[ SECRET POST #4220 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4220 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Re: Warning, essay incoming

[(Anonymous)]

including by his own love letters to them.

Someone collected all his love letters to men (his three most serious relationships anyway) in a book. King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire by David Bergeron. I want to show this book to anyone who argues that modern people are exaggerating or misinterpreting things.


*James was apparently quite enamored of his wife at the beginning, and their marriage was a happy one until they fell out over the raising of their oldest son. He also carried on with a mistress for a period of about 2 years at one point, as well as having several male lovers over the course of his life.

The arrival of Robert Carr around that time also helped to shift his affections away from his wife. They were together for about six years, and he was with George Villiers for ten. He also referred to Villiers as his "wife" and talked in terms of marriage. And...so did their friends and family, who treated Villiers as his spouse. So the phrase "having several male lovers" sort of downplays the reality, which is that he had at least two serious male partners (and Esme Stewart, who was probably his first *anything*, who he might've wanted more with if they hadn't been ripped apart by his own government).

So, I mean, yeah, even though all the men in this scenario were bisexual, because they married and even eventually had kids with women, and they wouldn't have used the terms "gay" or "bi" to describe themselves* or marching in Pride parades, these were real M/M relationships seen at the time as nearly equal to the one he had with his wife.

Sorry, it's not you, it's the whole nudge nudge wink wink attitude I keep running into...

**(although there were other popular terms at the time, such as "masculine love")