'Leonardo' Creators on Gay Aspect, Female Me And Thriller Narrative - Variety

Contents:

• LEONARDO DA VCI’S SEXUALY: WHY HISTORIANS BELIEVE THE FAMED ITALIAN ARTIST WAS GAY
• LEONARDO, LADI' MAN: WHY N'T WE ACCEPT THAT DA VCI WAS GAY?
• ‘LEONARDO’ CREATORS ON FG A GAY STORYLE, FEMALE ME AND THRILLER NARRATIVE
• LEONARDO DA VCI’S SECRET GAY LIFE
• ‘LEONARDO’ CREATORS ON FG A GAY STORYLE, FEMALE ME AND THRILLER NARRATIVE
• IS LEONARDO DICAPR GAY? ON SEXUALY & LONG LIST OF EX
• WAS LEONARDO DA VCI GAY?
• GAY MOURS ABOUT LEONARDO DI CAPR
• IS LEONARDO DIPR GAY? KNOW THE SHOCKG TTH ABOUT DIPR’S SEXUALY!
• «RENDS LE STUME SPIRMAN» : UNE SCèNE SEXE GAY TOM HOLLAND DANS THE CROWD ROOM DéCHAîNE LA TOILE

LEONARDO DA VCI’S SEXUALY: WHY HISTORIANS BELIEVE THE FAMED ITALIAN ARTIST WAS GAY

In Leonardo, the character is shown to be gay – somethg that chim wh the current amic subject of da Vci’s sexualy has been discsed for s, wh historians, artists and even Sigmund Frd weighg wh theori about his sex life.

LEONARDO, LADI' MAN: WHY N'T WE ACCEPT THAT DA VCI WAS GAY?

A ntroversial say by Frd 1910, entled “Leonardo da Vci and A Memory of His Childhood, ” psychoanalys the artist, posg that he was gay, but celibate. A portra of da Vci, cir 1500 (Getty Imag)The Guardian’s art cric Jonathan Jon wrote that da Vci was “almost certaly gay”, but highlighted his life-long creative fatuatns wh women. Plan to-renews until ncelledTry for eeThe recent bgraphy of da Vci by Walter Isaacson also agreed that the artist was likely gay.

Age-gaps were not exclive to same-sex relatnships: girls might also be married very drama 'Leonardo' on Amazon Prime, starrg Aidan Turner, picts Leonardo as a gay man.

The rerds of the Office of the Night, brilliantly analysed by historian Michael Rocke, reveal that Leonardo’s day “the majory of lol mal at least once their lifetim were officially crimated for engagg homosexual relatns” for Leonardo, he lived wh his entourage of good-lookg assistants and pupils, drsed them and himself luxur cloth cludg pk and purple tights, and drew stupendoly sensual male most queer b of patg Bra … Leonardo’s Virg of the Rocks, at the Natnal Gallery.

‘LEONARDO’ CREATORS ON FG A GAY STORYLE, FEMALE ME AND THRILLER NARRATIVE

As for Homer’s Achill and his—ahem—“beloved” squire Patrocl, leavg asi the fact that the Iliad is a story and the two characters may never have existed as real people, the verdict is evable: they were gay.

Go back far enough history, Wtern history at any rate, and seems almost everyone was gay. The chief evince that Leonardo was gay seems to be that he was once acced (but not nvicted) of engagg cent behavur wh a teenage boy. He n fortably be st as homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, asexual, queer, or even genrqueer (not the same thg), as sired.

And th, through the magic of Hollywood, the spected pedophile is transformed to the pneerg homosexual.

LEONARDO DA VCI’S SECRET GAY LIFE

So stead of downplayg their central character’s potential perasty to foc on his art (and crime-solvg), they have upgrad the snt historil evince that Leonardo exhibed any sexualy at all to a cematic exploratn of homo- and hetero-eroticism art.

What is known, even after five centuri, is that gays did not exist Renaissance Florence. Like lickg a Goln Gaytime on Oxford Street, anyone uld do whout the slightt implitn of transgrsive performativy. Movg om soclogy to psychiatry, Frd famoly theorised that Leonardo sublimated his homoerotic urg to his art, but Frd projected his fantasi onto his subjects even more often than the Guardian.

You’d thk that a reprsed homosexual redirectg his passns would have been more productive.

‘LEONARDO’ CREATORS ON FG A GAY STORYLE, FEMALE ME AND THRILLER NARRATIVE

Lu, there is a lot of talk Italy about Leonardo portrayed as gay and his “gay kiss” beg a breakthrough for RAI. Frd also believed Da Vci was homosexual, and although he tend to thk every man and woman had an obssn wh phallic objects, is worth readg some of his reasong. Leonardo DiCapr is gay—not that there’s anythg wrong wh that—and he pays hot mols to be his public-facg girliend but only until they’re 25.

