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looking through the prism of time #women & #LGBTQ #celebrity #eccentrics of the #Baroque such as #shakespeare #MaryWroth #SirFrancisBacon & #InigoJones it’s easy to view them as the glittering stars of the age... & they were! Certainly in the Stuart Court but even monarchs cannot prevent bullying & abuse - some royals have even been victims - King James I (when still King James VI of Scotland) was bullied & abused over his romantic relationships with men - in 1582 he was kidnapped & tortured by Presbyterian Puritans for 9months in order to force him to end his relationship with Esme Stuart - Duke of Lennox. As anyone who has ever been a victim of abuse knows, one of the many weapons in the abuser’s Arsenal are the means to break down their victim’s faith in humanity & their right to safety. As a victim of physical & emotional abuse as a child & an adult, I understand the stigma, embarrassment & shame of victimhood. In 1623 King Charles I wrote “Cruelty is the weapon of cowards” as an annotation in #SirFrancisBacons last book “New Atlantis” - a utopian thesis on humanity which Bacon wrote after his #persecution #blackmail & sham trail triggered by his #gay relationships in the Jacobean #royalcourt - in New Atlantis Bacon addressed bullying & bigotry & invented the term “masculine love” to replace the derogatory terms Ganymede & sodomite which at the time were the only words to describe #gay relationships - That was 500 years ago! Yet #Bullying & #hatecrimes continue in 2020 despite widespread awareness of abuse adult bullying & hatecrimes for cruelty is still the weapon of cowards #plusçachangepluscestlamêmechose for #Change can only emerge if we all recognise the fragility of the human condition & support the vulnerable by #embroidering #kindness & #tolerence throughout all our interactions #stopbullying #adultbullying #bigotry #begentle #bekind (at Mayfair, W1 London) https://www.instagram.com/p/B94wtyGA0iW/?igshid=1x5ys1974zzo7

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@Muir @jamiejonestv drop round to explore the history of #LGBTQ & the birth of The #Eccentric & #eccentricity as quintessential to the soul of the British & Irish in the 17th Century following the coronation of our first openly & unapologetically #gay king in 1603 - He liberated #lgbtqs & #women to unleash their talent - #shakespeare #francisbacon #ignatiusjones #marywroth #elizabethcarey emerged from the shadows of the Age of #Elizabethan #brutality igniting the Mutability of #genderdebate & the world’s first #celebrity #transgender #maryfrith star of The “Roaring Girl” became a household name ⚜️Unfortunately the liberties of JamesI & King Charles I enraged the #bigots & in 1642 Puritans waged the Civil Wars & abolished Democracy in 1648 #olivercromwell established his Puritan Military Dictatorship & embarked on his program of racial & moral cleansing with #genocides on #Irish & #lgbtq until 1658 History exposes the threat of #bigotry poses to progress & the importance of celebrating #Eccentricity - subsequently we cogitated on the extraordinary experiences we have encountered on @muirs photographic documentary of my life as a #mayfair #eccentric - next adventure: #westminsterabbey & as #virginiawoolf declared: “....all should let flowers fall on the tomb of #aphrabehn for ‘tis she who enabled women (and #lgbtq ‘s) to Speak their mind” (at Mayfair) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Nq4xDAzqx/?igshid=69p4tjnesrqp

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TIME HAS NO DOMINION ⚜️I hear The #battlecry of the #Jacobean & #Caroline #Women & #lgbtq of history from 1603 cry out to us to redress the #heteronormativenarrative lies of #jacobean history 1693-1625 - informed by #bigotry rather than #truth & expose the #achievements #discoveries & #endeavours of the Jacobean & Caroline #LGBTQs & #women such as #Shakespeare #MaryWroth #SirFrancisBacon #maryfrith & legions more ⚜️it’s time to explode the #heteronormativity of history & #celebrate the independent women & LGBTs in school curriculums #statues & festivals & destroy all those statues which celebrate #olivercromwell who abolished #democracy 6-20th December 1648 & established his #Puritan #military #dictatorship to carry out his #moral & #racialcleansing of Britain & #Ireland through a series of genocides on #Irish #Welsh #Cornish #Scottish #celts #Eccentrics & LGBTQS - slaughtering over 25% of British civilians & over 1/3 of #IrishCatholic’s 1648-1658 @highfashionhockey #crown & collar @missladybird24 (at Mayfair) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2QztgUgQdk/?igshid=16w47voov5t87

