While openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr world lears are still a rary, there are a few who are breakg barriers.
Contents:
- 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
- GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
For much of history, LGBTQ+ royalty need to hi their inti. Even though some societi embraced homosexualy, most refed to accept a gay ... * gay rulers *
To date, there have been five openly LGBTQ+ people who have served as a natnal head of ernment, Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Serbia -- but gay, bisexual, lbian, and even transgenr lears have guid natns sce time immemorial. That he sat on the throne named Neferkare leads many scholars to believe the tale Kg Neferkare and General Sase, which scrib a gay relatnship between a pharaoh and his general, was fact about Pepi, though Egyptologists ntue to bate if the story was tth or fictn.
The dictator of the cy of Athens 514, Hipparch had ma a sexual advance toward the openly gay Harmodi and was rejected multiple tim, acrdg to historian Thucydis. The ler of England om 1087 to 1100, Kg William II was gay, acrdg to the wrer Eadmer, though effemate mannerisms and fashn choic seemed his primary evince.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
* gay rulers *
Richard the Lnheart has been picted as gay books and films, most famoly by Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter.
Much of the talk of his purported homosexualy stems om the time he spent wh Kg Phillip II of France 1187.
He would produce no heirs of his own and was plagued by mors of homosexualy his lifetime.
GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
Many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret. * gay rulers *
The grand de of Tny om 1621 until 1670, Ferdando married and produced children, but also quarreled wh his mother, Maria Madla of Atria, about whether homosexualy should be outlawed. Historians say the mother once gave her son a list of reported gay people and said that they should be burned.