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Contents:

• ¿ERA NEWTON GAY?
• GAY HISTORY MONTH TO 'OUT' NEWTON AND NIGHTGALE
• WAS SIR ISAAC NEWTON GAY?
• WAS ISAAC NEWTON GAY (AND NON-CELIBATE)?

¿ERA NEWTON GAY?

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?

GAY HISTORY MONTH TO 'OUT' NEWTON AND NIGHTGALE

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.

WAS SIR ISAAC NEWTON GAY?

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.

WAS ISAAC NEWTON GAY (AND NON-CELIBATE)?

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

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?