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Celebrity & Eccentricity first emerged during the Rise of #women & #LGBTQ+ after 1603 when our first openly #gay monarch #KingJamesI removed a host of restrictions & #class & #gender barriers designed to keep people in their place & #women & #lgbtq🌈 in the shadows⚜️By loosening #censorshiplaws James enabled the rise of #satire & #newvoices & #newideas but it was his abolition of ancient #sumptuarylaws which for centuries had #oppressed people via thousands of arcane laws dictating the colours #textiles & #silhouettes one could wear according to #class & #gender which finally unleashed the talent achievements #fashions & ideas of women & #lgbtqplus aka “The #Eccentrics like #sirfrancisbacon #malfrith #marywroth #aphrabehn & #shakespeare who were the #celebrities of the #Modern #Age! https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/what-can-oscar-wilde-tell-us-about-kim-kardashian/p087hsb9 @daniellismore @bbc @jononamara @highfashionhockey @furiousgoose @dahc_dermur_viii @markogm @dragsyndrome @therealpandemonia (at Mayfair, W1 London) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-udvZvAGDs/?igshid=148y3nzgr2x5q

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Celebrity & Eccentricity emerged during the Rising visibility of women & LGBTQIA Torchbearers from 1603 after the openly gay KingJamesI removed a host of restrictions & #class & gender barriers designed to “keep people in their place & women & LGBTQ+ in the shadows”⚜️By loosening censorship laws, James enabled the rise of #newvoices & #newideas but it was his abolition of ancient Sumptuary Laws which had oppressed people via thousands of laws limiting clothes as a uniform of class & gender. His abolition of ALL sumptuary laws unleashed a host of freedoms triggering the Birth of Fashion as Art for the masses as clothes became a means of expressing ideas & individuality. The leading LGBTQIA Torchbearers such as Shakespeare, trans-actor & activist Mall Frith, Mary Wroth, Mary Herbert, Elizabeth Cary, Sir Francis Bacon became the first #celebrities of the Modern Age from 1603-1642 (Puritans dragged British & Ireland back to medieval thinking & law by abolishing democracy & imposing a Puritan Military Dictatorship) 1660-1840! #lgbtqia #queerhistory #womenshistory #eccentricity #dandy #dandizette #celebrity #fashionasart #shakespeare #mallfrith #marywroth #sirfrancisbacon #kingjamesi (at Mayfair, W1 London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPjFbVCg0K-/?utm_medium=tumblr

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With @daniellismore @nationalliberalclub Celebrating The Baroque & the birth of Eccentricity - the Ancient Greek word ekkentros described the measurement of planets deviation from a circular orbit, ekk "out of" + kentron, “centre”. The words #eccentricity & #celebrity both words entered #britain & #ireland during the #jacobean 1603-1625 when Britain’s first openly gay monarch, King JamesI celebrated the #LGBTQIA thinkers & artists who’d been muted by the Calvinist prejudice of the #Elizabethian ⚜️#Shakespeare #Sir Francis Bacon #ElizabethCary #MaryWroth #InigoJones & other #Queer #eccentrics became #celebrities through the new freedoms & opportunities in the #Salons of the Jacobean & Caroline Era (1603-1942) who championed the cultural freedoms of the #aroque & new ideas of the #scientificrevolution ⚜️Eccentricity was valued over class, gender, colour & religion. Gender became more fluid enabling the rise of #Dandies #dandizettes & the fame & celebrity of transman actor Mall Frith (born Mary 1584-died Mall Frith 1659) who was the first transgender Torchbearer of History. Born into the artisan class of #cordwainers on Aldergate Street London amongst the aristocracy, next door to the famous Poet John Milton - Mall Frith became a household name as an #actor & his extraordinary journey to live & dress as a #transman & fight in the Civil War as a Royalist hero. Frith’s eccentricity & refusal to adhere to gender stereotypes was celebrated in the Restoration. Alas 400 years later, historians have maligned Frith as an immoral criminal based on Calvinist prejudice. This same prejudice has been used as a means of “racially & morally cleansing history” of women, LGBTQIAs & non-AngloSaxon Torchbearers of History & still too little is being done to redress this crime #artasfashion #fashionasart #queertorchbearers #historymatters #blackhistorymatters #womenshistorymatters #queerhistorymatters (at The National Liberal Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEw2_mwAp37/?igshid=11k63tl9omcmr

