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Contents:
- QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED
- GAY MARRIAGE LEGALIZED BRA AFTER QUEEN GIV ROYAL STAMP OF APPROVAL
- IT’S OFFICIAL: QUEEN ELIZABETH II SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL INTO LAW ENGLAND AND WAL
- BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE
- QUEEN ELIZABETH RIPS CHRIS CHRISTIE ON GAY MARRIAGE
- NO, THE QUEEN WAS NOT AGAST GAY MARRIAGEADVOCATEPALACE STAFFERS ARE PHG BACK HARD AGAST A REPORT THAT ELIZABETH WASN’T PLEASED ABOUT LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BRA. TOM SYKROYALIST CORRPONNTUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 4:33PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 07, 2016 9:27AM EST POOL PHOTO BY CHRIS JACKSONSENR SOURC AT BUCKGHAM PALACE WERE PHG BACK HARD MONDAY AGAST CLAIMS THAT QUEEN ELIZABETH WAS OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE WHEN WAS TRODUCED THE U.K. 2013.THE MAIL MAK THE ASTONISHG CLAIM—WHICH GO AGAST HER MAJTY’S REPUTATN FOR TOLERANCE AND OPEN-MDNS— A NEW SERI PENNED BY GOSSIP LUMNIST RICHARD KAY LNCHG THE PAPER TODAY.THE MAIL CLAIMS THAT THE QUEEN DID NOT APPROVE OF THE LEGALIZATN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND EXPRSED HER TRATN TO A IEND AT THE HEIGHT OF THE NTROVERSY.THE IEND, ACRDG TO THE MAIL, SAID: “IT WAS THE ‘MARRIAGE’ THG THAT SHE THOUGHT WAS WRONG, BEE MARRIAGE OUGHT TO BE SACROSANCT BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN.” HOWEVER, SOURC AT THE PALACE POURED LD WATER ON THOSE CLAIMS. “IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THAT ONE OF HER IENDS WOULD PASS ON HER THOUGHTS TO THE MAIL,” SNIFFED ONE SENR URTIER TO THE DAILY BEAST.PALACE STAFF—MANY OF WHOM ARE GAY—ARE HAMSTNG BY THE FACT THAT THE QUEEN MATAS STRICT POLIL NTRALY AND WOULD NEVER PUBLICLY MENT EHER WAY ABOUT ISSU SUCH AS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.HOWEVER, ONE URTIER DID MAKE AN EXPLIC—FOR THEM— NUNCIATN OF THE CLAIMS BY EMAILG THE DAILY BEAST A LK TO A PIECE PK NEWS WHICH THE GAY TV PRENTER AND EDIAN STEPHEN FRY REUNTED THE FOLLOWG STORY: “WHEN THE QUEEN SIGNED THE ROYAL ASSENT FOR THE EQUAL MARRIAG ACT, ALLOWG GAY PEOPLE TO MARRY FOR THE FIRST TIME, SHE PUT DOWN AND SAID ‘WELL, WHO’D HAVE THOUGHT 62 YEARS AGO WHEN I ME TO THE THRONE, I’D BE SIGNG SOMETHG LIKE THIS? ISN’T WONRFUL?’”ALTHOUGH FRY SAYS THE STORY IS APOCRYPHAL, THE FACT THAT PALACE STAFFERS WERE READY TO EMAIL THE STORY TO AN K-STAED WRETCH IS A PRETTY CLEAR SIGN THAT THEY NSIR THE MAIL’S REPORT TO BE ACCURATE, AND A MISCHARACTERIZATN OF THE QUEEN’S VIEWS.“WE’RE NOT GOG TO GET TO A DID SHE / DIDN’T SHE,” SAID THE SOURCE, BUT LLED THE STORY “SPUR AND UNSUBSTANTIATED.”QUEEN ELIZABETH HAS PREVLY SIGNALED HER SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS VERY PUBLIC WAYS.SHE WAS A PASSNATE SUPPORTER OF A “COMMONWEALTH CHARTER” SIGNED 2013 WHICH CLARED: “WE ARE IMPLABLY OPPOSED TO ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMATN, WHETHER ROOTED GENR, RACE, LOUR, CREED, POLIL BELIEF, OR OTHER GROUNDS.”THE ”OTHER GROUNDS” REFERRED TO SEXUALY—BUT SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO ”GAYS AND LBIANS” WAS OMTED FOR FEAR OF UPSETTG COMMONWEALTH UNTRI WH DRANIAN ANTI-GAY LAWS.THE QUEEN, UNLIKE HER SON CHARL, HAS STUDLY MATAED AN APOLIL STANCE THROUGHOUT HER REIGN.SHE APPEARED TO TERVENE THE STTISH PENNCE REFERENDUM WHEN SHE TOLD A GROUP OF WELL-WISHERS OUTSI SANDRGHAM CHURCH TO “THK VERY REFULLY ABOUT THE FUTURE” THE DAY BEFORE THE VOTE.IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE QUEEN WAS URGED TO SPEAK AFTER AN APPEAL OM DOWNG STREET, AS THE OUT MPAIGN GAED GROUND, BUT THIS ALLEGATN HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN OR ACKNOWLEDGED.THERE IS LTLE DOUBT THAT THE QUEEN WAS LIGHTED WH THE RULT WHEN THE STS VOTED NOT TO LEAVE THE U.K.PRIME MISTER DAVID CAMERON WAS UGHT ON AN OPEN MICROPHONE TELLG MICHAEL BLOOMBERG THAT SHE “PURRED” WH HAPPS DOWN THE LE WHEN HE PHONED HER WH THE RULT. TOM SYK
