“Mary, Queen of Sts,” the feature film but of stage director Josie Rourke, is filled wh all of the backstabbg, palace trigue and secrecy you’d expect om the Elizabethan era. One of the film’s secrets actually leads to a treasono b of palace trigue and leral backstabbg. In “Mary, Queen of Sts,” which stars Saoirse Ronan the tular role and Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I, Mary’s Italian-born urtier and nfidant David Rizz (Ismael Cz Cordova) is heavily implied to be gay.
Contents:
- DID MARY, QUEEN OF STS' HBAND HAVE A GAY AFFAIR?
- ‘MARY QUEEN OF STS’ FACT CHECK: WAS THERE REALLY A GAY AFFAIR MARY’S COURT?
- 'MARY QUEEN OF STS' FILM: HOW MUCH TTH IS THERE IN THE GAY AFFAIR STORYLE?
DID MARY, QUEEN OF STS' HBAND HAVE A GAY AFFAIR?
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Historian and thor John Guy weighs on whether Mary's hband Henry had an affair wh her gay urtan, as seen Mary Queen of Sts.
‘MARY QUEEN OF STS’ FACT CHECK: WAS THERE REALLY A GAY AFFAIR MARY’S COURT?
A queer historian asss the historil accuracy of the gay stuff the Mary Queen of Sts movie. * darnley was he gay *
One of the most shockg scen the upg Mary Queen of Sts movie when Mary Stuart, played by Saoirse Ronan, walks on her hband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley bed wh her gay male urtan, David Rizz, on her weddg night 1565. He Wasn’t Gay—Or Happy. Darnley was gay?
She disvers too late he is a dope, a dnk and a thoroughly bad du, but the movie suggts he's more a figure of ridicule than the monster he really movie also poss he was a homosexual, that Mary ught him wh her personal mician/secretary, David Rizz, and that she had to force Darnley to impregnate her.
"We know of urse that same-sex attractn and romance go back to time immemorial, but the term "homosexual" is a morn phenomenon. Queer historians by and large see the Victorian trial of Osr Wil for "gross cency, " and the way played out the media and public sphere, as the transformative moment whereby a person who engaged homosexual acts beme a homosexual person -- and that wasn't until three hundred years later after Mary.
'MARY QUEEN OF STS' FILM: HOW MUCH TTH IS THERE IN THE GAY AFFAIR STORYLE?
* darnley was he gay *
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