History Undrsed: Gut Author Richard Warren Field: Was Richard the Lnheart Gay?

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Kg Richard II was probably gay. He was born 1367. Apparently there were gays even back then. Richard had two wiv and no children by eher of them. For the kg of England, that’s a b tellg, given the emphasis on leage that go wh beg royal. He also...

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GAY HISTORY: THE CUR RELATNSHIP BETWEEN RICHARD THE LNHEART AND KG PHILIP II OF FRANCE

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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.

Totally gay.

RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN

He suggts a homosexual relatnship between the kg and one of his favore urtiers, Robert Vere (Sl, 437). For the past half-century, Richard the Lnheart - that buff, bronzed warrr who hardly saw his wife and had no children - has been somethg of a gay in.

As a prence on the silver screen (most famoly the shape of the young Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter) his homosexualy has rarely been doubt. English history isn't short of gay or bisexual monarchs - Edward II, Jam I, possibly William II - but the historil evince for untg Richard I among their number rts on one ntemporary document ncerng his relatnship wh Kg Philip II of France.

WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?

Kg Richard II was probably gay.

Apparently there were gays even back then. Wh much foc on urt trigue over Louis’ affair wh his gay brother’s wife (Lley Kirsten Smh) and a mistrs (Andra Carlson), Power has the tillatg soap-operatic elements of so many Masterpiece Theatre histori.

Was Richard the Lnheart Gay? Everythg was route until the last two sentenc: “In strikg ntrast to his father, and wh Kg John [his brother] he was, there seems no doubt, a homosexual.

CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART

Now please don’t get me wrong—I have nothg agast gays.

If Richard the Lnheart was gay, then that would be the character I would wre about.

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