- WHY THE QUEEN BELIEVED GAY MARRIAGE SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED
- QUEEN ELIZABETH ON GAY MARRIAGE: "IT'S WONRFUL"
QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED
LONDON (The Borowz Report)—Moments after approvg a new law legalizg gay marriage England and Wal, Queen Elizabeth II of Bra unleashed a … * queen and gay marriage *
By the time she died, the landspe for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights looked dramatilly different — at least the Uned Kgdom — part bee she approved of many pro-LGBTQ measur, such as same-sex marriage. ” The Brish ernment was g the 1885 Crimal Law Amendment Act — which was ed to send playwright and poet Osr Wil to prison 1895 — to arrt and prosecute queer people, particularly men, for same-sex sexual years of gay activism, Parliament passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967, which partially crimalized same-sex sexual relatns.
Nearly 40 years later, passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 2003, which repealed the 1885 measure and crimalized gay sex pletely. By the same token, he add, she shouldn’t be held rponsible for the passage of Sectn 28, a 1988 law that she gave her assent to that barred schools om “promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship.
GAY MARRIAGE LEGALIZED BRA AFTER QUEEN GIV ROYAL STAMP OF APPROVAL
”Surdy also poted to some recent reportg that the queen has exprsed support for LGBTQ people behd closed Elizabeth II durg a vis to HMS Queen Elizabeth at HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, ahead of the ship's main ployment, on May 22, Parsons / PA/AP fileCarl At-Behan, the first openly gay lord mayor of Manchter, met the monarch 2021, he told the BBC after her ath. He said the queen requted an LGBTQ choir to perform at an event to mark the 600th anniversary of the royal charter to tablish Manchter was discharged om the Royal Air Force 1997 bee he was gay, and he told the BBC that he and the queen talked about how far the untry had e.
IT’S OFFICIAL: QUEEN ELIZABETH II SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL INTO LAW ENGLAND AND WAL
“I feel she genuely red about our muny, ” he told the people have also poted to her 2013 pardon of Alan Turg, a World War II breaker often referred to as the “father of puter science” who was nvicted of “homosexual offens” unr the 1885 law.
BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE
Over the seven s she reigned, she oversaw a breadth of polil and cultural progrs for LGBTQ+ Brons that few other lers n claim to match, om the legalizatn of homosexualy to same-sex marriage, the passage of anti-discrimatn laws, and is ctomary for the monarchy, Queen Elizabeth II was mted to “polil ntraly, ” and avoid much public ment on LGBTQ+ rights over her reer (a fact bemoaned by many mentators).
However, others poted out that the charter did not explicly state a mment to LGBTQ+ equaly, nor even the words “gay” or “lbian, ” as the Advote reported at the time.
QUEEN ELIZABETH RIPS CHRIS CHRISTIE ON GAY MARRIAGE
Addnally, the Brish empire is rponsible for exportg laws that crimalize homosexualy to s dozens of loni, many of which still rema effect to this day. ” This marked the first time that the Queen has mentned LGBTQ+ rights sce 2003, when she vowed to support legislatn regardg same-sex partnerships, acrdg to Pk of Homophobia at Buckgham PalaceAlso 2017, the Daily Mail claimed that the Queen had privately opposed legislatn regardg same-sex marriage bee of her Christian fah. ” But 2018, the outlet also reported that the queen’s first openly gay senr footman, Ollie Roberts, rigned after a seri of “huiatg motns.
