Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer histori our palac
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GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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… * henry viii gay *
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.
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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. 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”.