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Showing posts with label gay popes. Show all posts

Showing posts with label gay popes. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 August 2010

Benedict IX: The First (Primarily) Gay Pope

Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher, in " First Gay Pope ", called Benedict IX (r. 1033-1045; 1047-1048) “the first pope known to be primaril...

Gay Popes: Benedict IX

Benedict IX (r. 1033-1045; 1047-1048) Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher, in The First Gay Pope and Other Records, rightly called Benedict IX (r. 1033...

Monday, 9 August 2010

Gay Popes: Alexander VI (r. 1492-1503)

The Borgia pope, Alexander VI (1431-1503) was believed to have reduced Rome to unparalleled depths of depravity, and the city teemed with as...

Saturday, 7 August 2010

Gay Popes: Leo X (r. 1513-1521)

Accounts about the homosexual liaisons of Julius's successor, Leo X (Giovanni de' Medici, 1474-1521; reigned 1513-21), are recorded ...

Monday, 26 July 2010

Gay Popes, Papal Sodomites

For the month of Gay Pride (in church), it would be great if we we could simply celebrate a list of unambiguously gay popes - but we can...

Thursday, 20 May 2010

Gay Popes: Julius II

Julius 11 (1443-1513) positioned himself for high office during the reign of his uncle Sixtus IV. A lover of art, he patronized both Michela...

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