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The coronation of our first openly gay monarch King James I & his eccentric wife Queen Anna’s passion for the arts & #scientificrevolution Unleashed the Achievements of the subversive women & LGBTQIAs hitherto erased or heteronormalised by #straight-White male Victorian #historians who used bigotry above facts to create a straight heroic narrative about Great straight-white Men, thereby ghosting the subversive women & #lgbtqia from history & depriving generations of our heroines & heroes. Everyone has been denied the true history of Great Britain and Ireland by the Victorian Calvinist heteronormative histiography. In order to rewrite history as a heroic narrative highlighting the deeds of Great straight anglosaxon Men. 💜 - From 1604 the openly #gay King JamesI new freedom’s to express ideas through #print & #fashion triggered the opportunities for all classes & genders As the English language expanded & transformed. Eccentric & #celebrity were amongst a plethora of existing words to acquire new meaning. Celebrity had previously referred to the “celebration of the sacred” #Eccentricity had been an astronomical measurement for a planets #deviancy from a circular orbit. By 1618 Celebrity described the “condition of being famous” & Eccentricity had became the term for subversive women like subversive#writers #Marywroth & #ElizabethCarey & #lgbtq #eccentrics #malfrith #Shakespeare, #SirFrancisBacon #aphrabehn & #inigojones - these Eccentrics were “The First Celebrities - grabbing the headlines in the 1600s - “The Century That Wrote Itself” & igniting the flame of possibility in a population ravenous for #newideas & #opportunities #queerhistorymatters #womenshistorymatters #lgbtqia #history Thank you to @homehouselondon @muirvidler @johndavidgusman & @velveteccentric #sustainablefashion #fashionasart #ancestralballgowns https://www.instagram.com/p/CEVB2pRgv-j/?igshid=8sbcklnuid6n

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History is not made by Conformists it’s made by originals who dare to cut a line of their own! Eccentrics who see beyond the boundaries of the impossible & Dare! Since our first openly gay #kingjamesi took the throne in 1603 #lgbtqia like #sirfrancisbacon #Shakespeare #MaryWroth “The Dark Lady” mathematician #MaryHerbert #transgender actor writer #MalFrith - #blackbritish composer #IgnatiusSancho #OscarWilde et al have been the #torchbearers of #history - but after Daniel O’connell successfully fulfilled his lifetime obsession to #abolishslavery throughout The Empire in 1833, revisionist historians such as #ThomasCarlyle #Macauley et al have deliberately & systematically erased the achievements of hitherto celebrated #LGBTQ & #blackhistory using a heteronormative Calvinist historiography employing bigotry rather than facts to create a heroic narrative focused on the deeds of Great #straightwhite Men - thereby robbing us of our black & #LGBTQ heroines & heroes & denying everyone The Truth! As a historian I have been committed to breathing life back into the ghosted women & black & #queerheroes & #heroines of #history & campaigning for their achievements to be recognised & the monuments that previously attested to their achievements to be reinstated. A good example is #celebrtity #transgender hero #MalFrith 1586-1659 ⚜️Born female 1587 he lived, dressed, acted, wrote, fought for his king, died & was buried as a man in 1659 in (#lgbtq architect #inigojones ) St Paul’s Cathedral with a monument erected to honour him with a #johnmilton poem recognising transgenderism in the afterlife! After St Paul’s burned down in 1666 Frith’s his tomb was moved to #stbrideschurch Church #FleetStreet & since 1845 it has been shamefully neglected & is now overgrown. It’s time to celebrate to breathe life back into these ghosted LGBTQs of history! #queerhistorymatters #womenshistory #blackhistorymatters - to everyone! (at Mayfair, W1 London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDmsgTNgKmd/?igshid=n5n19c85n36m

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part of my Unleashing the achievements of women & LGBTQs erased or heteronormalised by #straightmale #historians who used bigotry above facts to create their straight heroic narrative depriving women & #LGBTQs of our heroines & heroes & everyone of the truth 💜 BIRTH OF THE CULT OF FAME - From 1604 the openly #gay King JamesI new freedom’s to express ideas through #print & #fashion had triggered the #cultoffame As the English language expanded & transformed. #Eccentric & #celebrity were amongst a plethora of existing words to acquire new meaning. Celebrity had previously referred to the “celebration of the sacred” such as in the ceremony of transubstantiation of the Eucharist. #Eccentricity had been an astronomical measurement for a planets #deviancy from a circular orbit. By 1618 Celebrity had recalibrated to describe the “condition of being famous” & Eccentricity had became the term for subversive women like subversive#writers #Marywroth & #ElizabethCarey & #lgbtq #eccentrics #malfrith #Shakespeare, #SirFrancisBacon & #InigoJones - these Eccentrics were “The First Celebrities” grabbing the headlines in the press & igniting the flame of possibility in a population ravenous for #newideas & #opportunities - (at Mayfair, W1 London) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-zb0frgjof/?igshid=1wnc8x3p2e8qb

