15 Gay Romanc of the Renaissance Era

Contents:

• BEYONCé’S RENAISSANCE IS A BIG, GAY MS
• BEYONCé DIT RENAISSANCE TO HER GAY UNCLE AND 'FALLEN ANGELS' OF CLUB CULTURE
• THE TWO GAY RENAISSANCE MEN REVOLUTNIZED HOW LGBT PEOPLE COMMUNITE
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

BEYONCé’S RENAISSANCE IS A BIG, GAY MS

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BEYONCé DIT RENAISSANCE TO HER GAY UNCLE AND 'FALLEN ANGELS' OF CLUB CULTURE

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In the fal four s of the fifteenth century, 17, 000 Florente men had been acced of sodomy by the Office of the Night (an stutn found to vtigate homosexual relatns).

However, sheer statistics unrme the plex dynamics of homosexual relatns fifteenth-century Florence. Unrstandgs of Ancient Greek thought provid a amework for Florente men to engage wh homosexual relatns, creatg a disurse that uld both jtify and nmn their actns.

THE TWO GAY RENAISSANCE MEN REVOLUTNIZED HOW LGBT PEOPLE COMMUNITE

In the ntext of Florente male homosexual culture, the Neoplatonic ncept of love provid a route to expla and jtify sodomy. Male homosexualy Florence was wispread, and relatively accepted as long as followed existg relatns of power, spe Church doctre nouncg the practice.

This meant the most mon form of male homosexual relatns was perasty, an “active” olr male and a “passive” adolcent. Whilst the Neoplatonic ia of love uld jtify male homosexualy, uld nmn too.

This shift monstrat Neoplatonic ias on love uld be ed to nmn, as well as expla, the culture surroundg male homosexual culture. The ambiguy of the relatnship between Neoplatonic love and male homosexual culture is fully revealed through the work of Michelangelo. Michelangelo was likely a homosexual and showed ep affectn towards Tommaso ’ Cavalieri, a young Italian nobleman.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Michelangelo’s plex relatnship wh Cavalieri, and homosexualy more broadly, is suggted his Ganyme and Tyos, a pair of imag which make explic e of Neoplatonist thought. In the piec, Michelangelo ed Neoplatonic love to both jtify and nmn male homosexual behavur. Neoplatonic thought therefore served as a paradigm through which men uld unrstand their homosexual sir.