle Ag, that larger-than-life epome of bravery battle, was gay is an trigug tabloid-style shocker.