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Contents:
- THE GAY KNIGHT
- TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?
- 'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL
- GAY KNIGHT FEATS DRAGON, MARRI THE PRCE HOBOKEN THOR’S NEW CHILDREN’S BOOK
- WAS JONATHAN KNIGHT FORCED TO E OUT AS GAY? HOW THE SGER'S LOVE LIFE AND SEXUALY WAS CELLY OUTED
THE GAY KNIGHT
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I have been asked on several ocsns whether the Knights Templar were gay.
One er got que irate when I sisted you uldn’t classify the Templars as a medieval LGBT anisatn – though that’s not to say some of the knights weren’t gay.
Homosexual love is as old as humany but LGBT inty as we unrstand today is que morn. So – why this associatn between the Knights Templar and homosexualy?
TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?
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So what were the accatns levelled agast the Templars that gave rise to the ia many were gay?
'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL
Ithier of Rochefort unr torture admted to “obscene” kiss and “the cement to homosexualy”. Ralph of Granville had homosexualy “enjoed upon him” via the ual kiss. When alg wh other heri, the church and s quisn often saw homosexualy as a symptom of hery.
Addg homosexualy to the mix was a given. Templars, homosexualy and s.
GAY KNIGHT FEATS DRAGON, MARRI THE PRCE HOBOKEN THOR’S NEW CHILDREN’S BOOK
If you were gay the Middle Ag, then jog a brotherhood of some scriptn was a good way to avoid that faiar and annoyg qutn at fay gathergs:. “For all the gay parents who have shared the book wh their kids and who have told me they wish they had somethg like this when they were young, I’ve heard om jt as many straight parents who love . For all the gay parents who have shared the book wh their kids and who have told me they wish they had somethg like this when they were young, I’ve heard om jt as many straight parents who love .
From Kg Arthur’s “ebullience” (le 86) all the way to the sexually charged tras wh the lord near the Green Knight’s rince, the poem n be taken to have a posive view of homosexualy, an almost unthkable thg at the time. To fd this endorsement of homosexualy, one mt look at the portrayal of men the story vers women, and take that thread to one of s many logil nclns.
The next major character troduced the poem is the eponymo Green Knight, and if one thought they were safe om homoerotic overton sce this character is the enemy, they would be sadly mistaken.
WAS JONATHAN KNIGHT FORCED TO E OUT AS GAY? HOW THE SGER'S LOVE LIFE AND SEXUALY WAS CELLY OUTED
” (1L 818-819) If the homoerotic imagery stopped there, one uld merely attribute to a misterpreted image, but throughout this entire sectn, we make referenc to Gawa beg “assisted by several men, ” (le 822) and havg people eager “to serve this noble knight. This promise of mararie wh all men, and this summary rejectn of all feme charms, mak easy to read Gawa as a closeted, or perhaps not closeted, gay knight.
This full-fledged approval of masculy, and the rather homoerotic unrton throughout a majory of the poem, seems to make a strong se for Sir Gawa beg a gay man Kg Arthur’s urt.