history's sappiest gays

I've always been fascinated by LGBT history, feeling like almost a sacred form of study for me as a... huge queer. It brings me closer to my heritage, a story that is often erased. Tales of riots, of secret subversion, of the continual, immortal life force of the LGBT community serve to educate and inspire young LGBT people, inclusive of myself. But LGBT history, like any other sub-field of history, is not only a cohesive storyline spanning thousands of years, but a long and illustrious archive of the lives of really fascinating people. Sometimes, really, really fascinating people. And I think that the study of LGBT individuals themselves is the most rewarding part of this kind of study--not only does it remind me of the persistence of the LGBT community (as all of these people are so unwilling to be beaten down) but of the one truly critical fact of historical study. People were always people. And people always do interesting things. And really, is that not why history is good in the first place?

Anyway. Now that I've pulled all of that philosophizing directly out of my ass, I did come here to share some history with you. Tonight--the story of the sappiest couple ever committed to the historical record: King James I and VI, and George Villiers.

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