NO, THE QUEEN WAS NOT AGAST GAY MARRIAGEADVOCATEPALACE STAFFERS ARE PHG BACK HARD AGAST A REPORT THAT ELIZABETH WASN’T PLEASED ABOUT LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BRA. TOM SYKROYALIST CORRPONNTUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 4:33PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 07, 2016 9:27AM EST POOL PHOTO BY CHRIS JACKSONSENR SOURC AT BUCKGHAM PALACE WERE PHG BACK HARD MONDAY AGAST CLAIMS THAT QUEEN ELIZABETH WAS OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE WHEN WAS TRODUCED THE U.K. 2013.THE MAIL MAK THE ASTONISHG CLAIM—WHICH GO AGAST HER MAJTY’S REPUTATN FOR TOLERANCE AND OPEN-MDNS— A NEW SERI PENNED BY GOSSIP LUMNIST RICHARD KAY LNCHG THE PAPER TODAY.THE MAIL CLAIMS THAT THE QUEEN DID NOT APPROVE OF THE LEGALIZATN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND EXPRSED HER TRATN TO A IEND AT THE HEIGHT OF THE NTROVERSY.THE IEND, ACRDG TO THE MAIL, SAID: “IT WAS THE ‘MARRIAGE’ THG THAT SHE THOUGHT WAS WRONG, BEE MARRIAGE OUGHT TO BE SACROSANCT BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN.” HOWEVER, SOURC AT THE PALACE POURED LD WATER ON THOSE CLAIMS. “IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THAT ONE OF HER IENDS WOULD PASS ON HER THOUGHTS TO THE MAIL,” SNIFFED ONE SENR URTIER TO THE DAILY BEAST.PALACE STAFF—MANY OF WHOM ARE GAY—ARE HAMSTNG BY THE FACT THAT THE QUEEN MATAS STRICT POLIL NTRALY AND WOULD NEVER PUBLICLY MENT EHER WAY ABOUT ISSU SUCH AS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.HOWEVER, ONE URTIER DID MAKE AN EXPLIC—FOR THEM— NUNCIATN OF THE CLAIMS BY EMAILG THE DAILY BEAST A LK TO A PIECE PK NEWS WHICH THE GAY TV PRENTER AND EDIAN STEPHEN FRY REUNTED THE FOLLOWG STORY: “WHEN THE QUEEN SIGNED THE ROYAL ASSENT FOR THE EQUAL MARRIAG ACT, ALLOWG GAY PEOPLE TO MARRY FOR THE FIRST TIME, SHE PUT DOWN AND SAID ‘WELL, WHO’D HAVE THOUGHT 62 YEARS AGO WHEN I ME TO THE THRONE, I’D BE SIGNG SOMETHG LIKE THIS? ISN’T WONRFUL?’”ALTHOUGH FRY SAYS THE STORY IS APOCRYPHAL, THE FACT THAT PALACE STAFFERS WERE READY TO EMAIL THE STORY TO AN K-STAED WRETCH IS A PRETTY CLEAR SIGN THAT THEY NSIR THE MAIL’S REPORT TO BE ACCURATE, AND A MISCHARACTERIZATN OF THE QUEEN’S VIEWS.“WE’RE NOT GOG TO GET TO A DID SHE / DIDN’T SHE,” SAID THE SOURCE, BUT LLED THE STORY “SPUR AND UNSUBSTANTIATED.”QUEEN ELIZABETH HAS PREVLY SIGNALED HER SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS VERY PUBLIC WAYS.SHE WAS A PASSNATE SUPPORTER OF A “COMMONWEALTH CHARTER” SIGNED 2013 WHICH CLARED: “WE ARE IMPLABLY OPPOSED TO ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMATN, WHETHER ROOTED GENR, RACE, LOUR, CREED, POLIL BELIEF, OR OTHER GROUNDS.”THE ”OTHER GROUNDS” REFERRED TO SEXUALY—BUT SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO ”GAYS AND LBIANS” WAS OMTED FOR FEAR OF UPSETTG COMMONWEALTH UNTRI WH DRANIAN ANTI-GAY LAWS.THE QUEEN, UNLIKE HER SON CHARL, HAS STUDLY MATAED AN APOLIL STANCE THROUGHOUT HER REIGN.SHE APPEARED TO TERVENE THE STTISH PENNCE REFERENDUM WHEN SHE TOLD A GROUP OF WELL-WISHERS OUTSI SANDRGHAM CHURCH TO “THK VERY REFULLY ABOUT THE FUTURE” THE DAY BEFORE THE VOTE.IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE QUEEN WAS URGED TO SPEAK AFTER AN APPEAL OM DOWNG STREET, AS THE OUT MPAIGN GAED GROUND, BUT THIS ALLEGATN HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN OR ACKNOWLEDGED.THERE IS LTLE DOUBT THAT THE QUEEN WAS LIGHTED WH THE RULT WHEN THE STS VOTED NOT TO LEAVE THE U.K.PRIME MISTER DAVID CAMERON WAS UGHT ON AN OPEN MICROPHONE TELLG MICHAEL BLOOMBERG THAT SHE “PURRED” WH HAPPS DOWN THE LE WHEN HE PHONED HER WH THE RULT. TOM SYK
” The rignatn was supposedly rponse to prs verage that merely noted that Roberts was gay, whout him havg spoken to the media at the law is rarely enforced, reports claim that s existence creat a hostile climate for the untry’s LGBTQ+ populatn. July 17, 2013, 2:09 PM UTCLONDON -- Bra has legalized gay marriage after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval on of Commons Speaker John Berw told lawmakers that the royal assent had been given — the day after the bill to legalize same-sex marriage England and Wal cleared Parliament. It clears the way for the first gay marriag next summer.
