Last emperor was 'gay and unable to father an heir'
Contents:
- GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
- CHA’S GAY EMPEROR KNOWN FOR HIS ‘CUT SLEEVE’
- GAY M/M CHA - (MOVI & DRAMAS)
- GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
This post is about a gay Emperor of Cha, the story of "the passn of the cut sleeve" and the history of homosexualy ancient Cha. * gay chinese emperor *
Morn Cha has a plited relatnship wh homosexualy: It was crimalized 1997, but queer dividuals ntue to face social stigma and issu like nversn therapy and censorship of LGBTQ topics on Weibo. Some historians, however, argue that the suatn was much different ancient history: In Che history, wh Tamkang Universy rearchg Liu Demg even suggtg a 2009 paper that homo-erotic relatnships were trendy among noble and tellectual men durg the Qg dynasty. The last emperor of the Wtern Han dynasty, who led om the 7 BCE to 1 BCE, was the spiratn of the idm “Sleeve-cuttg affectn, ” which refers to homosexualy.
Th, the phrase “Leftover peach affectn” (余桃之癖) also beme a chengyu to scribe a homosexual relatnship (see a pattern? The source material impli that Ai’s favorism and homosexualy undid the entire Wtern Han. Through the dynasti, one of the most mon phemisms for a homosexual has been “cut sleeve” (断袖 duàn xiù).
Mg and Qg dynasty thors would tle erotic homosexual stori as “Rerds of the Cut Sleeve. ” Police Republin Beijg would label homosexual behavr as “predilectn of the cut sleeve.
CHA’S GAY EMPEROR KNOWN FOR HIS ‘CUT SLEEVE’
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Today Cha, as many plac, homosexualy is merely tolerated rather than accepted: gay clubs n rema open, provid they stay out of the public eye.
But Cha’s long history of homosexualy giv hope to many the LGBTQ muny, a untry that only removed the orientatn om an official list of “mental illns” 2001. The historian Bret Hsch asserts Passns of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradn Cha that all ten emperors who led over the first two centuri of the Han dynasty were “openly bisexual, ” wh Ai beg the tenth. Gil, wrg the Journal of Sex Rearch, Cha had “a long history of dynastic homosexualy” before the Revolutn of 1949, wh “urtly love among lers and subjects of the same sex beg elevated to noble virtu.
” He says that the survivg lerature om that time perd Cha “dit that homosexualy was accepted by the royal urts and s ctom wispread among the nobily. While the de later turned on Mizi Xia, this vigte led to both “the bten peach” and “Mizi Xia” beg tchphras referrg to gay love Che.
GAY M/M CHA - (MOVI & DRAMAS)
While Europe’s Christiany promoted homophobia (along wh sexism and racism), much of the rt of the world celebrated a diversy of ways to love, to prent genr, and to have sex prelonial tim. Even the ancient perd, we see men who mataed a heterosexual marriage and a homosexual romance whout apparently seeg any ntradictn between the two. Seymour argu that ser homophobia didn’t seem to appear Cha until the Song dynasty (found 960):.
Durg the Song dynasty there was the popular redisvery of a sixth-century Indian Buddhist text that nmned homosexualy. Later there were the dranian law s imposed on Cha by the Mongols and the Manch, which ma homosexualy and certa other forms of extramaral sex ser crimal offens.
Sodomy was legalized Cha 1997, and homosexualy was removed om s DSM 2001. Texas, while homosexualy was removed om the Amerin DSM 1973. 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.
GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
(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. But he did ltle to obscure his sexualy: Sanssouci, his palace Potsdam, was filled wh homoerotic art and, across Europe, “l Potsdamists” beme slang for kg allegedly pursued the Veian philosopher Franc Algarotti and even famed French philosopher Voltaire, who lived wh him at Sanssouci, though ’s not certa if eher relatnship was Voltaire’s ath 1778, a mancript of his memoir tailg Frerick’s homosexual tennci tail was stolen and published the Netherlands.