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Edited to add: See one list of famous gays & lesbians

Edited by - GaySatyr on 2/26/2005 10:44:51 AM

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Turing's work on breaking military codes saved thousands of lives and was one of the main contributing factors in the defeat of Nazi Germany. One of the earliest electronic computers was designed and constructed by him for this work.

After the war he was persecuted by homophobes who hounded him through the courts until he eventually committed suicide.

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I think attempting to define someone else's sexuality is fairly pointless. I think that ones sexuality is defined by who one freely chooses as a relationship partner -- not by any one, or even, several sexual situations in which one might have been involved.

By all accounts, Alexander the Great had a male lover whom he cherish above and beyond all other relationships. He also had a wife. (Several if I remember correctly - or were they concubines? Same difference.) But it was his male lover whose death drove Alexander into deep despair. It was his male lover who Alexander decreed a god for all his kingdom to worship in honor of the man's death. I think that, in spite of wives and children, we can safely assume Alexander the Great to have been gay.

Lincoln may (or may not) have had some male-to-male sex at some point in his life. Regardless, I seriously doubt that he was gay as I define it above nor do I think he would even qualify as bisexual.

James Buchanan, on the other hand, was very likely at least bisexual and more probably gay -- but we'll never know for sure.

Oh, and as a matter of record, possibly the single most important person in the entire American Revolutionary War was Prussian Baron Friedrich von Steuben, who whipped a rag-tag collection of men into the disciplined army who eventually won the war. Without him, it is very likely that American Revolution would have been lost. And he was queer as a three dollar bill.

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