The sexualy of Kg Jam VI of Stland & I of England has been long bated by historians. He is long held as an example of an openly gay kg paradg his lovers for all the urt to see. Meanwhile, his passnate love letters to his ‘male favour’ are held up by those who disagree…
Contents:
- ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
- QUEER KGS & QUEENS: WAS JAM I & VI GAY?
- 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
- WAS KG JAM I REALLY GAY?JENNIFER R. POVEY·FOLLOW3 M READ·OCT 8, 2020--2SHAREPHOTO BY MYA IVANOV ON UNSPLASHAH Y, KG JAM. THAT KG JAM. THE ONE WHO PAID FOR A TRANSLATN OF THE BIBLE. HE WAS JAM VI OF STLAND AND JAM I OF ENGLAND, SUCCEEDG ELIZABETH I AFTER SHE DIED WHOUT AN HEIR.AND SUPPOSEDLY, HE WAS GAY.WHICH, OF URSE, SOME ISSU FOR THOSE WHO THK THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS PROFOUND.SO, WAS HE?LET’S EXAME THE EVINCE.JAM I WAS MARRIEDWHICH, OF URSE, MEANS NOTHG. BUT HE ALSO FATHERED NO LS THAN EIGHT CHILDREN, OF WHOM THREE SURVIVED TO ADULT. HIS WIFE WAS ANNE, THE DGHTER OF THE KG OF DENMARK AND NORWAY.THIS WAS, OF URSE, AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE. SO, PIECE OF EVINCE AGAST JAM I BEG GAY: HE HAD A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH A WOMAN, ALBE ONE NOT OF HIS CHOOSG, AND WAS ABLE TO PERFORM WELL ENOUGH TO FATHER CHILDREN.OF URSE, NOT ALL GAY MEN EXPERIENCE VAGA REPULSN AND HE WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE TO FATHER A LOT OF CHILDREN, GIVEN ENGLAND’S EXPERIENCE WH THE TUDORS.JAM I HAD SEVERAL MALE LOVERS
- LET’S EXPLORE THE STORY OF BIBLIL NAMAKE KG JAM I AND HIS LIFELONG GAY LOVER
‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
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QUEER KGS & QUEENS: WAS JAM I & VI GAY?
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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. )“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.
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. ”The archde spent the rt of his life secln at Klsheim Palace near Salzburg, where he died at the age of 76 1919, three years after his brother’s ath and one year after the Atro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved after the end of World War II of Buganda (1868 - 1903)Discsn of Uganda’s treatment of homosexualy ually settl on Print Yoweri Meveni’s “Kill the Gays” bill, but this 19th century kabaka, or kg, of Buganda allegedly had sexual relatnships wh men along wh his 16 1886, Mwanga II orred the btal torture and aths of dozens of urtiers and pag, wh many burned alive. ”The speculatn that Edward II’s relatnships wh the men went beyond iendship was fueled by Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play “Edward II”, which is often noted for s homoerotic portrayal of Edward II and VI and I, who reigned over Stland and later England and Ireland until his ath 1625, attracted siar scty for his male favor, a term ed for panns and advisers who had special preference wh monarchs.
Exactly how “Christian” Florence Nightgale was, or Dunant (founr of the Internatnal Red Cross), or Barton (founr of the Amerin Red Cross) pends on whether you also believe that eethkg anti-Trarians, Universalists, mystics, and gays, n all be nsired “te Christians. This would seem to be evince enough that Jam uldn’t possibly have been volved homosexual relatns, but rts heavily on the assumptn that a relatnship between two men trsilly volved perative sex. Regardls of whether you nsir Jam I & VI gay, bisexual, or anythg on the LGBTQ+ rabow, the double standard when lookg at his ncrete relatnships wh men vers a potential reference to Anne Murray is obv.
5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
We will return to this associatn between his grandmother’s readg of the KJV and her love for him our ncludg three ma purpos of this article are (1) to prent ntemporary arguments that the qutn whether Kg Jam had homosexual tennci has enormo signifince for how one views the Kg Jam Bible and petg translatns; (2) to review recent historil rearch that prents Kg Jam as havg had homosexual tennci; and (3) to prent our own nclns ncerng the signifince of this historil rearch for how the Kg Jam Bible may be viewed by Bible rears ntemporary discsnThe Kg Jam Bible has been gag creasg scholarly attentn recent years (see, for example, Daniell 2003; Katz 2004; McGrath 2001; Moynahan 2002; Nilson 2003).
This view is sometim lled the “Kg Jam Only” (KJO) not all of the attentn pleas those cled to support the KJO posn, bee a nsirable amount of this attentn is due to discsn of Kg Jam’s own sexualy, particularly ncerng the qutn whether he had homosexual translatn and homosexualyIn The Facts on the Kg Jam Only Debate, Ankenberg and Weldon (1996) discs homosexualy and translatn mte. “Proponents of the KJO, ” they wre, “often claim that unbelievers, heretics, occultists, and/or homosexuals have been members of the edorial or translatn mte of the morn versns” (p. If a homosexual person is on the translatn mtee, so the argument go, then that translatn is obvly not of God, th nfirmg the superry of the Kg Jam Bible (as is also assumed that no one on the translatn mte of the Kg Jam Versn uld possibly have been homosexual).
