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- ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
- QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED
‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
Why was Queen Anne important? Was she gay? And did she have 17 pet bunni? * was queen anne gay *
That's thanks to playwright Christopher Marlowe, who 1594 published Edward II, wily nsired “the gay, homosexual, queer play of the Renaissance, ” says Judh Haber, an English profsor at tumultuo reign of England’s Edward II lasted om 1307 to 1327, but his legacy would lger much longer the Brish nscns. There is never nclive evince of jt what a given monarch was gettg up to the bedroom, and as the panoply of LGBTQ+ scriptors and tegori had yet to be vented, ’s somewhat accurate by fn to say a kg was gay.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED
* was queen anne gay *
Stewart not that the play begs s eback the 1890s, when Osr Wil was beg tried for homosexualy. The first same-sex kiss on Brish televisn took place durg the BBC's broadst of the play, starrg none other than Ian the Guardian, McKellen’s star Timothy Wt remembered him portrayg Edward as “unapologetilly gay, ” an artistic choice which ed “somethg of a stir. It might’ve been n by a gaggle of gays, but that wasn’t the pot.
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