i want to like. make a list of not-str8 historical figures bc ppl are tagging that walt whitman post like “omg wait really” & honestly yall deserve better.
Like, you know who wasn’t straight? Charlotte Bronte, who wrote Wuthering Heights. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who wrote Swan Lake. E.M. Forster, who wrote A Passage to India. Marcel Proust. Henry James. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Virginia Woolf. Herman Melville. Michelangelo. Leonardo Da Vinci. Socrates. William fucking Shakespeare.
And these are just (a few of) the ones we known about, because there’s a storied history of coded messages in literature that mean we are often looking gay metaphors in the face and not understanding them. We’re there, we’re out there, and I’m so mad that I didn’t know.
We have a history. We have a legacy. WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN HERE.
This post only lists white people for some reason, so here’s a list of not-straight writers and scholars and artists of color. They wouldn’t have used modern LGBT terminology to describe themselves, of course, but the fact remains that they weren’t straight.
- James Baldwin
- Sylvia Rivera
- Marsha P. Johnson
- Langston Hughes
- Frida Kahlo
- Billie Holiday
- Josephine Baker
- Bessie Smith
- Freddie Mercury
- Cesar Romero
- George Washington Carver
- Bayard Rustin
- Audre Lorde
- George Takei (who is still alive btw)
- Shah Hussain
If anyone knows about more historical not-straight famous people of color, please add on!
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