General Principles.-The improvements made in the dynamo and electric motor between 18 and also in the details of the arc and incandescent electric lamp towards the close of that decade, induced engineers to turn their attention to the question of the private and public supply of electric current for the purpose of lighting and power. The actor also blocked a prominent trans journalist with 54K followers, accusing her of “trolling” for simply joining in the conversation. ELECTRICITY SUPPLY. It got so bad, Hennings told me he decided, of his own accord, to delete his tweet about the word “cis.” Both she and Hennings were on the receiving end of an enormous amount of online hate. I think he's a bit of a prick, but he's not outright disrespectful.” “I deleted it because I was just being harassed by a bunch of assholes calling me an idiot for implying the LGBT+ community came up with it, or not noticing that Shatner was using it in a condescending manner,” Hennings said. This isn’t Shatner’s first voyage in the Twitter wars. In November 2019, it was another word that stuck in his craw: “boomer,” as in the popular millennial phrase, “Ok, boomer.” “Sweetheart, that’s a compliment for me,” he tweeted. Of 41 monarchs since William The Conqueror, we’ve identified seven who were likely lesbian, gay or bisexual.īefore that, it was a feud over his autograph policy, Native Americans, a confederate monument, and the list goes on.Īmong Shatner’s last rants of Saturday night were to criticize defenders of the word “cis” as “militant types.England’s ‘gay’ kings and queens defied society – during perhaps the most homophobic era of human history – to have same-sex lovers. And they include some of the most famous rulers in British history. This is the incredible history of their secret love lives, stormy reigns, tragic sicknesses and grisly murders.
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King William Rufus (1087 – 1100) Handsome men were promoted in William II’s court, just as in the TV series Merlin. William II was ‘addicted to every kind of vice, particularly lust and especially sodomy,’ according to Frank Barlow, the leading medieval historian. William II came to the throne just 21 years after his father, William I, had conquered England. And the country was still sharply divided between the English people and their new Norman overlords. He made himself unpopular through his taxes and by imposing the death penalty on people who hunted deer in great swathes of forest he claimed for royal use.īut he was also a brave general. He extended his rule into Wales, brought the Scottish King Malcolm under his influence and established peace in Normandy. His red face earned him the nickname William Rufus and he had a paunch. But he filled his court with attractive young men.
They wore fashionable pointed shoes and grew their hair long. He is said to have promoted these men on the basis of their performance in bed, rather than their talent. Unusually for a monarch, he was never married and had no children.įurther evidence for his homosexuality comes from his squabble with the leader of the English church – Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury.Īnslem was already smarting at William’s tactic of delaying the appointment of new bishops so he could take money from the church’s estates.īut he allegedly went further, attacking the ‘effeminacy’ of William’s courtiers and calling for sodomy to be made illegal. Attacking these courtiers is as close as the archbishop could come to challenging the king himself, without being accused of treason. He adds: ‘They ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them.’ The chronicler, Roger of Hovden, who knew Richard personally, says Philip ‘honored’ Richard. ‘And the king of France loved him as his own soul and they loved each other so much that the king of England was absolutely astonished at the passionate love between them and marvelled at it.’ But that doesn’t explain Roger of Hovden’s next comment: Modern historians have claimed this was diplomacy – that getting in bed with each other was merely symbolic. Richard was a towering figure, up to 195cms (6’5”) tall, and reportedly very attractive with strawberry blond hair, light eyes and a pale complexion. No surprise the younger Philip may have been attracted to this courageous warrior. Once king, Richard joined Christian soldiers in the Third Crusade to conquer Jerusalem from the Muslims. Despite early military success, he failed in this quest.īut the crusade provides more evidence for his sexuality.
He apparently had one male lover, a young knight and fellow crusader, Raife de Clermon, who he freed from Muslim captivity.Īnd he is thought to have had sex with women too, even raping them.