How Gay Was Walt Whman? |

Contents:

• WAS WALT WHMAN 'GAY'? NEW TEXTBOOK L SPARK LGBTQ HISTORY BATE
• WALT WHMAN MA NO SECRET OF BEG GAY
• HOW GAY WAS WALT WHMAN?

WAS WALT WHMAN 'GAY'? NEW TEXTBOOK L SPARK LGBTQ HISTORY BATE

He lived om 1819 to 1892, a time when “gay” meant ltle more than “happy. A study of poet Walt Whman, seen this undated fileAs California looks to implement the untry’s first LGBTQ-clive curriculum, state tn officials and textbook publishers are grapplg wh how to refer to figur like Whman, who were believed to have been gay, bisexual or transgenr but never me out: Should we label them as such?

WALT WHMAN MA NO SECRET OF BEG GAY

9, 1977 fileHMH materials intify Harvey Milk, one of the untry’s first openly gay elected official, as gay, bee Milk publicly labeled himself as such.

”Nurse Florence NightgalePA / PA Wire via APAcrdg to scholars, the term “homosexual” did not enter mon age until the early 20th century, while “gay” beme popular the 1930s and ’40s, and “lbian” emerged the 1970s. "Polly Pagenhart, Our Fay CoalnMcGraw Hill also rejected the California missn’s remendatn to list the poet and Harlem Renaissance lear Langston Hugh as gay, sayg there is no evince to support the claim.

HOW GAY WAS WALT WHMAN?

“On some level, many of would argue that there were no gay people or lbians before the terms existed. He lived om 1819 to 1892, a time when “gay” meant ltle more than “happy.”Bgraphil materials, however, note he was volved for s wh a man named Peter Doyle.

And works like the "Calam" poems his "Leav of Grass" llectn, Whman discs romantic and sexual relatnships between men.As California looks to implement the untry’s first LGBTQ-clive curriculum, state tn officials and textbook publishers are grapplg wh how to refer to figur like Whman, who were believed to have been gay, bisexual or transgenr but never me out: Should we label them as such?While advot have argued for the importance of highlightg the historil ntributns of LGBTQ people, others have objected to imposg ntemporary terms on people who lived long before they were troduced. But for the award-wng gay poet Doty, textual analysis of the great Amerin bard required a personal analysis, which necsated this kd of spirual ntact.

"Labels like gay, queer, or bisexual were nonexistent Whman's era. Throughout Whman's wrgs there are nsistent referenc to his homosexualy.