A historical tour for schools has branded former poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson among “notable LGBT people”, despite the celebrated 19th Century writer having been married with children.
Alfred Tennyson, the author of famed narrative poems such as The Charge of the Light Brigade, has been included on an Isle of White tour of alleged LGBT historical figures whose sexuality was supposedly hidden by “cis/heteronormative narratives”.
The LGBT heritage trail — organised by the Out On An Island group and funded by the National Lottery Heritage fund — which was reportedly set up with the hopes of being included as part of school curriculums, labelled the former poet laureate as one of the island’s “notable LGBT people”, claiming that his biography demonstrates the “meaning of queering” while asserting that he engaged in “same-sex romantic…
