Queer Kgs & Queens: Was Jam I & VI gay? – History the (Re)Makg

Contents:

• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• LET’S EXPLORE THE STORY OF BIBLIL NAMAKE KG JAM I AND HIS LIFELONG GAY LOVER
• QUEER KGS & QUEENS: WAS JAM I & VI GAY?
• BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY
• WAS KG JAM I REALLY GAY?JENNIFER R. POVEY·FOLLOW3 M READ·OCT 8, 2020--2SHAREPHOTO BY MYA IVANOV ON UNSPLASHAH Y, KG JAM. THAT KG JAM. THE ONE WHO PAID FOR A TRANSLATN OF THE BIBLE. HE WAS JAM VI OF STLAND AND JAM I OF ENGLAND, SUCCEEDG ELIZABETH I AFTER SHE DIED WHOUT AN HEIR.AND SUPPOSEDLY, HE WAS GAY.WHICH, OF URSE, SOME ISSU FOR THOSE WHO THK THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS PROFOUND.SO, WAS HE?LET’S EXAME THE EVINCE.JAM I WAS MARRIEDWHICH, OF URSE, MEANS NOTHG. BUT HE ALSO FATHERED NO LS THAN EIGHT CHILDREN, OF WHOM THREE SURVIVED TO ADULT. HIS WIFE WAS ANNE, THE DGHTER OF THE KG OF DENMARK AND NORWAY.THIS WAS, OF URSE, AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE. SO, PIECE OF EVINCE AGAST JAM I BEG GAY: HE HAD A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH A WOMAN, ALBE ONE NOT OF HIS CHOOSG, AND WAS ABLE TO PERFORM WELL ENOUGH TO FATHER CHILDREN.OF URSE, NOT ALL GAY MEN EXPERIENCE VAGA REPULSN AND HE WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE TO FATHER A LOT OF CHILDREN, GIVEN ENGLAND’S EXPERIENCE WH THE TUDORS.JAM I HAD SEVERAL MALE LOVERS
• LOST PORTRA OF KG JAM’S GAY LOVER RURFAC AFTER 400 YEARS
• KG JAM GAY CLAIM REJECTED
• 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
• BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE

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

Exactly how “Christian” Florence Nightgale was, or Dunant (founr of the Internatnal Red Cross), or Barton (founr of the Amerin Red Cross) pends on whether you also believe that eethkg anti-Trarians, Universalists, mystics, and gays, n all be nsired “te Christians. The webs/articl that ny the homosexualy of Kg Jam seem fairly uned that the “evince” about Kg Jam was primarily the work of one man who really disliked him, and who spread the li about Jam after he died. The reason why most of the KJV only webs are so adamant nyg the homosexualy of Jam is primarily bee of people like the “guy on Facebook” (om above) who believe that if Kg Jam was a homosexual, means that God ndon homosexualy sce the KJV Bible has flourished so much.

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 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. )“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.

LET’S EXPLORE THE STORY OF BIBLIL NAMAKE KG JAM I AND HIS LIFELONG GAY LOVER

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. 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.

QUEER KGS & QUEENS: WAS JAM I & VI GAY?

We will return to this associatn between his grandmother’s readg of the KJV and her love for him our ncludg three ma purpos of this article are (1) to prent ntemporary arguments that the qutn whether Kg Jam had homosexual tennci has enormo signifince for how one views the Kg Jam Bible and petg translatns; (2) to review recent historil rearch that prents Kg Jam as havg had homosexual tennci; and (3) to prent our own nclns ncerng the signifince of this historil rearch for how the Kg Jam Bible may be viewed by Bible rears ntemporary discsnThe Kg Jam Bible has been gag creasg scholarly attentn recent years (see, for example, Daniell 2003; Katz 2004; McGrath 2001; Moynahan 2002; Nilson 2003).

This view is sometim lled the “Kg Jam Only” (KJO) not all of the attentn pleas those cled to support the KJO posn, bee a nsirable amount of this attentn is due to discsn of Kg Jam’s own sexualy, particularly ncerng the qutn whether he had homosexual translatn and homosexualyIn The Facts on the Kg Jam Only Debate, Ankenberg and Weldon (1996) discs homosexualy and translatn mte.

“Proponents of the KJO, ” they wre, “often claim that unbelievers, heretics, occultists, and/or homosexuals have been members of the edorial or translatn mte of the morn versns” (p.

BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY

If a homosexual person is on the translatn mtee, so the argument go, then that translatn is obvly not of God, th nfirmg the superry of the Kg Jam Bible (as is also assumed that no one on the translatn mte of the Kg Jam Versn uld possibly have been homosexual).

