NAMES IN THE NEWS : Not Gay, Says Prce Edward - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• THE EXILED PRCE, HIS 'SECRET CHILDREN' AND MOURS OF GAY LOVERS
• NAMES IN THE NEWS : NOT GAY, SAYS PRCE EDWARD
• ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY
• GAY BAR CHARLOTTETOWN WOULD BE 'GAME CHANGER,' SAYS TOURISM ASSOCIATN
• ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY
• GAY LEA FOODS BUYS BLACK RIVER CHEE

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

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 term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri. 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.

THE EXILED PRCE, HIS 'SECRET CHILDREN' AND MOURS OF GAY LOVERS

”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa. Young as “​​the most proment homosexual figure the early morn perd.

)“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. 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. And rather than let that secret out, Frerick pretend to be gay, “so that he would ntue to appear virile and pable of sexual terurse, albe wh men.

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. “I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported.

NAMES IN THE NEWS : NOT GAY, SAYS PRCE EDWARD

”The speculatn that Edward II’s relatnships wh the men went beyond iendship was fueled by Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play “Edward II”, which is often noted for s homoerotic portrayal of Edward II and VI and I, who reigned over Stland and later England and Ireland until his ath 1625, attracted siar scty for his male favor, a term ed for panns and advisers who had special preference wh monarchs. Bergeron theoriz his book “Kg Jam and Letters of Homoerotic Dire”: “The scriptn that mov across the letters spell sire. He hired a totally new hoehold staff, ” the royal fan said that the members of the royal fay learned that Prce Edward was gay very early on so they troduced him to a lot of pretty girls.

ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY

Meanwhile, other royal fans don’t thk that Prce Edward is gay. Graham Short, a mician, wrer, and entertaer, said that he n’t possibly be gay bee he is happily married to Sophie. Acrdg to Smh and Gibbs, at a premier party after the Broadway but of Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love, Prce Edward blew up when a reporter asked if he was gay.

I am not gay, but what n I do about ? Stay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletterStay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletter The first same-sex royal weddg has taken place - a historic ocsn for the Ivar Mountbatten, a of Queen Elizabeth II, and his partner Jam Coyle married over the weekend, after announcg June that they would be tyg the pair, who have been a public relatnship sce Lord Mountbatten announced he was gay 2016, reportedly exchanged vows Bridwell Park chapel Devon ont of 60 fay and iends, acrdg to the Daily Mountbatten celebrated the ocsn by sharg photos of the weddg, which he upload to Instagram wh the ptn: “Well we did fally! Prce Edward (pictured) left the Royal Mar after jt four months When to his sons, would be easy to thk that the macho De of Edburgh has most mon wh Prce all, was Andrew, his third-born son, who risked his life the Falklands war as a Royal Navy helipter pilot — jt as Philip had risked his own as a naval officer durg World War the boy clost to the De's heart is his youngt; the one who chose to work the arty world of televisn and — much to the dismay of the Queen — dropped out of the Royal top of that, he had to face unfound mours that he was gay.

'I thk he'd had a rough time and had been bullied and teased about 'gayns' until he uldn't take any more.

GAY BAR CHARLOTTETOWN WOULD BE 'GAME CHANGER,' SAYS TOURISM ASSOCIATN

"Prce EdwardPoor Edward has had to face equent claims that he is gay, bee he has had so few girliends. She once said: "He's not gay but I'm not tellg you how I know.

"Many of the Wdsors' iends were gay.

However, of the De is said never to have appeared particularly fortable when the pany of gay once told the Amerin novelist and screenwrer Tman Capote, who was openly gay: "The De, however well he pretends not to hate me, he do, though.

ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY

" Trendg In a 2004 edn of his bgraphy of Wallis, thor Charl Higham revealed that the De's former equerry Sir Dudley Forwood had told him that Edward "Fy" Metlfe, an Indian army officer and close iend of Edward, "was an active homosexual and that he had a physil affair wh the Prce of Wal". "The De was also the honorary print of the Atrian Sports and Shootg Club, which German police fil suggt was a ver for homosexual activi, " not of the De's lovers was supposedly Walter Chrysler Jr, son of the founr of the Chrysler Corporatn. A tabloid televisn show royally exposed yet another secret of Bra’s first fay Monday night, airg reports that Prce Edward is gay.

GAY LEA FOODS BUYS BLACK RIVER CHEE

On A Current Affair, two of Bra’s top gossips – Taki Theodora poulos of The Spectator and Clive Goodman of the News of The World – say that Edward, the youngt son of Queen Elizabeth, is gay but do not offer five proof. The prce, a 28-year-old bachelor, has repeatedly nied he is homosexual.