What can Richard I tell us about medieval masculinity?
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How to View Richard as a Gay Icon
"We're never really going to get to the bottom of what his sexual preferences may have been," he says. "There's always been, and there always will be, figures who did not fit into that heterosexual worldview." But we can't know how these figures feel or identify when we don't have their own words,. He thinks thinking of Richard as a gay icon is perhaps doing a bit of a disservice to some of those other figures that we have more certainty do have sexual desires.
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