In fun trivia facts today, we learned that there are a lot of people in history who were believed to be gay or bisexual.?Here are some?historical and influential people in history you probably didn’t know were gay.
Alexander the Great
The great king of Macedon was believed by many to have a relationship with his childhood friend and second-in-charge Hephaestion.
Leonardo Da Vinci
The painter was committed of sodomy when he was caught with a well-known male prostitute of the time. His art shows influences of eroticism and androgyny.
Michelangelo
The artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel made his sexuality very clear in?the poetry that he wrote to many lovers, one of whom was Tommaso del Cavilleri.
Oscar Wilde
The author of The Portrait of Dorian Gray was a lover of Robert Ross.
President James Buchanan
He shared a boarding house with former VP Rufus Kind and Buchanan’s biographer insisted he was gay.
Eleanor Roosevelt
This is a maybe, but the beloved First Lady was thought to have fallen in love with Associated Press reported Lorena Hickok.
Walt Whitman
His poems contained a handful of homosexual and bisexual undertones.
h/t First to Know?/ fun trivia facts
