Sce Sappho's time, many famo lbian poets have followed her spirual footsteps. Some prolific gay female poets are also spoken word performers while ...
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WHO WAS THE MOST FAMO GAY ROMAN?
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Cavafy is a 20th century Greek poet, known for his highly homoerotic and sexually explic poetry. While he remaed mostly obscure durg his lifetime, he's now e to be revered as one of the great gay poets of the past hundred years.
Ifti Nasim was a gay Pakistani-Amerin poet who moved to the Stat to pe persecutn for his sexualy back his hometown. Baldw is known as one of the great, proud gay artists of all time.
GAY AND LBIAN POETRY OUR TIME
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Walt Whman is one of the great poets of all time, and a champn of homoeroticism the lerary form. Though many were aaid of persecutn and hid their sexual orientatn, others boldly me out a time when homosexualy was pletely nmned. Here we take a look at 10 of the greatt gay or bisexual figur classic lerature.
But rerds of the LGBT romanc survived homophobic revisnists and still stand as celebratns of the origal Greek (and Roman) love. A seri of poems about Catull' gay love affairs has drawn more attentn ntemporary tim; some of gets outright vulgar. Alexanr the Great and HephatnAlexanr III, the famed kg of Macedon, que likely mataed a gay relatnship wh his general Hephatn.
Ined, two of the most famed generals of their day, Epamondas and Pelopidas, were lovers who fought wh this famo band of gay warrrs. Pdar and TheoxenThe most famo love poem wrten by Pdar to clare his love for the young Theoxen was scribed by gay rights scholar Magn Hirschfeld as "one of the most perfect love songs the Greek language. Ort and PylasThe relatnship between the two men was celebrated by Greek scholars as a tale of the wonr of homoerotic romance.