I once had a heated discsn wh my history tutor Carol (who happens to be an alumni of Oxford Universy) about Henry VIII, which I mataed that Henry VIII was probably a closeted gay man. Of urse, she took my theory wh a pch of salt, but also add, "I've thought many thgs about…
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I once had a heated discsn wh my history tutor Carol (who happens to be an alumni of Oxford Universy) about Henry VIII, which I mataed that Henry VIII was probably a closeted gay man. Ma homosexualy a crime punishable by ath.
Not only did he legalize the pal punishment of boilg, as well as the executn of the sane; he also ma homosexualy a crime punishable by ath, an overt exprsn of homophobia, or hatred towards homosexuals. Contemporary rearch has shown that extreme s of homophobia is many s, a sign of nial by closeted gay men who are ashamed of their sexualy, and attempt to disassociate themselv om homosexualy by exprsg their outright disgt and repulsn towards homosexualy.
Many ntemporary amic sourc also mata that many closeted gay men attempt to disguise their sexualy by takg up extreme, aggrsive sports, e. Henry’s secury wh his masculy, as n be seen his persecutn of homosexuals, as well as his aggrsive promotn of hegemonic, pencil-straight masculy orr to disenanchise himself om anythg non-mastream.
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Many gay men marry women orr to f to hetero-normative society, but 6 wiv mak seem as if he was tryg to prove jt how “straight” he was. (Can you image a gay man tryg to make love to a woman?
For the sake of argument, let assume that he tly was a gay man. Remember that back then (and many parts of the world today), homosexualy was nsired a “sickns”, and a “s agast nature”, and homosexuals “evil”. If he tly was gay, is therefore unrstandable why he would want to take his sexualy wh him to the grave.
165–208Google Scholar; Bulloch, Vern L., Homosexualy: a history (New York, 1979), p. Gayangos, Pasual, Bergenroth, G. Hurley, Robert (New York, 1980), 1, 30–43Google Scholar; Bray, Alan, Homosexualy Renaissance England (London, 1982), pp.