‘The kg and his hband’: The gay history of Brish royals - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS
• BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE
• GERMANY AND RABOW GAY PRI FLAG - Сток картинки
• FALSE GERMAN PRINCE LIVED A GAY LIFE FOR MANY WEEKS; HARRY DOMELA, SOLDIER AND VAGABOND, RECEIVED HONORS PAID ONLY TO ROYALTY

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

Berl (CNN) — Pourg ra uld do nothg to dampen the spirs of sr of people who gathered outsi the Bunstag Berl on Friday morng, some clutchg rabow umbrellas, to awa parliament’s vote on a bill legalizg gay marriage Germany. Once Germany’s Senate approv the bill next week, as expected, homosexual upl Germany will have the same rights as heterosexual upl to marry and jotly adopt children — barrg any legal challenge.

GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS

“It is important to show we are here, we support gay marriage, marriage equaly, marriage for everyone — so that the people there who are givg their vote know we are here and we are proud to be part of the muny, ” he said.

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.

BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE

)“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.

GERMANY AND RABOW GAY PRI FLAG - Сток картинки

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. The Queen’s beme the first member of the Brish royal fay to e out as gay after revealg he is datg Jam Coyle.

FALSE GERMAN PRINCE LIVED A GAY LIFE FOR MANY WEEKS; HARRY DOMELA, SOLDIER AND VAGABOND, RECEIVED HONORS PAID ONLY TO ROYALTY

Openly homosexual, Kg Louis XIV’s younger brother also enjoyed drsg women’s cloth. It is known om his diary, private letters, and other survivg personal documents, that he had strong homosexual sir.

This is the only se Roman history where a named dividual male is stated as homosexual. Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil is an openly gay Indian prce who ns The Lakshya Tst. However, there is very ltle proof to substantiate the claims, wh Kg Henry crimalisg gay sex the Buggery Act of 1533.

Manvendra Sgh Gohil beme the first openly gay prce the world when he me out 2006.

Queen Elizabeth's Lord Ivar Mountbatten me out as gay  September 2016.

Philippe I, the De of Orléans, was known and often cricized for drsg women's clothg and his homosexualy was monly acknowledged. " While the terms gay, queer, or even bisexual were rarely directly ed to scribe the royal, his relatnships wh men were well-documented.

Philippe later married Prcs Palate Elizabeth Charlotte, who slept separate bedchambers and was generally fivg of what she lled "the Italian vice, " a lloquial term for homosexualy that era. Shortly after he took the throne followg the abditn of his father Kg Victor Emmanuel III, Umberto was outed the prs as homosexual.