Benedict IX (r. 1033-1045; 1047-1048)Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher, The First Gay Pope and Other Rerds, rightly lled Benedict IX (r. 1033-1045; 1047-1048) “the first pope known to be primarily homosexual.” Benedict’s pontifite, which “turned the Vatin to a male brothel,” was so sndalo that he was posed, not once but twice.Benedict IX (1021--. 1052) was…
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21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–44; 1045; 1047–48) served three terms and he was known as one hell of a Pope. He was acced of almost every vile Satanic s the book cludg but not limed to bribery, simony, adultery, murr, rape, and pedophilia. Benedict IX threw gay i the Lateran Palace and engaged * pope benedict ix gay *
While the Roman Catholic Church has long nmned homosexual acts as sful, history neverthels shows many of the church’s lears engaged same-sex love. There is evince that of the 266 pop history, nearly a dozen were gay, bisexual or, one se, transgenr. John XII (955-964)This church lear would mol his papacy on the le of Roman Emperor Elagabol, a potentially transgenr liberte, and would host gay i the papal palace, acrdg to historian Wayne Dyn’s Encyclopedia of Homosexualy.
Benedict IX (1033-1045; 1047-1048)Consired by many to be the first “primarily homosexual” pope, Benedict would be acced of turng the Vatin to a “male brothel, ” acrdg to rearcher Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher. Boniface VIII (1294-1303)Kg Philip IV of France, an enemy of the pope, would dispatch spi to gather rmatn on Boniface, and based on reports om Roman aristocrats, he would publicly acce the pope of sodomy, acrdg to Who’s Who Gay and Lbian History: From Antiquy to World War II.
Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher, "First Gay Pope", lled Benedict IX (r. 1033-1045; 1047-1048) “the first pope known to be primarily homosexual.” Benedict’s pontifite, which “turned the Vatin to a male brothel,” was so sndalo that he was posed not once, but twice.Benedict IX (1021--. 1052) was the son of the unt of Tculum. He imated… * pope benedict ix gay *
John XXII (1316-1334)While there’s ls bountiful evince than wh other pop, John XXII ma the list of gay pop clud Noel Gar’s 1964 tome Jonathan to Gi: The Homsexual History. This may have been an suatn about a predisposn toward fancy cloth and fe thgs, or uld have been a timatn of the church lear’s homosexualy, the latter of which earned Pl II k Arno Karlen’s Sexualy and Homosexualy. But Sixt, born Franc lla Rovere, also would be known for favorism, cludg elevatg his male lover (and nephew) Petro Riaro to Cardal, acrdg to Louis Crompton’s Homosexualy and Civilizatn.
The ntroversial pope also would have to al wh sndal about his sexualy, wh an anonymo pamphlet circulated Rome allegg Leo has taken multiple gay lovers. Cardal Francis Joseph Spellman (1939-1967)The rdal, who was archbishop of New York at the time of his ath, was surround for years by mors of his homosexualy, wh bgrapher John Cooney statg he terviewed at least four dividuals wh personal knowledge of Spellman’s leangs, acrdg to journalist Michelangelo Signorile.