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Contents:

• 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
• RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
• WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
• GAY KG RICHARD
• CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART

5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY

For the past half-century, Richard the Lnheart - that buff, bronzed warrr who hardly saw his wife and had no children - has been somethg of a gay in. As a prence on the silver screen (most famoly the shape of the young Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter) his homosexualy has rarely been doubt.

English history isn't short of gay or bisexual monarchs - Edward II, Jam I, possibly William II - but the historil evince for untg Richard I among their number rts on one ntemporary document ncerng his relatnship wh Kg Philip II of France. Centuri before homosexualy was ma legal between nsentg adults 1967, the ‘love that dare not speak s name’ was viewed as a s England, particularly by the church, and technilly punishable by ath.

It is not surprisg that many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret.

RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN

Known as ‘Ruf’ due to his ddy plexn and red hair, the third son of William the Conqueror beme Kg of England 1087 and is assumed to have been gay or bisexual.

The fourth son of Henry II, he is also believed to have been homosexual spe marryg Berengaria of Navarre. William II, lled "Ruf" for his reddish plexn, never married or fathered children, leadg to speculatn that he was gay. There is signifint evince that he was gay, although historians differ on this pot.

WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?

Richard has been portrayed equently on stage and film; The Ln Wter (1968), which he was played by Anthony Hopks, strongly suggted he was gay, while Sean Connery offered a thoroughly heterosexual pictn Rob Hood: Prce of Thiev (1991) urty Natnal Portra Gallery of London. Many historians believe Edward II, kg om 1307 to 1327, was gay or bisexual. Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II picts the kg as gay, and Derek Jarman ma a stunng and explic film based on the play urty Natnal Portra Gallery of London.

Fundamentalist Christians often pot to the Kg Jam Versn of the Bible as the five edn, but do they stop to thk was missned and overseen by a man who was likely gay or bi? For the past century, Richard the Lnheart has been seen as a gay in leadg the list of Brish LGBTQ+ monarchs alongsi Kg Jam I and Queen Anne of England. Was Richard the Lnheart gay?

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

However, there’s a small piece of historil evince that many historians took as clear proof that Richard the Lnheart was gay.

Other historians have voted their rearch to monstrate that more than the gay in morny has turned Richard the Lnheart to, he was actually a very astute polician who knew perfectly well the l of polics to keep his power and ambns.

GAY KG RICHARD

Now, let’s be clear, this don’t mean he pretend to be gay to make allianc; actually has to do more wh the nventns of the time. As we talked, the ma evince historians who believe Richard the Lnheart was gay is that extract om Hoven’s chronicl where he stat that Richard and Philip spent some nights together. Now whether he was gay or not, don’t really matter.

CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART

The gay actor has chatted up untls guts on the midway as “Percy” over the years, and the persona has ma him a Pl Lyn-like ambassador of queer sensibily to Joe and Jane Q.

Although there’s bound to be reprentatn om LGBTQ actors, staffers and guts jt about any time the fairground is open, Columb Day Weekend has bee a b of an unofficial gay weekend, acrdg to Ryan Roy, productn director at Kg Richard’s.

Even though some societi embraced homosexualy, most refed to accept a gay monarch.