Kg Jam was Gay

Contents:

• 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
• THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG
• GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS
• KG'S BEDWARMER: A GAY MEDIEVAL ROMANCE
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
• TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?

5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY

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. 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. 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.

THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG

Totally gay. Are there any medieval lers that we know were homosexual? Even though some societi embraced homosexualy, most refed to accept a gay monarch.

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. The Uned Kgdom has dified marriage equaly (the untry is on that track 2013) and this heir to the throne is married to someone of the same the gay kg or queen's spoe have a royal tle?

Turns out there have been many royals the past that had tongu waggg over their mored gay ways:Kg William II (1056-1100)Transgenr activist Diana Lobeck recently scribed William II, an effemate, never-married medieval kg, as an "unsung hero of the LGBTQ muny. Richard I (1157-1199)Richard the Lnheart, often portrayed as gay films (notably by Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter), was lled a "gay in" by U. Derek Jarman's 1991 film Edward II was based on the play and went a lot further than Marlowe, wh gay sex and oodl of I (1566-1625)Although married, Kg Jam is often remembered as bisexual, and members of his urt lled him "Queen Jam.

GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS

" In honor of the kg, who spearhead an English-language translatn of the Bible, there's a morn versn that expung all the antigay referenc tled Queen Jam Anne (1665-1714)Queen Anne's iendship wh Sarah Churchill -- founr of the Churchill-Spencer dynasty, which produced Wston Churchill and Diana, Prcs of Wal -- was likely very close. In our md, Edward II is always the gay kg, so we feel some sort of affectn for him jt on that basis. Was Edward II gay?

Marlowe is wily accepted to have been gay. This wasn’t the first time that he’d addrsed gay relatnships his work, but Edward II was the most explicly and sympathetilly gay character that Marlowe had tackled. Gay Inter Medievalism: Erotic Story Archiv, the Middle Ag, and Contemporary Gay Inty - 24 Hours accs.

(shelved 1 time as gay-medieval-knights).

KG'S BEDWARMER: A GAY MEDIEVAL ROMANCE

Epics like the Ramayana, Mahabharata and even templ of Khajuraho give enough peep to the ancient tim of India to tablish that homosexualy was practice. That the scriptur never approved of is altogether a different rights activists takg part the Bengalu Gay Pri March 2017. (File photo: Getty Imag)Ne years after the Delhi High Court crimalised homosexual acts among nsentg adults by readg down Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co (IPC), the Supreme Court today began hearg the matter.

Implemented 1860 by the Brish lonial lers, Sectn 377 puts homosexualy unr unnatural offenc providg for sentence up to life imprisonment. A bunch of petns challenged the wordgs Sectn 377, "whoever voluntarily has rnal terurse agast the orr of nature wh any man, woman or animal" sayg vlated the rights of a sectn of society reprented by lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenrs (LGBT). The Delhi High Court on July 2, 2009 pronounced a judgment makg voluntary homosexual act between adults as legal.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

Homosexualy ancient India: 10 potsIn the templ of Khajuraho, there are imag of women erotilly embracg other women and men displayg their genals to each other. Scholars have generally explaed this as an acknowledgement that people engaged homosexual acts. The famo law , Manmri provis for punishment to homosexual men and women.

In the se of homosexual mal, Manmri says that sexual unn between wh two men brgs loss of ste. The nth chapter of the Kamasutra of Vatsyayana -- posed around 4th century BC, talks about oral sexual acts (Auparistaka), homosexualy and also of siar activi among transgenrs (triya prakri). The book, however, do not favour homosexualy of any kd.

TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?

Arthashastra of Ktilya -- a treatise on polics -- also mentns homosexualy.