First Openly Gay Prce Speaks Out on Missn to End Conversn Therapy

Contents:

• FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SPEAKS OUT ON MISSN TO END CONVERSN THERAPY: 'I HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTG'
• ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY
• GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS
• PRCE CHARL A ‘CLOSETED GAY’ MAN? ROYAL FANS FUR WH ‘ABSURD’ QUTN

FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SPEAKS OUT ON MISSN TO END CONVERSN THERAPY: 'I HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTG'

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. 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.

ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY

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.

”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. “I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported. Prce Andrew is a gay character om The Bravt Knight.

Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil me out 2006 when homosexualy India was still illegal. Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil of India is speakg out agast gay nversn therapy, openg up about his own subjectn to electroshock treatments and other practic an effort to fd a "cure" for his sexualy.

GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS

The 56-year-old prce, who me out 2006 and is believed to be the world's first openly gay royal, is fightg for a ban on the practice of nversn therapy India, where homosexualy was illegal until 2018. When Prce Manvendra told his parents that he was gay 2002, "They thought was impossible that I uld be gay bee my cultural upbrgg had been so rich.

PRCE CHARL A ‘CLOSETED GAY’ MAN? ROYAL FANS FUR WH ‘ABSURD’ QUTN

Manvendra, who married his hband 2013 after a failed arranged marriage wh a woman, relled how his untry reacted when he me out as gay, cludg his parents publicly disowng him.

He hired a totally new hoehold staff, ” the royal fan said that the members of the royal fay learned that Prce Edward was gay very early on so they troduced him to a lot of pretty girls. Meanwhile, other royal fans don’t thk that Prce Edward is gay. Graham Short, a mician, wrer, and entertaer, said that he n’t possibly be gay bee he is happily married to Sophie.

[Nghty Gossip] Insirs tell Straight Shuter that while the whole world has been focg on Meghan and Prce Harry’s weddg, another Royal has been keepg a big secret – he is gay. “Wh certa circl London is wily known that this member of the fay is gay. Are there any openly gay royals other than Dame Edna?