Gay History: All The Kgs And Queens Who Were Allegedly LGBTQ+ | timalrman

Contents:

• 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
• GAY HISTORY: ALL THE KGS AND QUEENS WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY LGBTQ+
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY

Even though some societi embraced homosexualy, most refed to accept a gay monarch. But before we talk about LGBTQ+ kgs and queens, let's start wh the history of sexual terms heterosexual and homosexual didn't exist until the 1860s.

GAY HISTORY: ALL THE KGS AND QUEENS WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY LGBTQ+

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Centuri before homosexualy was ma legal between nsentg adults 1967, the ‘love that dare not speak s name’ was viewed as a s England, particularly by the church, and technilly punishable by ath.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

It is not surprisg that many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret. Known as ‘Ruf’ due to his ddy plexn and red hair, the third son of William the Conqueror beme Kg of England 1087 and is assumed to have been gay or bisexual. The fourth son of Henry II, he is also believed to have been homosexual spe marryg Berengaria of Navarre.

However, gay, bisexual, lbian, and even transgenr lears have guid natns sce time immemorial.

That he sat on the throne named Neferkare leads many scholars to believe the tale Kg Neferkare and General Sase, which scrib a gay relatnship between a pharaoh and his general, was fact about Pepi, though Egyptologists ntue to bate if the story was tth or fictn. HipparchThe dictator of the cy of Athens 514, Hipparch had ma a sexual advance toward the openly gay Harmodi and was rejected multiple tim, acrdg to historian Thucydis. But history also remembers Ai of Han for his effive homosexualy.