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Contents:

• ¿ERA NEWTON GAY?
• ISAAC NEWTON MONSTRATG GOG OUTSI IS GAY (1670)
• ISAAC NEWTON MONSTRATG THAT GOG OUTSI IS GAY (C. 1670)
• GAY HISTORY MONTH TO 'OUT' NEWTON AND NIGHTGALE

¿ERA NEWTON GAY?

A hypochondriac, obssive, nrotic homosexual, he had no iends to speak of.

ISAAC NEWTON MONSTRATG GOG OUTSI IS GAY (1670)

What evince is there to support the claim that Newton was a homosexual?

Th some morn wrers have claimed that he was gay or bisexual, but the tth will probably never be known. 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. Was Isaac Newton possibly gay?

ISAAC NEWTON MONSTRATG THAT GOG OUTSI IS GAY (C. 1670)

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.

GAY HISTORY MONTH TO 'OUT' NEWTON AND NIGHTGALE

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.

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. The archetypal Renaissance man ma signifint ntributns to var fields of the scienc and the arts—and lived his life as an openly gay man, acrdg to Walter Isaacson’s recent bgraphy of the artist and ventor.

His fellow member of parliament Sir Simonds D’Ew, a puran, outed Ban his “Autobgraphy and Corrponnce”  a passage that, acrdg to gay history wrer Rictor Norton, was supprsed om the book’s published versn 1845 and largely ignored by Ban’s bgraphers. He left no private diari and ltle rrponnce and, acrdg to Oxford Universy’s Newton Project, remas disputed whether the troubled scientist was a “reprsed homosexual, ” but “if te [this] would undoubtedly have placed a man of his background and upbrgg unr extreme mental stra.