Subject: RE: Sexual identity & trad folk music
From: GUEST,Danny Vogel
Date: 30 Apr 17 - 04:33 PM

I'm a little late to the party but I've considered this before too. I mostly work in phases and have not yet hit my "queer identity through trad. song and ballad" phase, but consider Willy of Winsbury (Child 100).   The father/king's attraction to Willie was a mitigating factor in his approval. He was going to hang Willie until he found out what a babe he was!
debatable, he might have thought.
1 he was good breeding stock, just because one male can note another Males physical beauty, it does not necessarily mean they are sexually attracted, his exact words were
'It is nae wonder,' said the king,
'That my daughter's love ye did win;
Had I been a woman, as I am a man,
My bedfellow ye should hae been."
think about it, having a suitable Heir was important to Royalty