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#Celebrating All #Mothers & #Grandmothers this #motheringsunday 2020 with a loving #Salute from the heart 💜 The #salute has been the greeting exchanged by #eccentrics #dandies & #dandizettes for centuries stripping away the #formality of standardised greetings - adding an element of #creative #cheer & endless #possibility ⚜️ The #eccentricsalute serves as a substitute to the #handshake still utilised in the contemporary businessworld - but for those of us outside the gates of business - the Eccentric #salute of the 17th C #salon spearheaded by women & LGBTQs such as #marywroth #shakespeare #sirfrancisbacon #inigojones #elizabethcary #wiltonhouse #malfrith #aphrabehn serves as a both a greeting to express good cheer & as a farewell ⚜️heartfelt good wishes & affection pour forth from each new salute as new friends & old embark upon life’s journey From a swift side salute whilst dashing down #BondStreet to the more creative salute of the salon - the salute serves all ⚜️ start #saluting today & Leave the stuffy formality of the #bonebreaking #handshake to the highflyers of life’s #boardrooms #mothersday @velveteccentric @daniellismore @lordbreton @highfashionhockey @johndavidgusman (at Mayfair, W1 London) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-C-JSwgPFC/?igshid=lnk8c00dho67

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#queenshouse designed by Britain’s first formally trained architect #InigoJones court favourite & lover of #SirFrancisBacon #Shakespeare & #KingJamesI - commissioned by Queen Anna (wife of the first openly #gay King James I ) in 1616. Anna was known as the dancing Queen & like all the Stuart Queen she was very hands-on when it came to staging #plays #masques #ballets & #Operas - visiting dignitaries were bemused & delighted by Anna & James playing the leading roles in Performances. Anna loved to dance & descriptions of her leaping & spinning across the stage, tossing her husband the king & princes in the air astonished visiting royals - it was a long way from the rigid formality & brutality of the court of Queen ElizabethI & her obsession with bear baiting as entertainment- for despite revisionist #historians Elizabeth had no taste for theatre or ballet & it wasn’t until 1603 that Sir Francis Bacon, Shakespeare & subversive women & #lgbtqsupport such as #MaryWroth Could finally publish their work. Unfortunately Anna never got to dance in the Queens house as funds ran low. The arrival of 15 year old heiress Queen Henry - wife of CharlesI & Daughter of French Queen Marie de Medici - Mother of the Baroque ⚜️ Queen Henry arrived with plenty of funds to complete the work and the rest are new #artists composers singers - #VanDyck #artemisiagentileschi etc - Like Anna, Queen Henry didn’t mind getting her hands dirty, painting backdrops & stagesets & sewing costumes. The Stuart’s enthusiasm for the arts & pleasure transformed #Britain into the hub of the #Baroque @johndavidgusman @markogm @velveteccentric (at The Queen's House) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8giS4fAzUH/?igshid=wkopcdtv06ww

