Was Isaac Newton gay (and non-celibate)? - Factual Qutns - Straight Dope Msage Board

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?

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. 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.

GAY HISTORY MONTH TO 'OUT' NEWTON AND NIGHTGALE

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?

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WAS SIR ISAAC NEWTON GAY?

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. 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. Schools will be enuraged to hold lsons explorg the achievements of gay men and women throughout history as part of the first gay history project, to be held Febary, will highlight the hidn history of hoehold nam who would probably today inty as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, such as William Shakpeare, who was moured to be bisexual, and Florence Nightgale, who few people know was a events vered durg the month will clu talks on the early years of gays and lbians Brish televisn and discsns of the history of the Brish LGBT Mlim movement. Pupils will also study morn gay ins such as Freddie Mercury and Sir Ian McKellen, alongsi more historil gay and bisexual figur such as Isaac Newton and Alexanr the voluntary iative, molled on the succsful black history month held each October, is beg backed by the ernment and has been given a grant by the Department for Edutn and Skills.

It will be officially lnched at the Ho of Parliament on Febary Smh, the ernment mister rponsible for equaly, said: "I hope that lbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgenr groups and their supporters across the untry will take the opportuny to participate the month and anise LGBT events their areas. - a group mpaigng for LGBT equaly schools - to get gay issu onto the curriculum.

WAS ISAAC NEWTON GAY (AND NON-CELIBATE)?

There was never any ht of a sexual relatnship between them – and, as is often poted out, if there were any mors of Newton beg homosexual, his many enemi or rivals would have gladly ed this to smear his name.