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Contents:

• A ROYAL SECRET: THE TRIGUG TE STORY OF KG GTAF V, SWEN'S FIRST GAY KG
• YOUNG ROYALS: FANS GO WILD FOR NETFLIX'S 'GAY, TEENAGE VERSN OF THE CROWN'
• WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE ROYAL WEDDG WERE GAY
• STOCKHOLM: THE GAY CAPAL OF SNDAVIA
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

A ROYAL SECRET: THE TRIGUG TE STORY OF KG GTAF V, SWEN'S FIRST GAY KG

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.

YOUNG ROYALS: FANS GO WILD FOR NETFLIX'S 'GAY, TEENAGE VERSN OF THE CROWN'

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

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

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE ROYAL WEDDG WERE GAY

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.

“I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported. A new Swedish mi seri looks at the clanste affair the 1930s between a Swedish kg and a male rtratr, a ptivatg portrayal of love agast the odds that unvers the homophobia and human rights ab of recent tim. En Kunglig Affär, as is lled Swedish, tells the story of the secret relatnship between Stockholm rtrantr Kurt Haijby and Kg Gtaf V the 1930s, at a time when homosexualy was a crimal offence Swen.

LGBT-iendly royal fai – Norway’s Kg Harald, Swen’s Kg Karl, Spa’s Kg Felipe and India’s outspoken gay Prce Manvendra. Pictured: Edv Rydg as Prce Wilhelm'Young Royals is fely a level up on Netflix's talogue, and they released after pri month and makg purely as a queer story, not jt some another profable trash gay si storyle. History Is Gay.

STOCKHOLM: THE GAY CAPAL OF SNDAVIA

What better way to start off the ld, wtery season than wh a new episo of History Is Gay and a trip to, as Rene Drt said, the land of rocks and ice and bears? II by WhlockeGLBTQ Archive: Swen Books and Prt Articl:Christa, Queen of Swen: The Rtls Life of a European Eccentric by Veroni BuckleyQueer, There and Everywhere by Sarah PragerSurpassg the Love of Men by Lillian FarmanWho’s Who Gay & Lbian History ed. Even though some societi embraced homosexualy, most refed to accept a gay monarch.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

But before we talk about LGBTQ+ kgs and queens, let's start wh the history of sexual terms heterosexual and homosexual didn't exist until the 1860s. To others, though, Richard I is a gay in. An art historian disvered a 400-year-old portra of Gee Villiers, the former De of Buckgham who is thought to have been the gay lover of Kg Jam VI and I, the Brish ler om 1567 to 1625 who missned a btsellg book known as The Kg Jam Bible.

Hovn’s bed ment may be more of a polil metaphor than a leral one — polics do make strange bedfellows, after all — but even still, Richard I has long been lnized as a gay in. The plays of both possibly-gay English playwright Christopher Marlowe and totally-gay English playwright Derek Jarman both picted Edward II as gay. Totally gay.