Many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret.
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5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
Were there any gay vikgs? Was homosexualy allowed their culture? Homosexual rape was monplace Vikg culture, wh feated enemi typilly beg victims of sexual asslt a show of domatn and huiatn.
Unlike early Christiany, Vikg culture did not regard homosexualy as nately evil or perverted. However, this do not mean that the Vikgs did not attach certa stigmas to homosexual nduct, particular, to those who received rather than gave. Beg ed a homosexual nature by another man was equally nnected to the tra of wardice, an immensely shameful scriptn Vikg society, due to the historic ctom of sexual vlence agast a feated enemy.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
Due to this cultural nnectn of homosexual nduct wh submissn, domance, and feat, the engagement of same-sex nsensual relatns wh a close iend was regard as an immensely offensive and shameful ed.
“The Vikgs and Homosexualy”, Gunnora Hallakarva, Fordham Universy. 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.