The pot we want to lift up here, though, is that both of the thors attack the character of Kg Jam to suggt that the Kg Jam Bible is self ’s rebuttalNot surprisgly, the claim that Kg Jam had homosexual tennci has stirred up que a b of ntroversy among many supporters of the Kg Jam Bible. Gee Sweetg now Chancellor, and himself as the current Print of Moody that Kg Jam was fact a homosexual, and that such reportg was “reliable data and spirual nourishment for God’s people” (p.

In his view, Kg Jam has been acced of homosexualy, and he vot a whole chapter to “Law & History, ” which he ntends that what we have the historgraphy of Kg Jam is a se of famatn of character. He intifi those who argue that Kg Jam had homoerotic tennci or leangs as proponents of the “cril” view bee anyone who thks that Kg Jam was gay or bisexual is necsarily cricizg both the Kg and the Bible that bears his name. Even as his weak jaw and enlarged tongue explas his droolg that uld have been mistaken for French kissg, his general physil weakns acunts for his hab of hangg on other, light of the fact that the bedchamber is often ced as evince for Jam’s homosexual tennci, Coston claims that Kg Jam’s bedchamber practic were nothg out of the ordary—pecially given his physil disabili—as the practic helped protect the Kg agast plots agast his life.

WAS KG JAM I REALLY GAY?JENNIFER R. POVEY·FOLLOW3 M READ·OCT 8, 2020--2SHAREPHOTO BY MYA IVANOV ON UNSPLASHAH Y, KG JAM. THAT KG JAM. THE ONE WHO PAID FOR A TRANSLATN OF THE BIBLE. HE WAS JAM VI OF STLAND AND JAM I OF ENGLAND, SUCCEEDG ELIZABETH I AFTER SHE DIED WHOUT AN HEIR.AND SUPPOSEDLY, HE WAS GAY.WHICH, OF URSE, SOME ISSU FOR THOSE WHO THK THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS PROFOUND.SO, WAS HE?LET’S EXAME THE EVINCE.JAM I WAS MARRIEDWHICH, OF URSE, MEANS NOTHG. BUT HE ALSO FATHERED NO LS THAN EIGHT CHILDREN, OF WHOM THREE SURVIVED TO ADULT. HIS WIFE WAS ANNE, THE DGHTER OF THE KG OF DENMARK AND NORWAY.THIS WAS, OF URSE, AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE. SO, PIECE OF EVINCE AGAST JAM I BEG GAY: HE HAD A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH A WOMAN, ALBE ONE NOT OF HIS CHOOSG, AND WAS ABLE TO PERFORM WELL ENOUGH TO FATHER CHILDREN.OF URSE, NOT ALL GAY MEN EXPERIENCE VAGA REPULSN AND HE WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE TO FATHER A LOT OF CHILDREN, GIVEN ENGLAND’S EXPERIENCE WH THE TUDORS.JAM I HAD SEVERAL MALE LOVERS

82), as will be noted greater tail below, several historians have poted to the tranged relatnship between Jam and his wife and have ed this evince support of their view that he had homosexual tennci. 93), while others, pecially Bergeron (1999) have examed Jam’s letters ntext and intified the theme of homoeroticism them, Coston is not imprsed by the studi bee, on the basis of his own readg of the letters, he has nclud that “Jam ed was sentimental, but far om homosexual/bisexual” (Coston 1996, p.

LOST PORTRA OF KG JAM’S GAY LOVER RURFAC AFTER 400 YEARS

75) short, Coston argu that there is ltle evince to suggt that Kg Jam was a homosexual person, and the evince that we seem to have needs to be terpreted light of the historil ntext. E., Jam was a godly man, godly men are not homosexual, therefore Jam uld not be homosexual) as follows: (1) ntemporari of Jam who acced him of homosexualy were his polil adversari and guilty of anti-Sttish bigotry; and (2) when our own ntemporari “acce” Jam of homosexualy, they are misreadg the evince. We were also put off by the homophobia—here a leral fear of homosexualy—that seems to be drivg his arguments: “The most Jam’ statements n prove is that he had a close personal attachment to his iends and fay—and if this nvicts one of homosexualy we are all BIG trouble” (p.

But he nclus om this lack of certaty about particular acts that Jam therefore did not have homosexual we will see, the se for or agast Jam’s homosexual tennci nnot, fally, be settled on such clear-cut behavral grounds. Fally, notg that some have argued that David and Jonathan and J and John “were all probabily homosexual lovers, ” he argu that “simply bee Biblil characters kissed, profsed their love, scribed their relatnship as a unn or bond, and the like, this nnot prove homosexual tennci. But if a man like Kg Jam fds another man handsome, keeps a picture of this man close by his heart, kiss him and profs his love public, and shar his bed wh him, are we prohibed om classifyg this behavr as maniftg “homosexual tennci” merely bee we do not have evince of anal terurse?

