Ok, my edits to Aelred's Wikipedia page have survived so far. I added the personal harassment to the "life" section, and the "sexuality" section is no longer just a blatant reactionary hit piece against Boswell.
I'll try and let these edits settle for a while before I move on to "do you realize how infamous a medieval man's sexual reputation would have to be for people to remember it after he was dead"
@alpine_thistle is “posthumous reputation” the normal heading for what I (a non christian) would expect to see under a heading like “canonization status” or is its useage there some weird landgrab to keep people from using the term to talk about eg. the debates over his queerness
@alpine_thistle yeah i wouldnt necessarily want the discussion off in an easily deleted section but the actual content was way more narrowly tailored than i was expecting lol
@Satsuma this whole article is really light on detailed biographical/personal information (I'm assuming because the best source of info on that is also one of the books that thinks he was definitely gay)
@alpine_thistle lmao yeah that does limit your options
@Satsuma whoever fucked up the "sexuality" section previously used an article by the same author to downplay the queerness and totally ignored the book he wrote 6 years later that was like "ok yeah he was in love with dudes"
@Satsuma I think that's a pretty normal heading, it mostly addresses how he was viewed as a leader/theologian/saint and the ultimate fate of his shrine/relics
I'll probably weave his sexual reputation into the "life" and "sexuality" sections