The bill enabl gay upl to get married both civil and relig ceremoni England and Wal.
It also will allow upl who had prevly entered to a civil partnership to nvert their relatnship to a Associated PrsRelated:Costa Ri may get gay marriage after legislature's 'accintal' voteFirst gay marriage celebrated FranceNew Zealand be 13th untry to legalize gay marriage.
WHY THE QUEEN BELIEVED GAY MARRIAGE SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED
France has also legalized gay marriag, but only after a seri of gigantic protts attractg fai om the tradnal heartland that revealed a eply spl society. "Its Official: Queen Elizabeth II Signs Gay Marriage Bill Into Law England and WalQueen Elizabeth II durg the first day of the Coronatn Ftival the grounds of Buckgham Palace on July 11, 2013 London, England. Cred: Getty ImagThere were Brish polil figur and relig lears vehemently opposed to gay marriage but the opposn never reached a fever pch, part bee the same-sex marriage bill had broad public support and the backg of the lears of the three major polil parti.
"The law was also wrten a way that allowed the Church of England -- which is opposed -- to sistep the ntroversy sce is explicly barred om nductg same-sex Official: Queen Elizabeth II Signs Gay Marriage Bill Into Law England and WalA gay mpaigner wav the rabow flag durg a rally outsi the Ho of Parliament as the Marriage (Same Sex Coupl) Bill gets an unopposed third readg by the Lords central London on July 15, 2013.
QUEEN ELIZABETH ON GAY MARRIAGE: "IT'S WONRFUL"
Gay marriage was set to be legalised England and Wal after the ntroversial Bill troducg cleared the Lords today. Few people had expected legalizg gay marriage to face much of a hurdle. French polls had shown for more than a that the ncept enjoyed majory public support, and Paris has had a gay mayor for to outsirs, of urse, France is seen as the land of "anythg go" when to sex -- om the Marquis Sa to thor Colette to disgraced French polician Domique Strss-Kahn, notor for his liberte sex parti.
Legalizg gay marriage was near the bottom of French Print Franis Hollan's 36-pot agenda for his princy. It was mentned passg durg his printial mpaign but was never an issue that galvanized opposn, and was entirely eclipsed by ncerns about the, somethg clicked the nservative heartland -- which showed jt how much of a force is French Official: Queen Elizabeth II Signs Gay Marriage Bill Into Law England and WalQueen Elizabeth II the royal box durg the Coronatn Ftival Eveng Gala at Buckgham Palace on July 11, 2013 London, England. Cred: Getty ImagWhen the law was drafted and the ia of gays marryg turned om ncept to imment realy, tradnalists spoke up, and loudly.
Opponents of the bill stirred up fears about gay parents raisg France's new generatns. Some nservative Mlims and Jews joed marchg agast gay marriage, the monstrators also seemed to be prottg eewheelg Paris life, the image of a wanton, satiable French sexualy celebrated films and art -- but far om the realy of many provcial French fai. For a time early 2013, France felt like a eply divid the size of the anti-gay marriage movement was largely the rult of a polil backlash agast Hollan, whose populary dived soon after his electn over his handlg of the movement was the right vehicle at the right time to target Hollan and his Socialists.