{"id":20850,"date":"2024-06-18T10:14:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20850"},"modified":"2024-06-18T10:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T17:14:55","slug":"alfred-the-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/06\/18\/alfred-the-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred the Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;According to post-modern historians, every historical figure was gay, lesbian, or somehow queer (unless they are a designated evil personage, in which case they are straight). This now included Alfred the Great. The evidence? Using <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wylfcen\/status\/1798030015197831660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/yQeQ1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grammar<\/a> in modern English translations (and not the grammar of Old English, which is quite different).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">Found a historian arguing that Alfred the Great was gay&#8230; or gay-ish, maybe?&#8230; because he said the past \u2018came to mind\u2019, \u201ca strangely passive construction.\u201d This means he \u201cmodels bottomy historiography,\u201d somehow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8W9N9Gbcrd\">pic.twitter.com\/8W9N9Gbcrd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wylf\u010ben (@wylfcen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wylfcen\/status\/1798030015197831660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The article is called \u201cSkeletons in the Closet: Scholarly Erasure of Queer and Trans Themes in Early Medieval English Texts\u201d by Erik Wade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And yes so many in academia wonder why so many look down on them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/alfred-the-great-gay-academic-text.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/alfred-the-great-gay-academic-text.jpg 480w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/alfred-the-great-gay-academic-text-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Alfred the Gay\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"According to post-modern historians, every historical figure was gay, lesbian, or somehouw queer (unless they are a designated evil personage, in which case they are straight).  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