'The kg and his hband': The ltle-known gay history of Brish royals | Natnal Post

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• THE GAY AND BISEXUAL ROYALS THAT YOU AREN’T TGHT ABOUT SCHOOL
• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• 'THE KG AND HIS HBAND': THE LTLE-KNOWN GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• GUS WHO'S THE FIRST EUROPEAN ROYAL TO POSE FOR A GAY MAGAZE?{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY DAN AVERYJANUARY 23, 2015/2:07 PMBY DAN AVERYJANUARY 23, 2015 / 2:07 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"GUS WHO'S THE FIRST EUROPEAN ROYAL TO POSE FOR A GAY MAGAZE?","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-01-23T19:07:07.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-01-23T19:07:07.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A EUROPEAN MONARCH HAS POSED FOR THE VER OF A GAY MAGAZE FOR THE FIRST TIME HISTORY. ALAS, 'S NOT PRCE HARRY (HE'S PRETTY FAR DOWN THE WDSOR FOOD CHA)—'S KG FELIPE VI OF SPA, WHO TOOK THE THRONE JUNE 2014 AFTER HIS FATHER, JUAN CARLOS I, STEPPED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KG FELIPE BEAMS OM THE VER OF THE JANUARY ISSUE OF RAGAP, A GAY MAGAZE SPA, BUT 'S NOT A G OUT STORY: THE HANDSOME ROYAL IS HAPPILY HETEROSEXUAL. HE'S JT AN ACTIVE SUPPORTER OF LGBT EQUALY AND THE FIGHT AGAST HIV/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: MISS SPA COM OUT AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FELIPE WAS BORN 1968, AT THE TAIL END OF FRAN'S REGIME, AN ERA MARKED BY REPRSN AND HOMOPHOBIA. NOW, HOWEVER, SPA HAS ONE OF EUROPE'S MOST VIBRANT GAY MUNI AND LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BACK 2005. PATRICIA YURENA, WHO REPRENTED SPA AT THE MISS UNIVERSE NTT 2013, ME OUT AS A LBIAN LAST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JT DAYS AFTER HIS RONATN, FACT, FELIPE AND WIFE QUEEN LETIZIA MET WH REPRENTATIV OM LGBT GROUPS AS ONE OF THEIR FIRST PUBLIC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: SEXY ITALIAN TOURISTS "TERRORIZG" {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“THE KG AND QUEEN RECEIVED ON THEIR FIRST WEEK ON THE JOB," SAID NATNAL FERATN OF LGBTS PRINT BOTI GARCíA AT THE TIME, "WHILE THE PUTY PRIME MISTER DID NOT EVEN RETURN OUR LLS ON THE TWO OCSNS WE REQUTED A MEETG WH HER,”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FELIPE LLED PARTICIPANTS "THE IMAGE OF SOLIDARY SPA.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}READ THE FULL RAGAP ARTICLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS

THE GAY AND BISEXUAL ROYALS THAT YOU AREN’T TGHT ABOUT SCHOOL

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 KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

(The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri. 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.

'THE KG AND HIS HBAND': THE LTLE-KNOWN GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

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.

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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. ”The archde spent the rt of his life secln at Klsheim Palace near Salzburg, where he died at the age of 76 1919, three years after his brother’s ath and one year after the Atro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved after the end of World War II of Buganda (1868 - 1903)Discsn of Uganda’s treatment of homosexualy ually settl on Print Yoweri Meveni’s “Kill the Gays” bill, but this 19th century kabaka, or kg, of Buganda allegedly had sexual relatnships wh men along wh his 16 1886, Mwanga II orred the btal torture and aths of dozens of urtiers and pag, wh many burned alive.

GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS

“I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported. Herage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo2/7Philippe I, De of Orléans, 1640-1701Kg Louis XIV’s younger brother was openly gay and often wore women's clothg, wh the French urt beg fairly tolerant pared to other untri the 17th century.

General Photographic Agency / Getty Imag4/7Kg Umberto II of Italy, 1904-1983Italy's last Kg was the subject of homophobic reportg the Italian prs, beg outed 1943 as the Facist ernment sought to 'discred' him as ler.

Atrian Archiv / Imagno / Getty Imag5/7Archde Ludwig Viktor of Atria, 1842- 1919Another openly gay royal, Archde Ludwig was the younger brother of Atria's ler Emperor Franz Joseph I. He was bt known for his patronage of the arts and his philanthropy, chewg a ary Sanrs / ANL / Shutterstock6/7Lord Ivar Mountbatten, 1963 - prentPictured here on the right wh his hband Jam Coyle, Mountbatten beme the first member of the Brish royal fay to e out as openly gay when he announced he was datg Coyle.