Post the most famous Queer Member of your Nation. I present. Friedrich der Große

by Desperate-Farmer-845

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  4. So thats why the former prussian territories in poland vote more liberal

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    Pansexual, screwed everyone.

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    Gabriele D’Annunzio is famous in the context of war for his daring actions as a propagandist and soldier during World War I, especially for leading the symbolic flight over Vienna in 1918 and for his occupation of the city of Fiume (now Rijeka) in 1919, which he ruled as a self-declared leader. His exploits made him a celebrated nationalist hero in Italy.

  12. It broke my heart when I read the story how Friedrich’s father had his lover executed while he had to watch…

  23. Queen Kristina

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Swedish_queen_Drottning_Kristina_portrait_by_Sébastien_Bourdon_stor.jpg

    >Christina is remembered as one of the most erudite women of the 17th century, wanting Stockholm to become the “Athens of the North”. She is also remembered for her unconventional lifestyle and occasional adoption of masculine attire, which have been depicted frequently in media; gender and cultural identity are pivotal themes in many of her biographies.

    >According to Christina’s autobiography, the midwives at her birth first believed her to be a boy because she was “completely hairy and had a coarse and strong voice”. Such ambiguity did not end with her birth; Christina made cryptic statements about her “constitution” and body throughout her life. 

    >As a child, Christina’s mannerisms could probably best be described as those of a tomboy. Her father insisted she should receive “the education of a prince”, and some have interpreted this as acceptance, on the part of the king, that she had masculine features or that there was some form of gender ambiguity in her upbringing. She was educated as a prince and was taught (and enjoyed) fencing, horse riding and bear hunting. She was said to have preferred these masculine hobbies to more feminine ones.

    >As an adult, it was said that Christina “walked like a man, sat and rode like a man, and could eat and swear like the roughest soldiers”.

    >While Christina may not have been alone in her own time for choosing masculine dress (Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, for example, was known for dressing the same way), she also had physical features some described as masculine. According to Henry II, Duke of Guise, “she wears men’s shoes and her voice and nearly all her actions are masculine”.

    >The question of Christina’s sexuality has been debated, even as a number of modern biographers generally consider her to have been a lesbian, and her relationships with women were noted during her lifetime; Christina seems to have written passionate letters to Ebba Sparre, and Guilliet suggested a relationship between Christina and Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Rachel, a niece of Diego Teixeira, and the singer Angelina Giorgino. Some historians assert she maintained heterosexual, non-sexual, lesbian, or bisexual relationships during the course of her life depending on which source is consulted. According to Veronica Buckley, Christina was a “dabbler” who was “painted a lesbian, a prostitute, a hermaphrodite, and an atheist” by her contemporaries, though “in that tumultuous age, it is hard to determine which was the most damning label”. Christina wrote near the end of her life that she was “neither Male nor Hermaphrodite, as some People in the World have pass’d me for”.

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