KG JAM GAY CLAIM REJECTED

Xxx) this is where the matter stands: on the one hand, there is what Coston lls “the official posn” of the Moody Bible Instute that the article by Karen Ann Wojahn provis “reliable data” that Kg Jam was the homosexual partner of Esme Stuart D’Aubigny and that this is self grounds for preferrg translatns of the Bible other than the KJV. He mentns this regard a spectacular performance of Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Blackns, “which ed nsternatn and sndal, partly on acunt of s extravagance, ” and then allus to Jam’s homosexual tennci:Further ncerns were exprsed over the kg’s creasgly obv homosexual tennci, which led to certa royal favor beg granted favors that were the subject of much ment and envy.

Unlike his thorough acunt of how the Kg Jam Bible me to beg, McGrath’s alln to Kg Jam’s “homosexual tennci” is exceedgly brief, a three sentence summary of a story that is equally fascatg. Bergeron’s (1991) Royal Fay, Royal Lovers: Kg Jam and England and Stland and Young’s (2000) Jam VI and I and the History of Homosexualy provi excellent bgraphil material relatg to Jam’s “homosexual tennci” and how the tennci were unrstood and terpreted by Jam’s own ntemporari.

5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY

To place the issue of Jam’s homosexual tennci ntext, is necsary for to provi a brief acunt of Kg Jam’s fay history, centerg pecially on the fact that he was separated om his mother when barely a year old, had no ntact whatsoever wh his father, and had a very troubled Jam’s fay historyJam was born Edburgh, Stland, on June 19, 1566.

The “irrencilable sir” Jam’s se, however, have much more to do wh his sire for tense and lovg relatnships wh other men spe the polil and faial sts the foregog acunt of Jam’s fay history, we have not discsed a major theme of Bergeron’s (1991) Royal Fay, Royal Lovers, the fact that his homoerotic relatnships wh men played a very signifint role the mistst and eventual emotnal distance between Jam and Anne. The them have direct bearg on the larger issue wh which we are ncerned this article, namely, the relevance of Jam’s homosexual tennci to his missng of a new translatn of the Bible to Bergeron shows Royal Fay, Royal Lovers (1991) and further explor Kg Jam and Letters of Homoerotic Dire (1999), the three major male relatnships Jam’s life were wh Esme Stuart, De of Lennox; Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset; and Gee Villiers, De of Buckgham.

We have chosen, therefore, to foc our attentn on Jam’s relatnship wh Robert Carr for several reasons: this was his first signifint homosexual relatnship after he assumed the throne of England; had the greatt negative impact on his relatns wh Anne and his children; and occurred durg the perd that the Bible that he had missned was translated and Royal Fay, Royal Lovers, Bergeron (1991) discs the impact of Jam’s male relatnships on his relatnship wh Queen Anne.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

Yet, as anyone who reads even cursorily the enormo lerature on human sexualy that has been produced over the past few s knows, the very word “homosexual” is a very ntted, batable term, pecially when applied to earlier historil perds. It is often poted out that bee the word homosexual did not appear until the last s of the neteenth century, is anachronistic to e , for example, reference to Kg Jam, who lived at the end of the sixteenth and begng of the seventeenth centuri.

BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE

” In eher se, this means that Jam and his ntemporari had no ncept or unrstandg of “homosexualy” per Young’s view, is te that Jam and his ntemporari did not have a ncept of “a homosexual” as distct om “a heterosexual. On the other hand, although is probably rrect to say that homosexualy is the “ventn” of the morn world, he believ that the more morn ways of thkg about homosexualy were already unrway Jam’s time.

Young acknowledg that we nnot know for certa how much this associatn of effemacy and pacifism was mere rhetoril pose and how much was genue alarm, but what we n know “is that the thors already fed effemacy as we do and lked to male homosexualy.

There is no evince of homosexual relatns occurrg England on the sle that Rocke found Florence, but when they did occur, they followed the same age-differentiated do this age-differentiated pattern relate to Kg Jam? If Jam began to weary of Somerset, took several hundred rebuffs before he was able to accept the fact that Somerset had wearied of foregog discsn of the charge that Jam was effemate may not seem to have any relevance to the issue wh which we are ncerned here, namely, the relatnship between his “homosexual tennci” and his missng of the English translatn of the Bible. To be sure, McGrath suggts that the missng me at a time when he was beg cricized for his “creasgly obv homosexual tennci, ” and go on to note that the “missng of the new translatn of the Bible was one of the first posive acts of the new kg of England” (pp.