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I know the Dark Angels get their namesake from a gay poet and a specific writing of his about being lgbt, but are there any connections to lgbt outside that? I know there was an old Victorian poet named Lionel Johnson who wrote “the dark angel”, a poem about his homosexuality. The 40k dark angels and their primarch are based off of this. It should have been him. He has the vision and strength to carry us to victory, and the wisdom to rule once victory is won.
Angels?
Fun factoid for the culture warriors on both sides; the Dark Angels are named after a Victorian poem about trying to come to terms with being gay and Catholic. They are strength. They are nobility. 
Warhammer 40k's LGBTQ representation works because it's boring
Warhammer 40k has too much much war and despair to bother judging people's sexuality or gender - and mundanity makes for good representation. It was once a part of the Dark Angels' lost homeworld of Caliban upon which sat the fortress-monastery of The Order, the elite monastic order of knights that was led by the Dark Angels' Primarch Lion El'Jonson before he was rediscovered by the Emperor and from which many of the later Astartes recruits for the I st Legion were drawn. After Caliban was destroyed by a Warp Storm summoned by the Ruinous Powers that tore the world asunder during the rebellion of Luther and the other Fallen Angels , the Dark Angels reshaped the old fortress into a massive mobile fortress-monastery.
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I look deep into the background of the Primarch Lion El Johnson (even further back than 2nd edition) who has recently returned to the 40k universe. What are his name's origins, is he gay/a man who. He studied at Winchester and New College, Oxford, then settled in London where he lived an ascetic, scholarly life, contributing critical articles and reviews to various periodicals. In he was converted to Roman Catholicism and became deeply interested in the Irish renaissance. Is there anything about the lion that connects to the themes
randomly remembering how the Dark Angel's Primarch is named after gay British poet Lionel Johnson, whose magnum opus was a poem called The Dark Angel, and their Chapter Fortress "The Rock" was named after a gay bar that was close to GW's Nottingham Headquarters. . I know the Dark Angels get their namesake from a gay
That was a great article. In their original Rogue Trader write-op, the 40k era Dark Angels had more of the arthurian/knights of the grail (in space) thing going on and you know what jokes people make about monastic groups of individuals of the same sex irl (Sacred Band of Thebes?). Back in the 80's they were more on the nose coming from the punk/metal-heads outta Nottingham. . Surprising ORIGINS of the Primarch Lion El Johnson
The Dark angels, in the long gone past, were gay. They were also kinda Indians, btw. Lionel Johnson was gay, wrote in his poem "Dark Angel " about the strive of keeping it hidden. "The Rock" was a gay bar around the place the GW authors lived. The Dark Angels were, in this time,the only gay Legion, and had to keep it hidden. Later, GW realized that in a game for kids, this is a bad idea. So. . 
Angel?
That might be plausible, if the Dark Angels weren't named after a gay poem and their Primarch is named after a gay poet. 80's GW would absolutely create a gay chapter and name their spaceship after a gay club. These are the people who named the big bad Ork after Margaret Thatcher. Edit: after spending an huge trawling google for a mention of any Nottingham bar called The Rock, I haven’t. .