Why Prcs Diana's Weddg Was a Gay Comg-of-Age Moment

Contents:

• US TABLOID CLAIMS PRCE CHARL IS GAY, SPLASH PHOTOS OF SNDALO 'KISS'
• PRCE CHARL NSIRED GAY TURN BEFORE MARRYG DIANA
• IS KG CHARL... GAY? AN ENTRY A BOOK CLAIMS HE TOLD THIS TO DIANA WHEN SHE PRSURED HIM TO HAVE SEX
• BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE
• PRCE CHARL TOLD IENDS HE ULD ‘GO GAY’ BEFORE MARRYG DIANA

US TABLOID CLAIMS PRCE CHARL IS GAY, SPLASH PHOTOS OF SNDALO 'KISS'

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.

PRCE CHARL NSIRED GAY TURN BEFORE MARRYG DIANA

”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa.

IS KG CHARL... GAY? AN ENTRY A BOOK CLAIMS HE TOLD THIS TO DIANA WHEN SHE PRSURED HIM TO HAVE SEX

Young as “​​the most proment homosexual figure the early morn perd.

BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE

)“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.

PRCE CHARL TOLD IENDS HE ULD ‘GO GAY’ BEFORE MARRYG DIANA

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.