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GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
Morn Cha has a plited relatnship wh homosexualy: It was crimalized 1997, but queer dividuals ntue to face social stigma and issu like nversn therapy and censorship of LGBTQ topics on Weibo. Some historians, however, argue that the suatn was much different ancient history: In Che history, wh Tamkang Universy rearchg Liu Demg even suggtg a 2009 paper that homo-erotic relatnships were trendy among noble and tellectual men durg the Qg dynasty. The last emperor of the Wtern Han dynasty, who led om the 7 BCE to 1 BCE, was the spiratn of the idm “Sleeve-cuttg affectn, ” which refers to homosexualy.
Th, the phrase “Leftover peach affectn” (余桃之癖) also beme a chengyu to scribe a homosexual relatnship (see a pattern?
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.
HOW ROMAN EMPEROR HADRIAN’S GAY LOVER BEME A GOD
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. ”“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.