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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. 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.

A hypochondriac, obssive, nrotic homosexual, he had no iends to speak of.

GAY HISTORY MONTH TO 'OUT' NEWTON AND NIGHTGALE

What evince is there to support the claim that Newton was a homosexual? 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.

NEWTON, GAY, THE DUCHESS OF MARIBOROUGH, AND VOLTAIRE; BOROUGH, AND VOLTAIRE

| 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. 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? 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.

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