Howard Pollack, The Dean of Gay Amerin Composers, Amerin Mic, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Sprg, 2000), pp. 39-49
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Harris lays out the se Hanl was a homosexual. Ptr Ilyich TchaikovskyWhile historians Rsia nied for centuri that Tchaikovsky was gay, Eastern voic recent years have e around to the notn the tenrns the poser's mic me om gay sir.
Even Rsian Print Vladimir Put, famo for enforcg antigay laws, today acknowledg Tchaikovsky's leangs. Jean-Baptiste LullyThe liberte Lully was a poser, mician, and famed dancer the urt of France's Kg Louis XIV, where his gay sexualy was an open secret.
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At one pot, he had a well-known affair wh royal mic page B, acrdg to Gee Haggerty's Encyclopedia of Gay Histori and Cultur, but the boy was imprisoned when the poser fell out of favor wh the kg. Freric ChopThe legendary 19th-century Polish poser wrote love letters to Tyt Wojciechowski that revealed his persuasn, acrdg to historian Michel Lariviere, and there is evince he had male lovers before that as well, cludg the openly and famoly gay Marquis Cte. Franz SchubertWhile Schubert as a young man was fely known as a womanizer, he likely was bisexual, later livg many years wh gay poet Johann Mayrhofer.
Francis Jean Marcel PoulencAn out poser early-20th-century France, Poulenc created mic opposg the homophobic Nazis durg the 1940s, acrdg to Daisy Falurt's L Six. And acrdg to bgrapher Howard Pollack, he was also nfint his homosexualy om an early age, even though he showed ltle clatn to e out publicly.
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He also was half of classil mic's greatt gay power uple. "You are a homosexual and may never change, " she wrote. While not known for tolerance himself, Thomson was arrted 1942 durg a raid on a gay borllo near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, acrdg to bgrapher Anthony Tommasi.
He was also out, hangg New York's gay cultural circl, at one pot sharg a brownstone wh other famed gay artists, Brten and W. His 2015 orator Sentenc told the story of Alan Turg, the mathematician who cracked the German Enigma durg World War II but was later prosecuted for homosexualy.
Muhly is open about his own sexualy and mental health, but he lets his work speak for Del TrediciPultizer Prize-wng poser David Del Tredici has a posn reer spanng s, wh a large body of work focg on his inty as a gay man. His recent work Bullyci als wh gay teen suici as a rult of bullyg, while other works foc on the joy of CoriglianoOver the past 40 years, John Corigliano has wrten more than 100 sr, wh many of them earng aclas and awards. In 2008, he wrote the mic to Prop 8: The Mil, his attempt to pick apart the anti-gay marriage lobby's logic for California's amendment that banned gay WawrightMany might not know that along wh beg a renowned ntemporary volist, Ruf Wawright has posed two operas.