There was Sappho, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, Tennessee Williams, Hart Crane, Yukio Mishima, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Liz Bishop, James Baldwin...my point, all of them ******* to a man, would drink u under the table (w/ good expensive bourbon), acknowledged genius intellectual poets, would kick ur punk *** with a left-right combination; so, on that note, I never, ever want to hear about a hate-crime committed by shaved-headed closet-cases who hate mirrors & can't admit the mirror even exists; now, that's ugly---gay is way weird (I tried it, didn't like it) but some of the greatest thinkers & doers (Alexander accepted, turned by Aristotle no less but maybe not, considering Plato's influence on the latter, a-hem---for the record Socrates was not, ******' horn-dog he was; now consider being a ***** straight old man (hello!) in a society dominated by questionably gay men and an overtly gay-male aesthetic (remember, to the Greeks the 'naked lady' was a revelation although horn-dogs (wizards, magicians) have been rubbing them out(pun) for millennia (this became writing but that in itself is only tangential to the overall topic).) have been proudly if not cross-dressedly (yes) homosexual; hell, the entire Greek system of city-states was predicated on buggery, pederasty & ****** (whatever that was & still is but the word doesn't get bandied about the way it did in good ol' gay-baiting (Wilde & Turing suffered for it; Genet & Isherwood reveled in it) days. Francis Bacon would kick ur as right now if he were here & he'd do it drunk. Hemingway (questionably): "***** is the willingness to do sober what one would do drunk."