Reply #38: Fun things to ponder [View All]

[benny05]

1) Some folks believe Shakespeare was the pen-name for the Earl of Oxford, who never married. Whether the Earl was gay or not hasn't been up for much large scholarly-wide discussion, as far as I know. (I personally think Shakespeare was from Stratford.)

2) Eleanor Roosevelt had several lesbian friends and has been accused as such many times to be one herself. One of the books written about ER tried to prove that she was (My Dearest Friend), but I don't think the arguments were that salient. Her daughter and sons never thought so and neither did her friends who wrote books about her (Joe Lash, for example).

3) I cannot speak to Leonardo. Just because he had many male friends doesn't speak to whether or not he was gay because men tended to hang out with one another more and had more intimate (meaning meaningful, emotional, not necessarily sexual) relationships.