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WAS HANL GAY? / MILOGIST'S PROVOTIVE NEW BOOK EXPLAS WHY MIGHT MATTER

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He spent years Italian urts and English untry tat where homosexualy was known to predomate (even if the word didn't exist yet).

IS THERE ANY EVINCE THAT GE FRIEDRICH HäNL WAS GAY?

Dpe spendg nearly his entire reer as a celebry London -- a cy whose love of gossip was every b as veloped the 18th century as is today -- he left no solid ditn that he ever had a love affair of any kd, gay or straight.

HISTORIAN CLAIMS HANL WAS GAY

The Italian and German urts which Hanl served durg his early 20s were populated by prc and rdals whose homosexualy was an open secret. Still, the more prsg qutn remas: Even if Hanl were gay, would that be an important velopment our unrstandg of him as an artist? This qutn is raised every time a scholar tri to suggt a gay aspect to some mician's private life -- most recently, for example, nnectn wh Schubert and Ravel.

HANL WAS GAY - HIS MIC PROV , CLAIMS AMIC

It is only when homosexualy enters the picture that "don't ask, don't tell" go to effect, and the privacy of long-ad artists sudnly be paramount some quarters. The real importance of Harris' study is that she the gay environment which Hanl moved -- whether or not he participated s sexual activi -- to illumate the mic he wrote durg the Italian perd and later. Through far-reachg parisons wh lerature and the visual arts, she unravels the elaborate d referenc to homosexualy embedd the ntatas -- referenc that Hanl's ted dience would surely have ught.

“WAS GEE FRIRIC HANL GAY?”: ON CLOSET QUTNS AND CULTURAL POLICS

It's possible, other words, to trace a direct lk between the gay is of the Roman, Florente and Hanoverian urts where Hanl learned his craft and the mature dramatic mic of his later years, operas and orators alike.

It has been claimed that Burlgton Hoe and Cannons, the hom of the Earl of Burlgton and the De of Chandos, were homosexual or homoerotic settgs and that Hanl's prence the environments suggts that he was ‘gay’ or fluenced the secular works he posed there. Examg tail bgraphil rmatn about John Gay, Alexanr Pope and William Kent, eighteenth-century bgraphil acunts of Hanl and sights om the history of sexualy, this article argu that there is no basis for the claims about the homosexual ix at Burlgton Hoe and Cannons or for Hanl's sexualy. He studied unr Frank Bridge, John Ireland and Arthur Benjam among others, and was also a fe ground-breakg operas, which clu Peter Grim (1945), and The Turn of the Screw (1954) – and his famo War Requiem – tackle ntemporaneo issu around psychology and post-war trma, as well his own homosexualy, which was illegal Brten’s lifetime.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* HANDEL GAY

The Photos of Naked Men Berl Show the Intimacy of Gay Sex.

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