The Welsh council said King Arthur may have been a member of the so-called LGBTQ+ community, as he is said to have once worn women's clothing.
This legendary figure is depicted as the leader of the Britons in their fight against the Anglo-Saxons after the fall of Roman rule, and is the subject of numerous stories in Welsh mythology, including the quest for the Holy Grail and Possibly spurious achievements are detailed, such as quests. Battles against both human and supernatural enemies.
Despite questions about whether King Arthur actually existed, or at least the veracity of the fanciful stories of his life recorded hundreds of years after he supposedly ruled, Wales The left-wing council of Denbighshire included mythical rulers. In the timeline of LGBTQ+ history, daily telegraph report.
The decision to classify King Arthur as LGBTQ+ was reportedly due to local legend that the leader used women's clothing as a disguise to gain access to a woman in Ruthin, Denbighshire, with whom he had a romantic interest. It is said that this was the trigger.
His efforts are thwarted by his rival, Fail Mab Cow, who finds him with a lame knee injured in an earlier battle. For mocking Wounded Knee, Fail was sentenced to death by the author.
Other than the story of King Arthur disguising himself as a woman in order to pursue a heterosexual relationship, there is no evidence that he was depicted as LGBTQ+. In fact, accounts say the legendary king eventually married another woman, Guinevere.
The move by the Welsh Assembly comes amid wider efforts by Cardiff's Labour-run devolved government to promote “Welsh's LGBTQ+ history, culture and heritage” in local archives, libraries and museums.
The bid aimed to raise “awareness and understanding” of Wales’s described as diverse population.
Casting King Arthur as LGBTQ+ also comes amid attempts to recast British and European historical figures to fit modern, woke sensibilities.
For example, last year's Isle of Wight History Tour for schoolchildren introduced LGBTQ+ historical figures, including 19th century British poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson, whose sexual identity was hidden by “cis/heteronormative narratives.” He claimed, without evidence, that he was one of the people who
In another recent example, France's patron saint Joan of Arc was portrayed as a gender-neutral figure with the pronouns “they/them” in a play at Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London.
The theater company admitted there was no evidence to support such depictions, but defended the decision as simply “offering the possibility of an alternative perspective”.
