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Historians don&#39;t doubt that Pyotr Tchaikovsky was gay, but an upg bpic filmed his native untry will.&nbsp;Well, sorry Rsia, but&nbsp;Tchaikovsky &mdash; along wh dozens of other Rsian cultural ins &mdash; were gay.

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WAS HENRY DAVID THORE GAY?A GREAT AMERIN WRER KEPT SECRETSJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·7 M READ·AUG 5, 2022--3SHAREHE WAS THE AMERIN WRER WHO LIVED OM 1817 TO 1862, WHOSE POETIC SPIR AND SEARCHG TELLIGENCE EPLY IMPRTED ON THE WORLD.

Dpe the aforementned marriage proposal, some historians and bgraphers speculate that Thore was gay.

WAS HENRY DAVID THORE GAY?

J Homosex. Although Henry David Thore (1817-1862) has often been scribed as lackg sexual drive or at most a rather reluctant heterosexual, a close study of his life and wrgs dit the prence of a pronounced ve of homoeroticism--although there seems to be no ncrete evince of any homosexual activy on his part. Cognizance of that homoeroticism helps one to unrstand many elements of his life and wrgs and suggts that his tense love of nature may have rulted om sublimatn of that homoeroticism.

The (homo)sexual temptatn Milton's Paradise regaed. "Mascule love, " Renaissance wrg, and the "new ventn" of homosexualy.

But he was a livg, breathg, gay man who yearned for love, loved, had his heart broken, suffered rejectn—personal and profsnal—and kept bouncg back. We thk of Henry David Thore as an eccentric loner who spent most of his time hikg the woods or livg a hut on Waln Pond, but you’ve wrten a novel about his life as a gay man. What brought you to Thore and what first ma you thk that he was gay?

SORRY, RSIA, BUT TCHAIKOVSKY WAS DEFELY GAY

In my younger days, when rarely occurred to me that I might be gay, I often fell for young women who had cute younger brothers I wanted to be close wh. I remember Jonathan Ned Katz explorg this his Gay Amerin History. Walter Hardg, thor of Days of Henry Thore, tells how he once proposed at a nference that Thore had a gay si.

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