![]() ![]() Over the February half term, the National Maritime Museum will host several LGBTQ+ History Month events, including a “Penguin Pride” event at which children can learn about “same-sex behaviour” between birds. “For all that naval tradition was believed to have been ‘all rum, sodomy, and the lash’, the National Maritime Museum is doing itself no favours by concentrating quite so heavily on the second of those, with minimum historical evidence.” ![]() The ‘men who loved him’ did so because he was a quintessential military leader who fought actions of annihilation, not because they fancied him. “Admiral Nelson’s heterosexuality was so vigorous as to be a subject of intense discussion amongst everyone who knew him, so to try to drag him into a Queer History Night sounds bizarre. Lord Roberts, a historian whose book Leadership in War documents Nelson’s life, said: “This smacks of sheer desperation by the National Maritime Museum.
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