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.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
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 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.