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BUT WERE THEY GAY? THE MYSTERY OF SAME-SEX LOVE THE 19TH CENTURY

Though many were aaid of persecutn and hid their sexual orientatn, others boldly me out a time when homosexualy was pletely nmned. Here we take a look at 10 of the greatt gay or bisexual figur classic lerature. Cavafy is a 20th century Greek poet, known for his highly homoerotic and sexually explic poetry.

While he remaed mostly obscure durg his lifetime, he's now e to be revered as one of the great gay poets of the past hundred years. Ifti Nasim was a gay Pakistani-Amerin poet who moved to the Stat to pe persecutn for his sexualy back his hometown.

Baldw is known as one of the great, proud gay artists of all time. Walt Whman is one of the great poets of all time, and a champn of homoeroticism the lerary form. "Walt Whman and Gay Liberatn are nearly synonymo for me, " wrote cultural historian Rictor Norton a 1999 say.

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