Was Gandhi Gay?
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lovecraft68
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My question is who cares if he was? Will everything he stood for now be dismissed because he liked men? This is why I hate the net and the way everything is now a media show. Let sleeping dogs lie. It doesn't matter. If the internet was around during the Kennedy years Camelot would have been portrayed as Caligula (if misspelled I'm sorry). And we would have been a laughing stock long before Clinton got a "Lewinsky".
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I care if he was a faggot. Faggots need some comfy spot like Key West to romp and prance, maybe Puerto Rico.
lovecraft68
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I like to think that all brilliant men were/are bi.
Guess this will be the one time I'm glad I am not brilliant then.
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what a stupid title!
No he was not gay if that report is true-- he was bisexual. As we all already know, gay men don't fuck young women, and that's how we know they are gay. If they did fuck women as well as men, they would be, once again, bisexual.
Present company excepted, to my straight friends here-- don't get all butthurt, okay?
No he was not gay if that report is true-- he was bisexual. As we all already know, gay men don't fuck young women, and that's how we know they are gay. If they did fuck women as well as men, they would be, once again, bisexual.
I think it's very often true. You need a flexibility of thought and mind to be brilliant, and people who are utterly straight (or utterly gay or utterly lesbian for that matter) might-- just might, not always-- be lacking in some flexibility in other thoughtways as well.I like to think that all brilliant men were/are bi.
Present company excepted, to my straight friends here-- don't get all butthurt, okay?
lovecraft68
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No he was not gay if that report is true-- he was bisexual. As we all already know, gay men don't fuck young women, and that's how we know they are gay. If they did fuck women as well as men, they would be, once again, bisexual.
I think it's very often true. You need a flexibility of thought and mind to be brilliant, and people who are utterly straight (or utterly gay or utterly lesbian for that matter) might-- just might, not always-- be lacking in some flexibility in other thoughtways as well.
Present company excepted, to my straight friends here-- don't get all butthurt, okay?
No harm no foul. You could even have a point. Extremely intelligent people tend to be a little deviant in different ways. I think this comes from being bored with the mundane concepts of the people around them so they tend to have broader horizons. Then again I know some dumb bi sexual people so the theory may need some tweaking. Of course as you made sure to point out present company here is exempt from that remark.
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It wouldn't be the only factor, of course. Just one out of many.
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I like to think that all brilliant men were/are bi.
case in point william shakespear. (sorry for the horrible spelling bill)
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Actually, we're not sure about him. Meaning those who actually knew him in person and wrote about what he was like made no mention of his attraction for men as well as women. Not saying he wasn't, but I think we really need more solid evidence than poems written in hopes of gaining patronage or money to indicate that he was sleeping with the guys as well as the girls, not just writing about it for patronage or money.
Shakespeare wrote about being a soldier without being one. About being a shepherd without being one, about being a king without being one, about being a serial killer without being one. That's what writers do, after all. I've written gay male stories from the pov of being a gay male without being either--convincingly enough that I've had some gay men write to me and say that I'd written up their story for them (and, interestingly, others write to me and say it wasn't convincing at all...). Shakespeare writing convincingly about being a man attracted to another man only proves that he was a good writer, not that he actually slept with other men.
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