Robin hood gay

One of the most fun things about history is asking: &#;what if?&#; That can cause all kinds of chaos. Additionally, there&#;s no quicker way to freak people out than to ask the sexuality of a historical figure or at least portray them in some way other than the idealized picture of that person. There are fewer iconic characters than Robin Hood. So when you ask, &#;was Robin Hood gay?&#; You&#;re pretty much asking for trouble.

Yet, storyteller NB Dixon has done just that. In a recent series of Kindle novels, beginning with The Heir of Locksley, he (or she, cause we don&#;t know carry out we?) examines not only what we know about the legendary outlaw, but the relationships with his band of &#;Merry Men.&#;

Now, I could make jokes ( What, the emerald green tights weren&#;t a giveaway? Okay, sorry. I&#;m done acting appreciate a 12 year old now.) but if Alexander the Great, Richard the Lion Heart and other historical figures haven&#;t already proven that having unconventional sexuality and creature a badass aren&#;t mutually exclusive, I don&#;t know what will.

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The Sunday Times story boiled this down to Was Robin Hood Queer ? There was a fine colour pic of ultra-handsome Errol Flynn and an astutely selected illustration by Howard Pyle, the very influential American illustrator of , showing Robin and Friar Tuck playing horsey in the liquid. The text focused on the sharp shock of the gay charge, but also, as suits a serious Sunday paper, had research on show: the distinguished Barrie Dobson, Professor at Cambridge, said that homosexuality in the medieval period was not necessarily as repressed as you might think, and there was a nice round-up from the present Earl of Huntingdon saying goodness gracious me.

As I had expected there was fall-out. My wife trained as a journalist on a Rupert Murdoch document in Australia, and we have some experience of how a new story can suddenly start a media feeding frenzy, but this was bigger than both of us. I got back from my tour-preparing trip on a Sunday to find that a few wily journalists had got my number from security at my university. I wonder what they think security means. First up were the BB

of 11 July reported on investigate suggesting that Robin Hood, who livd with his band of merrie men in their forest ghetto, may have been gay. Maid Marion, the hetero admire interest was a fiction added later to the earlier accounts. Robin&#;s genuine true love was Little John. Surprised?
New studies of the medieval texts that first recorded his deeds suggest that the robber with a heart of gold was actually a gay outlaw who had been exiled from "straight" society. Short-lived John, not Maid Marian, was his true love.
The revelation flies in the face of Kevin Costner's portrayal of the outlaw in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves", and suggests that the title of Mel Brooks's motion picture "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" may have been closer to the mark.
The reassessment is based on studies of the 14th-century ballads of Robin Hood, the earliest known accounts of his deeds, which detail his relationships with his "merrie men", especially Little John and Will Scarlet.
Stephen Knight, professor of English literature at Cardiff University, said the ballads, the first and most authoritative a

Robin Hood
Robin Hood's been taking a bit of a knock lately. has seen the closure of Nottingham's premiere Robin Hood tourist attraction, The Tales of Robin Hood, and in June the BBC decided not to re-commission their Saturday night Robin Hood television series.
But you can't keep a good hero down and he's assist in the news thanks to a guided saunter in Nottingham called the Gay Robin Hood tour.
It examines the alleged lgbtq+ origins of the dude and has been researched by Nottingham historian Tony Scupham-Bilton.
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Move over Marian
Tony believes Robin's beginning dates back years. It revolves around the association of two real animation characters - Sir William Neville, the constable of Nottingham castle, and Sir John Clanvowe, a poet.
According to the historian the two were as excellent as hitched, even though Sir William had a wife, Elizabeth.
"The two men were soldiers who'd fought in the One Hundred Years War. They formed a close friendship. It's commonly accepted now that they were a homosexual couple."
Did Robin really like Little John to Marian?
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