‘The kg and his hband’: The gay history of Brish royals - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• IS KG GEE GAY QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY?
• HISTOIREL’HISTOIRE C PRC GAYS QU’ON NO A LONGTEMPS CHéE
• GE GAY
• HOMOSEXUELS ET BISEXUELS CéLèBR

‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

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.

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.

IS KG GEE GAY QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY?

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.

”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.

HISTOIREL’HISTOIRE C PRC GAYS QU’ON NO A LONGTEMPS CHéE

“I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported. ”The speculatn that Edward II’s relatnships wh the men went beyond iendship was fueled by Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play “Edward II”, which is often noted for s homoerotic portrayal of Edward II and VI and I, who reigned over Stland and later England and Ireland until his ath 1625, attracted siar scty for his male favor, a term ed for panns and advisers who had special preference wh monarchs. Bergeron theoriz his book “Kg Jam and Letters of Homoerotic Dire”: “The scriptn that mov across the letters spell sire.

GE GAY

No, Kg Gee is not gay ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. ’ However, homosexualy durg his time is still nsired unacceptable society, which is why his footman, Reynolds, who is love wh Queen Charlotte’s footman, Brimsley, keeps his sexualy a secret.

Read More: Is Brimsley Gay? Il nvac son homologue ançais et ami, Philippe, l'acpagner dans une nouvelle croisa chrétienne. C’t avec Philippe Manci, un nev du Cardal Mazar, que Monsir déuvre le « vice alien », terme alors employé pour parler d’homosexualé.

HOMOSEXUELS ET BISEXUELS CéLèBR

Sa première époe, Henriette d’Angleterre t follement éprise du roi lui-même mais do se ntenter son ère homosexuel. Dans cette importante rrpondance, elle ose qualifier l préférenc homosexuell son époux … « mal ançais ».Ce qu'en disaient l chroniqurs l'époque : « C’éta un pet homme vent, monté sur s échass tant s souliers étaient hts, toujours paré me une femme, ple bagu, bracelets et pierreri partout, avec une longue perque toute étalée vant, noire et poudrée et s bans partout où il pouva mettre, ple sort parfums et en tout chos la propreté même. Déprsif chronique jqu’à la f sa vie, il n’arrive pas à gérer l affair poliqu, trop troublé par son homosexualé qu’il saie réprimer.

Le rapport médil ne fa cune alln à son homosexualé, mais dans le pays, personne n’t dupe.Ce qu'en disaient l chroniqurs l'époque : « Il nçut la vie me un spectacle dont il prétend régler l détails à son gré, vant être l'unique spectatr. Terme qui sera ensue associé à l’homosexualé.Pourtant Henri III a aimé s femm… mos une.

Mix vt un monarque nuque qu’homosexuel.Une fois sur le trône, Frédéric II s’stalle châte Sans-Souci à Postdam où il se pose une ur uniquement mascule. Il entretient avec ce rnier une sorte relatn platonique, qui n’ira jamais pl lo : Voltaire étant particulièrement homophobe. Pharaons, emperrs, rois ou prc, ils ont nnu le pouvoir "malgré" lr homosexualé.