A Sdi prce has been jailed for life for murrg his manservant, who was found a bed at a plh London hotel where he had been beaten to ath. The fendant spent most of the trial tryg to prove he was not gay. Why?
Contents:
- ROYAL GAY SEX VIO SNDAL OUTED
- INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
- MEDIEVAL GAY ROYAL SNDALS, BUDDHIST DAVID HUME, AND A REALLY BORG QUEEN: A ROUNDUP OF HISTORY ARTICL ONLE THIS WEEK.
- ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
- 17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
- THE TE STORY OF ‘A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL’ AND THE TRIALS OF A CLOSETED GAY POLICIAN
ROYAL GAY SEX VIO SNDAL OUTED
* gay royal scandal *
Manvendra Sgh Gohil beme the first openly gay prce the world when he me out 2006. Queen Elizabeth's Lord Ivar Mountbatten me out as gay September 2016.
INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
Prce Edward is mored to be gay and was lked to another man. * gay royal scandal *
Philippe I, the De of Orléans, was known and often cricized for drsg women's clothg and his homosexualy was monly acknowledged.
" While the terms gay, queer, or even bisexual were rarely directly ed to scribe the royal, his relatnships wh men were well-documented. Philippe later married Prcs Palate Elizabeth Charlotte, who slept separate bedchambers and was generally fivg of what she lled "the Italian vice, " a lloquial term for homosexualy that era.
MEDIEVAL GAY ROYAL SNDALS, BUDDHIST DAVID HUME, AND A REALLY BORG QUEEN: A ROUNDUP OF HISTORY ARTICL ONLE THIS WEEK.
Shortly after he took the throne followg the abditn of his father Kg Victor Emmanuel III, Umberto was outed the prs as homosexual. Acrdg to World of Wonr, he also told an Italian newspaper that gay clubs like the Flamgo were among his favore plac to spend time and equently partied on Fire Island, a known lotn for the LGBTQ+ muny to e together.
‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
Lord Ivar Mountbatten is the first extend member of the Brish royal fay to e out as gay.
Lord Ivar Mountbatten, who is related to both Queen Elizabeth and her late hband Prce Philip, married his partner Jam Coyle 2018 two years after g out publicly as gay. Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil publicly me out an terview to a lol newspaper 2006, beg the first openly gay royal the untry. He was 41 at the 2018, homosexualy was illegal India unr a lonial era law that mand up to life imprisonment for anyone mtg sexual acts "agast the orr of nature.
Today, Gohil is fightg to outlaw gay nversn therapy India and fight the stigma agast the LGBTQ muny the untry.
17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
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.
(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.
THE TE STORY OF ‘A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL’ AND THE TRIALS OF A CLOSETED GAY POLICIAN
”“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.