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<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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¿ERA NEWTON GAY?

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Th some morn wrers have claimed that he was gay or bisexual, but the tth will probably never be known. A hypochondriac, obssive, nrotic homosexual, he had no iends to speak of.

What evince is there to support the claim that Newton was a homosexual? 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. 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 SIR ISAAC NEWTON GAY?

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. Por otro lado, el hecho que Newton fue homosexual expliría su rácter tan rervado.

WAS ISAAC NEWTON GAY (AND NON-CELIBATE)?

Personalmente, más allá una anécdota llamativa en el mundo la ciencia me rulta bastante diferente si Newton era gay, nque tal vez ta rmación sirva para reivdir el papel los homosexual en la ciencia, ya que no fue el úni so. ¿Recuerdas ahora a algún otro científi que fue homosexual? | Celibate or Closet Homosexual?

And Fat then formed another close same-sex relatnship, leadg further crence to the ia that he may have been gay, and by implitn that his relatnship wh Newton was physil, or at least romantic. 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.

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