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Celebrating #LGBTQ Britain & Ireland since 1603 when we welcomed our first openly #gay #monarch by cheering “The Queen in dead! God save Queen James!” ⚜️Within a week of his coronation in 1603 he knighted the 42 year old Francis Bacon who had been abused by the Elizabethan Court for being #gay & his lover Shakespeare staged his first play #AsYouLikeIt ⚜️In 1604 James loosened censorship laws & #ElizabethCary became the first woman to write a play under her own name ⚜️James abolition of #sumptuarylaws ushering in an era of #crossdressing flamboyant #fashions & unrivalled liberties during which #women & #lgbtqs not only came out of the shadows of the medieval but became the stars of the age & spearheaded the Baroque & new ideas of #scientificrevolution - Sir #FrancisBacon #Shakespeare #MaryWroth & #CountessofPembroke became household names ⚜️In 1610 Mal Frith became the world’s first Transgender Celebrity staring in a play about his life - #Puritans expanded their propaganda campaign & in 1618 JamesI was called to the Privy Council to answer charges about his displays of sexual affection with his “wife” George Villiers - He Declared “I will not have it (his love for George) be thought a defect!” His Queen, Anna supported their love & the 3 were buried together in Westminster Abbey ⚜️KingCharlesI expanded the liberties & refused the Puritan Parliaments demands to criminalise #crossdressing effeminate men & masculine women, close #theatres #taverns ⚜️KingCharlesI courage in refusing to bow to Parliamentary bigots ended in the #civilwars & #genocides of bold women & #LGBTQs as #Cromwell #Puritan #Military #Dictatorship of racial & moral cleansing ended with his death in 1658 & ensured Britain & Ireland never again tolerated religious fanaticism ⚜️It angers me that white straight Male Victorian historians - driven by bigotry rather than truth - have ghosted the achievements & names of the Eccentric women & LGBTQs who defined the Modern Age from 1603 onwards ⚜️I am committed to erasing the #bigotry from #history & celebrating the magnificence genius & talent of #Eccentric women & #lgbtq using source material of the age #pride (at Royal Festival Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2zsc-9A8qJ/?igshid=1dwjd67wb4vnt

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#beautyheals - diagnosed with a #braintumour i soon realised no medication could fully alleviate the #fear & #agony that threatened to consume me 💜 I immersed myself in obeying the request of my godfather #quentincrisp - researching the #history of birth of #eccentricity in the #British & #Irish #imagination in the #baroque through the allegiance of our first #gay #sovereign #KingJamesI & #mariedemedici “Mother of #opera “in 1603 ⚜️In the #Jacobean & #Caroline Ages #women & #lgbtq emerged from the shadows of the #medieval - #sirfrancisbacon #marywroth et al & set the world #ablaze with #newideas & #artforms⚜️For whilst #historians would have us believe #history was made by straight men ... in fact over 85% of the world’s #talent is made up of #lgbtq & #women ⚜️ #knowledge is liberating & in the quiet repose of @dennissevershouse beauty reaches the places in my body no #painkiller can touch ⚜️ Slip a #book in your @hermes #crocodilebirkin & relish the #liberation #photograph @muirvidler @timyipstime #loveinfinity @meihuiliu8 @daniellismore @aspreylondon @chaumetofficial #oscarwilde #deprofundis (at Dennis Severs' House) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3p1KDtgIJE/?igshid=1pnpy2dl5gydx

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I’m campaigning to re-erect the #LGBTQ monument honouring the worlds 1st #celebrity #transgender Polymath Mal Frith - erected in #stpaulscathedral in 1659 Born Mary c1587 Frith Lived dressed fought acted smoked wrote died & was buried as a man in 1659 on the 26th July - a date I’d like enshrined in the calendar for Frith was a giant of history! His extraordinary life as a #transman honoured by the monument in St Paul’s adorned with the first poem celebrating Trangender by #JohnMilton - When #InigoJones St Paul’s burned down in the Great Fire 1666 - Frith’s monument was destroyed & his grave moved to #stbrides #fleetstreet - Frith was an ardent Royalist Celebrated throughout the #Restoration & 18thC as the embodiment of the #espiritdecorps cour of the halcyon days of the Jacobean & Carolean 1603-1641 Numerous playwrights based plays on Frith’s extraordinary life! In 1642 he became a national hero for his bravery in the Civil Wars when Puritans fought against #Royalists #dandies #artistslibertarians & LGBTQs - Frith shot #Puritan #generalfairfax in the shoulder & relieving him of £4000 which he personally gifted to KingCharlesI to fund his cause. Fairfax was 2nd in command to Cromwell Puritan Army! #MalFrith embodied #queerlife bravery, eccentricity daring & individualism the Stuart monarchy nurtured from 1603 when the son of #MaryqueenofScots King JamesI Ascended to the throne after the repressive regime of Queen ElizabethI - JamesI was Britain’s first openly #queer monarch whose most controversial act was liberating the population to wear what they wanted regardless of class or gender unleashing a trend for #crossdressing & flamboyancy which enraged the vocal & violent Puritan minority & thrilled LGBTQ torchbearers of the #Baroque & #ScientificRevolution #shakespeare #sirfrancisbacon #marywroth #inigojones #maryherbert #lgbtqpride https://www.instagram.com/p/CCMP2edA6eU/?igshid=ezi79jppauyt