PROFILE WILLIAM OF ORANGE Gay rights activists Northern Ireland ma the shockg (to some) claim that Kg Billy was gay, …
Contents:
- GAY ACTIVIST'S 'KG BILLY WAS A HOMOSEXUAL' CLAIM SPARKS FURORE
- WAS KG WILLIAM III BISEXUAL? LEADG BRISH GAY RIGHTS MPAIGNER PETER TATCHELL CERTALY THKS SO.
- WAS KG BILLY OF THE BOYNE FAMY GAY?
- 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
- KING BILLY 'WAS GAY' UNNIST FURY AS ACTIVIST CLAIMS WILLIAM OF ORANGE HAD MALE LOVERS.
- MAY 1, 1981: THE DAY BILLIE JEAN KG PUBLICLY ME OUT AS GAY
GAY ACTIVIST'S 'KG BILLY WAS A HOMOSEXUAL' CLAIM SPARKS FURORE
* was king billy gay *
Published 18th-19th Century Social Perspectiv, 18th–19th - Century History, Early Morn History (1500–1700), Early Morn History Social Perspectiv, General, Issue 6 (Nov/Dec 2008), Letters, Volume 16In his article ‘Billy’s Boys’ the last issue, is a py thatBrian Lacy do not answer the qutn posed the troductn, thatis, whether William III was fact homosexual.
WAS KG WILLIAM III BISEXUAL? LEADG BRISH GAY RIGHTS MPAIGNER PETER TATCHELL CERTALY THKS SO.
A leadg gay rights activist has raised the temperature the row over homosexualy by claimg there was evince Kg Billy had male lovers. * was king billy gay *
Further, is known that William’s prumedlong-time lover, Bentck, de of Portland, abhorred homosexualy andcried his rrponnce what he lled ‘nt habs’ (seeWilliam and Mary by Henri and Barbara van r Dee (1973), pp 421–2). Also, they availedof the gossip that arose followg the stagg of Vanburgh’s edy TheRelapse, or Virtue Danger, Dry Lane 1696, wh s numerohomosexual allns, to smear William.
PROFILE WILLIAM OF ORANGE Gay rights activists Northern Ireland ma the shockg (to some) claim that Kg Billy was gay, and certaly the young monarch had his male favour at urt. But has long been moured that Bentck was, fact, a spurned lover; that William had homosexual clatns, had found a new sexual favoure and that Keppel had supplanted Bentck's place Kg Billy's forward 300 years - to last Monday, Belfast, when gay rights activist Peter Tatchell told the gatherg at Amnty Internatnal's Pri Lecture that, "William of Orange had male lovers, most notably William Bentck, whom William ma Earl of Portland, and Arnold Van Keppel, who was a mere page when William met him and ma him Earl of Albemarle.
WAS KG BILLY OF THE BOYNE FAMY GAY?
Ulster Unnists memorate the battle of the Boyne but was their beloved Dutch Kg Billy gay? * was king billy gay *
"Censorg William III's homosexualy is pla hypocrisy, " Tatchell had add. That if Kg Billy was ed gay or bisexual, then the homophobia displayed by certa Unnist polins would look pretty hollow.
5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
Many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret. * was king billy gay *
After all, the practice of "outg" historil figur has been a mor, but by, ont the battle for gay rights.
KING BILLY 'WAS GAY' UNNIST FURY AS ACTIVIST CLAIMS WILLIAM OF ORANGE HAD MALE LOVERS.
Free Onle Library: KING BILLY 'WAS GAY' Unnist fury as activist claims William of Orange had male lovers.(News) by "The Mirror (London, England)"; General tert Child sexual abe * was king billy gay *
In 1697, Bentck wrote a letter to William, clarg his shock at the mours of "Thgs I am ashamed to hear, and which I thought you to be as far removed of as any man of the world, I would have thought any man of society would have distanced himself om" was William of Orange actually homosexual?
MAY 1, 1981: THE DAY BILLIE JEAN KG PUBLICLY ME OUT AS GAY
While some pot to ments ma ma even by WIlliam's admirers that uld suggt that his "one vice" was homosexualy, David Onnekk, his bgraphy of Bentck, argu that the evince that se is only circumstantial, and that while William's letters "radiate his ep iendship and rpect for his servant, they are rather void of timate feelgs".
Bis, Onnekk argu, one has to exame the role of the Jab, who were wagg a propaganda war at the the Who's Who Gay and Lbian History ref to st judgement on William. He may have been gay, says. He may have had early gay experienc.