Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

#1

Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:44pm

here's the scoop!

Yup!!!

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Updated On: 8/27/07 at 04:44 PM

#2

re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:45pm

I was just about to post this article.
Look how far we've come!

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#3

re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:47pm

You beat me to the punch once again Elphaba!

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#4

re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:48pm

It would be very interesting to see when/where things changed.

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#5

re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:50pm

There is a book about this that was first published twelve years ago:

Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

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Updated On: 8/27/07 at 04:50 PM

#6

re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:53pm

"It would be very interesting to see when/where things changed."

My guess is around the time one of the Pope's boyfriends ran off with a Bishop.

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#7

re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:57pm

so that's what they mean by Bishop takes Queen.....

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#8

re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:58pm

D2 - that book is in my home library - very interesting (if a bit dry) read.

#9

re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:59pm

Mine too, DG. That's how I knew about it. Fascinating book.

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Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)

#10

re: Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 5:05pm

The controversial gay scholar John Boswell wroite about these unions 12 years ago, in his landmark "Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe"--which was published posthumously after we lost him to AIDS on Christmas Day 1994.



Boswell had previously written "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century," for which he received the National Book Award.


Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

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#11

re: Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 5:06pm

And D2 and DG--you both beat me to the punch...or should I say, to the altar!

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#12

re: Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 5:06pm

Uh, yeah.

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Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)

Updated On: 8/27/07 at 05:06 PM

#13

re: Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/27/07 at 6:03pm

"so that's what they mean by Bishop takes Queen....."

Love that line.

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#14

re: Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Posted: 8/28/07 at 5:14am

"Just think, Herbert; in a thousand years' time, this will still be controversial."

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