<p>Schools will be enuraged to hold lsons explorg the achievements of gay men and women throughout history as part of the first gay history month.</p>
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GAY HISTORY MONTH TO 'OUT' NEWTON AND NIGHTGALE
Th some morn wrers have claimed that he was gay or bisexual, but the tth will probably never be known. June is Pri Month, which memorat the Stonewall rts of 1969, when patrons of a gay bar, The Stonewall Inn, New York Cy fought back agast a police raid.
It was an flectn pot the gay liberatn movement.
S., the vast majory of whom at the time were gay men. One branch of ACT UP lled the Science Club was head by Mark Harrgton, an HIV-posive gay man. A hypochondriac, obssive, nrotic homosexual, he had no iends to speak of.
WAS SIR ISAAC NEWTON GAY?
What evince is there to support the claim that Newton was a homosexual? There is a narrative travellg the Inter now that Sir Isaac Newton was actually gay, had a lifelong relatnship wh another man, and had a mental breakdown when said relatnship of urse, a unternarrative that that was jt a iendship, and Newton was too Puran for that. It has also been suggted - though this is purely njectural and much disputed - that he was a reprsed homosexual, which if te would undoubtedly have placed a man of his background and upbrgg unr extreme mental stra.