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.
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.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
(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.
”“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. 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.