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MRICE RAVEL éTA-IL GAY?

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secretive gay man. In ''Mrice Ravel: A Life, '' he argu that Ravel's hidn homosexualy was central to his life and therefore to his art,.

Certaly, many of Ravel's iends spected that he was gay, and their spicns are echoed here. gays and lbians. Ivry, a former rint of Paris who has also wrten bgraphi of Rimbd and Poulenc, never explas whether he thks Ravel was ''a very secretive gay man'' bee he was secretly sexually.

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active or bee he never nonted his homosexualy. ''While his parents were alive, Ravel allowed himself no public exprsn of his homosexual sir, '' Ivry wr, ''and after. Ivry trac the highs and lows of Ravel's mil reer, but he seems even more eager to fd evince of the poser's homosexualy.

'to honor Pan' to mean male homosexual activy, '' Ivry remds . Ravel was fascated by the young gay men at Le Bof sur le To, who danced wh one another, although he never danced himself, '' Ivry not. Appropriately perhaps, Ivry's fal pag are voted not to Ravel's homosexualy but to his place among the great posers of the morn era.

And, reassurgly, Ivry do not try to create the tegory of gay posers. In Mrice Ravel: A Life (2000) Benjam Ivry tri to monstrate, maly by circumstantial evince, that Mrice Ravel was “a very secretive gay man, ” and that his homosexualy explas both the sensualy of his mic and the aridns of his human relatnships (read a sample chapter here). " Secretive Ravel was tensely private about both his work and his love life Ravel was notorly secretive about all aspects of his life, om his posnal procs to his private life, which has led to speculatn that he may have been gay.

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