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WAS MY ANCTOR KG HENRY V'S GAY LOVER?
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That's thanks to playwright Christopher Marlowe, who 1594 published Edward II, wily nsired “the gay, homosexual, queer play of the Renaissance, ” says Judh Haber, an English profsor at tumultuo reign of England’s Edward II lasted om 1307 to 1327, but his legacy would lger much longer the Brish nscns. There is never nclive evince of jt what a given monarch was gettg up to the bedroom, and as the panoply of LGBTQ+ scriptors and tegori had yet to be vented, ’s somewhat accurate by fn to say a kg was gay.
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