A historic tour for colleges has branded former poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson amongst “notable LGBT people”, regardless of the celebrated nineteenth Century author having been married with kids.
Alfred Tennyson, the writer of famed narrative poems such as The Charge of the Light Brigade, has been included on an Isle of Wight tour of alleged LGBT historic figures whose sexuality was supposedly hidden by “cis/heteronormative narratives”.
The LGBT heritage path — organised by the Out On An Island group and funded by the National Lottery Heritage fund — which was reportedly arrange with the hopes of being included as a part of faculty curriculums, labelled the previous poet laureate as one of many island’s “notable LGBT people”, claiming that his biography demonstrates the “meaning of queering” whereas asserting that he engaged in “same-sex romantic relationships”.
“What ‘queering’ means is to embrace historical figures in their entirety, including the parts of their lives which are not so clear-cut or easy to interpret from a modern standpoint,” the tour states according to The Telegraph.
“We look at the evidence of people’s past words and actions from first-hand perspectives and offer a space to examine them in a way that challenges the dominant interpretation of assumed cis/heterosexuality.”
“It is important for us to show that diverse genders and sexualities have been present throughout history. There is more to our past than cis/heteronormative narratives would have us believe.”
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While Tennyson’s sexuality has been topic to some debate, given his shut relationship together with his would-be brother-in-law, Hallam, who was set to marry Tennyson’s sister Emilia earlier than his premature loss of life in 1883.
There is not any proof that the 2 ever engaged in gay acts, but, some have pointed to Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam — which was devoted to Hallam — as proof of a romantic hyperlink, given the well-known conclusion of the verse: “Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all”.
The LGBT narrative is belied by the truth that the poet was married to his spouse Emily for 42 years till his loss of life in 1892. The couple produced two sons throughout their marriage.
Denouncing the revisionist historical past, Professor Frank Furedi mentioned: “There is a manner during which historic figures are seen as reflections of our modern society and its social teams.
“So Joan of Arc becomes trans, and all these historical figures are now ascribed the label of LGBTQ. There is this impulse to read history backwards. This is just a kind of anachronistic projection.”
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