” And also the misogyny of “dumpg” every woman at 25 is a natural lady repellant—and he wants and needs lady repellant bee repeatedly turng women down when sgle would rult others assumg he is ed gay, which he wants to hi.

IS LEONARDO DICAPR GAY? ON SEXUALY & LONG LIST OF EX

”But there is no nyg the fact eher that he was a —vegetarianleft-hanccentric (he ged birds jt to make them ee)non-nformistgayDa Vci’s relatnship wh men and his sexualy have been dissected and prented to time and me brg my take on Vci’s portras of womenUnlike Michelangelo’s women who were manly, Da Vci ma only four portras of women his wh an Erme (1489) is one of those portras that exus sire. So I’d be lyg if I didn’t say I was hugely relieved by the, there is a lot of talk Italy about Leonardo portrayed as gay and his “gay kiss” beg a breakthrough for talked about this a lot, and we believe that this was part of his life. Although historians pot out ad nseam the so-lled appropriatens of applyg morn nstcts such as "gay, " "bisexual, " "homosexual, " or "queer" to an ancient kg like Alexanr, no ser historian doubts that history's penultimate warrr-monarch was attracted to men.

Frd somehow duced hundreds of years after Leonardo's ath that the artist was homosexual, but (ahem) celibate. Hodg wr that Alan Turg was the "founr of puter science, mathematician, philosopher, breaker, strange visnary and a gay man before his time.

WAS LEONARDO DA VCI GAY?

By enablg Brish telligence to Enigma msag, Alan Turg also enabled the Alli to feat the Adolf Hler World War, the Brish ernment "thanked" Turg for his wartime efforts by arrtg him 1952 for the "crime" of homosexualy. Soon after beg chemilly strated by orr of a Brish urt as punishment for beg gay, Turg died by suici, gtg cyani, addn to ventg morn putg, Turg also nceptualizied and created a scientific tt for nfirmg artificial telligence. The Universy of Illois at Sprgfield's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng, and Allied Rource Office offers a tratg, however technilly accurate, asssment of the sexual ambiguy of the legendary sculptor and pater of the ceilg at the Siste Chapel Rome.

GAY MOURS ABOUT LEONARDO DI CAPR

Pietro Areto’s suggtns of perasty), there is no clear evince of Michelangelo’s homosexualy or, at least, none ditg overt sexual activy, " reads an entry at the universy's webse.

Gtgs is creded wh leadg the succsful movement to change the psychiatric and psychologil profsns' view of homosexualy as a mental pathology. But that had more to do wh her very private nature, acrdg to her sister, Bear Ri, than did wh a lack of pri beg gay.

Beg one of the natn's first openly gay elected officials, Milk was the standard-bearer of what durg his time was lled the gay liberatn movement. Before he was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Masne, Milk helped stave off a nservative backlash agast LGBT equaly the form of the so-lled Briggs Iniative, which would have barred gay people om teachg California's public was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.

IS LEONARDO DIPR GAY? KNOW THE SHOCKG TTH ABOUT DIPR’S SEXUALY!

Sce Milk's victory, hundreds of LGBT ndidat have been elected across the were a few out gay and lbian ndidat elected before Milk, cludg Elae Noble to the Massachetts Hoe of Reprentativ and Kathy Kozachenko to the Ann Arbor, Mich., Cy Council, both 1974.

For weeks 1997, Ameri wonred and ABC's publicy partment fueled speculatn about whether or not DeGener's character would follow the lead of the real-life lbian who played her by g wh clever humor cludg a gag about receivg a ee kchen appliance for exg the closet (an obv reference to the age-old homophobic notn that the LGBT muny "recs" members), the wily viewed g-out episo of Ellen ma televisn history — and ma a lghg natn measurably more fortable wh and acceptg of gay people general. As a member of the Massachetts Hoe of Reprentativ, the first bill he troduced, 1973, was to ban antigay discrimatn hog, employment, and public acmodatns. Famo for his quote about the need for uny among mory muni, transplanted Br Harry Hay found the Mattache Society 1950, one of the morn world's first anizatns for gay men.

Ironilly, the Amerin Communist Party kicked him out bee believed his homosexualy ma him a "secury risk. " After more than a away om activism, Hay returned to his work fightg for LGBT equaly by foundg the Los Angel chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front. Dpe his personal undog followg his arrt, nvictn, and sentence of two years hard labor for the "crime" of homosexualy (technilly, "gross cency"), the wrer of classics such a The Importance of Beg Earnt and The Picture of Dorian Gray remas one of the wrten word's most famo and celebrated artists.

«RENDS LE STUME SPIRMAN» : UNE SCèNE SEXE GAY TOM HOLLAND DANS THE CROWD ROOM DéCHAîNE LA TOILE

It is not unmon for popular figur the entertament dtry to be surround by gay mors, and Leonardo DiCapr is no exceptn to this. Dpe the actor’s notor reputatn for datg an extensive list of supermols Hollywood, Leonardo DiCapr has nsistently been mored to be gay.