By Anon
and found it ‘beautiful’
The top people are like greylag geese.
According to Gay History and Literature:
Hafiz (Mohammad Shams Od-Din Hafiz) (c.1319-c.1389) was a Persian poet who wrote in praise of boys. He was regarded as a Sufi mystic, but preferred taverns to mosques. His tomb in Shiraz (southern Iran) is a place of pilgrimage.
Mehmet II, the Conqueror (c.1430-1481) was the Sultan of Turkey who captured Constantinople in 1453 (renamed Istanbul) and founded the Ottoman Empire. He had boys in his harem.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) wrote “Of Friendship” which celebrates male love.
Frederick II, the Great (1712-1786) preferred boys to girls.
Henry James (1843-1916) had a gay theme in The Turn of the Screw. He was in love with the sculptor Hendrik Andersen.
General Viscount Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) liked boys.
Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) had a series of gay relationships with young men appointed as his secretaries. Used his immense fortune to extablish the Rhodes Oxford Scholarships.
Larry Kramer’s book “The American People: Volume 1,” explains that a large number of the USA’s Founding Fathers were gay.
President George Washington (1732-1799) and Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) are thought to have had a gay relationship.