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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.

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