Today In Gay History: Uganda's Bisexual Kg Mwanga II Tak The Throne

Contents:

• THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG
• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
• 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
• KG GAY
• GAY KG
• KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
• VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
• WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE

THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG

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

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. 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.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

“I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported.

An art historian disvered a 400-year-old portra of Gee Villiers, the former De of Buckgham who is thought to have been the gay lover of Kg Jam VI and I, the Brish ler om 1567 to 1625 who missned a btsellg book known as The Kg Jam Bible.

5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY

Hovn’s bed ment may be more of a polil metaphor than a leral one — polics do make strange bedfellows, after all — but even still, Richard I has long been lnized as a gay in.

The plays of both possibly-gay English playwright Christopher Marlowe and totally-gay English playwright Derek Jarman both picted Edward II as gay. Totally gay.

In our md, Edward II is always the gay kg, so we feel some sort of affectn for him jt on that basis.

KG GAY

Was Edward II gay?

Marlowe is wily accepted to have been gay. This wasn’t the first time that he’d addrsed gay relatnships his work, but Edward II was the most explicly and sympathetilly gay character that Marlowe had tackled. Uganda today is arguably one of the most dangero plac the world to be gay.

GAY KG

The untry is famo for s treatment of the LGBT muny as homosexualy is seen as a 'wtern practice' and is highly unaccepted. Related | Uganda Official Orrs Pri March Organizers to Cancel ParaWhat many don't know is that the overtly homophobic natn once held a bisexual the age of 16 on October 18, 1884, Mwanga II Basammula Ekkere beme kg the kg of Uganda.

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.

KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE

To others, though, Richard I is a gay in. ”The speculatn that Edward II’s relatnships wh the men went beyond iendship was fueled by Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play “Edward II”, which is often noted for s homoerotic portrayal of Edward II and VI and I, who reigned over Stland and later England and Ireland until his ath 1625, attracted siar scty for his male favor, a term ed for panns and advisers who had special preference wh monarchs. Bergeron theoriz his book “Kg Jam and Letters of Homoerotic Dire”: “The scriptn that mov across the letters spell sire.

VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

England’s ‘gay’ kgs and queens fied society – durg perhaps the most homophobic era of human history – to have same-sex lovers. Of 41 monarchs sce William The Conqueror, we’ve intified seven who were likely lbian, gay or bisexual. Further evince for his homosexualy om his squabble wh the lear of the English church – Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The bt evince for his homosexualy me om his youth, when he was still De of Aquae and open revolt agast his father, Henry II. Fally, is likely he admted his gay affairs as part of church ceremoni where he publicly ‘nfsed’ his ‘ss’. Edward II is the most famoly ‘gay’ Brish monarch.

A mor circulated that his executner serted a red hot poker to his an, aga to punish his homosexualy. Historians now dispute that but has bee the most famo legend about a gay kg. They also engaged ‘excs that are not to be named’ – possibly gay sex.

WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE

But after she died, mors of his homosexualy started.