Oscar Wilde was gay -

[johnnydepp]

Does anyone know about any other famous gay authors prior to 1960?

 

[AJ 447]

your mom

 

[pentylspacer2600]

your mom

zing!

 

[Bassomatic]

@Oscar Wilde lol feg
@Oscar Wildean lol feg

Plato was a faggot, in a figurative and literal sense. He came up with the whole, platonic love concept when he got old since no one wanted to fuck him in the ass anymore.

Nigga was thinking about how to better society, because he got friend zoned so hard he tried to invent a Utopia.

 

[The Shadow]

I believe you're misinformed, per Blackadder:

"Yep! Big, bearded, bonking, butch Oscar. The terror of the ladies. 114 illegitimate children, world heavyweight boxing champion and author of the best-selling pamphlet "Why I Like To Do It With Girls." And Massingbird had him sent down for being a whoopsie."

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Mozart.
He was a writer of sorts.
Also a massive flamer.

 

[Recoil]

Probably too many monks & scribes to even count.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

I mean, there are a number, but sometimes it's down to hearsay and speculation.

One of the more famous "probably" examples would be Sir Francis Bacon, for example. According to people who knew him who who have record of, he probably was gay, or at least bi. On the flip side, he was married to Alice Barnham... Doesn't mean anything conclusive, either, because lots of gay people have been married to a hetero partner. And again we get into hearsay and gossip, because according to some accounts they were very much in love, and yet according to others they had a terrible marriage.

 

[Rand /pol/]

your mom

Stop stealing my jokes libtards

 

[OB 946]

Da Vinci. This was explored thoroughly in Assassin's Creed.

 

[Clop]

If you don't buy into the whole "Greek culture was different, doesn't count as gay" bullshit then there was plenty of philosophers slapping into each others' asses.

 

[Jazz Cat Blini]

Michelangelo was *most likely* gay for some 23 year old boipucci he met when he was at the ripe old age of 57. Remember, they met in 1532, which makes Michelangelo about 100 in 2019 years.

TL;DR

"It is impossible to know for certain whether Michelangelo had physical relationships (Condivi ascribed to him a "monk-like chastity"),[65] but the nature of his sexuality is made apparent in his poetry.[66] He wrote over three hundred sonnets and madrigals. The longest sequence displaying a great romantic friendship, was written to Tommaso dei Cavalieri (c. 1509–1587), who was 23 years old when Michelangelo met him in 1532, at the age of 57. These make up the first large sequence of poems in any modern tongue addressed by one man to another; they predate by fifty years Shakespeare's sonnets to the fair youth:

I feel as lit by fire a cold countenance That burns me from afar and keeps itself ice-chill; A strength I feel two shapely arms to fill Which without motion moves every balance. — (Michael Sullivan, translation)

Cavalieri replied: "I swear to return your love. Never have I loved a man more than I love you, never have I wished for a friendship more than I wish for yours." Cavalieri remained devoted to Michelangelo until his death."

He was a great artist, and deserves every ounce of credit he receives in the modern age as he does. Look into his sculpting if you haven't. He truly was the greatest of all time.