As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
Contents:
- GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
- GAY WORLD (HAPPY WORLD)
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
Gay World was one of three amement parks built Sgapore before World War II and around which Sgapore’s nightlife revolved om the 1920s to the ’60s. The other two were New World and Great World. Gay World was a popular entertament jot before the advent of televisn and shoppg malls. It featured a variety of entertament cludg baret, operas, movi, gamg, sport match, stunts and shoppg. The se of many fir over the years, Gay World was molished 2001 to make way for revelopment. * gay world history *
Ancient Tim: Cultur such as the Indian, Che, Egyptian, Greek and Roman acmodate homosexualy and crossdrsg among a mory of s cizens sce the earlit rerd tim. One of the earlit Egyptian pharaohs associated wh homosexualy is Kg Neferkare, who is scribed havg an affair wh his top ary manr, Sase, durg the Sixth Dynasty.
The Jewish prophet Mos nmns crossdrsg and homosexualy the Torah (Book of Levic), punishg the latter by ath for both men and women. Eighth-century Greek epics like the Iliad and Odyssey portray homosexual unns between gods and young men such as Zs and Ganyme, Poseidon and Pelops, Apollo and Hyacth, etc. The Sacred Band of Theb, a homosexual army prised of more than three hundred soldiers, is feated by Phillip II of Macedon and his son, Alexanr the Great.
India’s Manmri (Manu Samha) lists homosexual behavr as a mor offense for ordary, twice-born mal and for unrage, unmarried girls but do not nmn otherwise. India’s Narada-smri clus homosexuals s list of men who are impotent wh women and clar them curable and unf for marriage to the oppose sex. Roman historian Ddos Sicul documents one of the earlit known referenc to homosexualy among the Celtic trib of Brannia and northern Gl.
GAY WORLD (HAPPY WORLD)
* gay world history *
The Dark Ag: Wh the advent of Christiany, homosexualy and crossdrsg are crimalized the Roman Empire but rema wily accepted throughout the rt of the world.
The Middle Ag: Wh the growth of Christiany and the advent of Islam, the crimalizatn of homosexualy and crossdrsg spreads across Eurasia and to Ai. The Middle Eastern ctom of stratg homosexual slav and hoe servants be monplace the East Roman Empire (Byzantium) and is troduced to northern Cha and India. The Early Morn Age: Christian Europe wag s greatt asslt upon homosexualy to date while the practice remas silently tolerated the Mlim world.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Expedns to sub-Saharan Ai, the New World and the South Seas reveal an astonishg acceptance of homosexualy and crossdrsg among the digeno people there.
Kg Henry VIII of England tablish the Buggery Act, which replac the penalty for homosexualy om stratn or burng at the stake to public hangg. In one of the earlit acunts of homosexualy Ai, a seri of urt rerds om Portugal’s Brazil lony scrib sodomic practic among the nativ of Angola and Congo. Several hundred homosexuals are publicly garroted San Lazaro, Mexi, durg a well-publicized effort by Spa to purge that untry of sodomy.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
Early French explorers Quebec, Louisiana and the Great Lak observe crossdrsg homosexual nativ and the term “berdache” to scribe them. Seventy-five homosexuals are sentenced to ath and garroted the Cy Hall cellars of Holland durg a harsh mpaign to extermate that untry of sodomy “om top to bottom.
The Islamic world matas a mostly silent tolerance of homosexualy and the practice of male stratn dissipat unison wh the global slave market. London’s most popular playwright, Osr Wil, is nvicted of “gross cency” (homosexual acts not amountg to buggery) and sentenced to two years of hard labor a highly-publicized trial. The Twentieth Century: The English-speakg world begs repealg s sodomy laws en masse and the morn gay rights movement is born the Uned Stat.