‘The kg and his hband’: The gay history of Brish royals - The Washgton Post

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

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 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.

QUEER KGS & QUEENS: WAS JAM I & VI GAY?

)“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.

5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY

”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.

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

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.

LET’S EXPLORE THE STORY OF BIBLIL NAMAKE KG JAM I AND HIS LIFELONG GAY LOVER

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. 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.