Contents:
- JOHN CAMPBELL, 9TH DE OF ARGYLL … CANADA’S GAY ERNOR GENERAL?
- A VERY IRISH SNDAL: THE GAY RUMORS BEHD THE UNSOLVED IRISH CROWN JEWELS HEIST OF 1907
JOHN CAMPBELL, 9TH DE OF ARGYLL … CANADA’S GAY ERNOR GENERAL?
Further, he formed close iendships wh men who were moured to be homosexually cled, which raised qutns about the marriage and fuelled mours around London that he was bisexual, [1] if not largely homosexual. ↑ A L Rowse, Homosexuals History Maclan, 1977, Page 157.
Further, Campbell formed close iendships wh men who were moured to be homosexually cled, which raised qutns about Campbell’s marriage and fuelled mours around London that Campbell was bisexual, if not largely homosexual predisposn.
A VERY IRISH SNDAL: THE GAY RUMORS BEHD THE UNSOLVED IRISH CROWN JEWELS HEIST OF 1907
And at the heart of the sndal were salac allegatns—first whispered, then shouted—about a secret, gay party scene wh the stle walls. At a time when sex acts between men were illegal Bra, Shackleton’s homosexualy was an open secret; police may have feared he’d reveal sndalo rmatn about proment aristocrats his orb—like his iend the De of Argyll, who was also mored to be gay, or the de’s clost iend, the sculptorLord Ronald Gower. “His life London was totally documented by Stland Yard, ” Brian Lacey, thor of Terrible Queer Creatur: Homosexualy Irish History, tells Mental Floss.
In his book, Dungan wr that police disvered Virs was the hab of hostg “soiré” at the stle, wh “some of Dubl’s leadg homosexuals” among his guts. A police handout about the Irish Crown Jewels theft / Dubl Metropolan Police, Wikimedia Commons // Public DomaOfficials may have hoped that heapg blame on Virs would put the bacle at Dubl Castle to rt, and they were succsful keepg any whiff of a gay sndal out of the Irish prs. / Gee Washgton Ban, Wikimedia Commons // Public DomaIn fact, the theft of the Crown Jewels marked the third gay ntroversy two s that embroiled high-rankg members of the Brish tablishment.
In the early 1880s, allegatns ma by an Irish natnalist journal led to the exposure of a “work of gay men who were active the cy’s gay unrground, ” wr historian Brian Crowley—among them the director of tectiv wh the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Secretary of the General Post Office of Ireland. That acplice may have been Capta Richard G, a ary man wh a notor reputatn; he was known to be gay and was reportedly prone to vlence, eventually gog to prison for killg a police officer. And was her hband, the Marqus of Lorne (later 9th De of Argyll), whom she married at the sistence of her mother 1871, a homosexual whose night prowls she tried to prevent by brickg up the wdows of her apartment?