The pot we want to lift up here, though, is that both of the thors attack the character of Kg Jam to suggt that the Kg Jam Bible is self ’s rebuttalNot surprisgly, the claim that Kg Jam had homosexual tennci has stirred up que a b of ntroversy among many supporters of the Kg Jam Bible. Gee Sweetg now Chancellor, and himself as the current Print of Moody that Kg Jam was fact a homosexual, and that such reportg was “reliable data and spirual nourishment for God’s people” (p. In his view, Kg Jam has been acced of homosexualy, and he vot a whole chapter to “Law & History, ” which he ntends that what we have the historgraphy of Kg Jam is a se of famatn of character.
WAS KG JAM I REALLY GAY?JENNIFER R. POVEY·FOLLOW3 M READ·OCT 8, 2020--2SHAREPHOTO BY MYA IVANOV ON UNSPLASHAH Y, KG JAM. THAT KG JAM. THE ONE WHO PAID FOR A TRANSLATN OF THE BIBLE. HE WAS JAM VI OF STLAND AND JAM I OF ENGLAND, SUCCEEDG ELIZABETH I AFTER SHE DIED WHOUT AN HEIR.AND SUPPOSEDLY, HE WAS GAY.WHICH, OF URSE, SOME ISSU FOR THOSE WHO THK THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS PROFOUND.SO, WAS HE?LET’S EXAME THE EVINCE.JAM I WAS MARRIEDWHICH, OF URSE, MEANS NOTHG. BUT HE ALSO FATHERED NO LS THAN EIGHT CHILDREN, OF WHOM THREE SURVIVED TO ADULT. HIS WIFE WAS ANNE, THE DGHTER OF THE KG OF DENMARK AND NORWAY.THIS WAS, OF URSE, AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE. SO, PIECE OF EVINCE AGAST JAM I BEG GAY: HE HAD A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH A WOMAN, ALBE ONE NOT OF HIS CHOOSG, AND WAS ABLE TO PERFORM WELL ENOUGH TO FATHER CHILDREN.OF URSE, NOT ALL GAY MEN EXPERIENCE VAGA REPULSN AND HE WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE TO FATHER A LOT OF CHILDREN, GIVEN ENGLAND’S EXPERIENCE WH THE TUDORS.JAM I HAD SEVERAL MALE LOVERS
He intifi those who argue that Kg Jam had homoerotic tennci or leangs as proponents of the “cril” view bee anyone who thks that Kg Jam was gay or bisexual is necsarily cricizg both the Kg and the Bible that bears his name. Although Coston is not a profsnal historian, he attempts to show that the claims that Kg Jam had homosexual tennci are not ground what he lls “classil historil methodology” (p. Even as his weak jaw and enlarged tongue explas his droolg that uld have been mistaken for French kissg, his general physil weakns acunts for his hab of hangg on other, light of the fact that the bedchamber is often ced as evince for Jam’s homosexual tennci, Coston claims that Kg Jam’s bedchamber practic were nothg out of the ordary—pecially given his physil disabili—as the practic helped protect the Kg agast plots agast his life.
82), as will be noted greater tail below, several historians have poted to the tranged relatnship between Jam and his wife and have ed this evince support of their view that he had homosexual tennci.
93), while others, pecially Bergeron (1999) have examed Jam’s letters ntext and intified the theme of homoeroticism them, Coston is not imprsed by the studi bee, on the basis of his own readg of the letters, he has nclud that “Jam ed was sentimental, but far om homosexual/bisexual” (Coston 1996, p. 75) short, Coston argu that there is ltle evince to suggt that Kg Jam was a homosexual person, and the evince that we seem to have needs to be terpreted light of the historil ntext. E., Jam was a godly man, godly men are not homosexual, therefore Jam uld not be homosexual) as follows: (1) ntemporari of Jam who acced him of homosexualy were his polil adversari and guilty of anti-Sttish bigotry; and (2) when our own ntemporari “acce” Jam of homosexualy, they are misreadg the evince.
LET’S EXPLORE THE STORY OF BIBLIL NAMAKE KG JAM I AND HIS LIFELONG GAY LOVER
We were also put off by the homophobia—here a leral fear of homosexualy—that seems to be drivg his arguments: “The most Jam’ statements n prove is that he had a close personal attachment to his iends and fay—and if this nvicts one of homosexualy we are all BIG trouble” (p. But he nclus om this lack of certaty about particular acts that Jam therefore did not have homosexual we will see, the se for or agast Jam’s homosexual tennci nnot, fally, be settled on such clear-cut behavral grounds.
In this regard, is rather ironic that Coston himself provis a great al of evince suggtg that Jam did fact have homoerotic feelgs toward several men the urse of his adult life.
Fally, notg that some have argued that David and Jonathan and J and John “were all probabily homosexual lovers, ” he argu that “simply bee Biblil characters kissed, profsed their love, scribed their relatnship as a unn or bond, and the like, this nnot prove homosexual tennci.