As annual Enforced Gay-Worship Month finally comes to an end this June 30th (only to begin again anew at precisely 12.01am on July 1st), it seems the campaign to “set the historical record queer” (rather than straight) continues apace with it. It is easy indeed to find fawning lists these days acclaiming all the top historical figures as being gay, lesbian or bisexual.
Here’s one from leading gay outlet Pink News, joyously outing the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Julius Caesar for being bent as a boomerang. Disturbingly, this very same lavender list also praises Florence ‘The Lady With the Lube’ Nightingale for supposedly engaging in outrageous lesbian acts with her own aunt. And this is not to mention Malcolm X (now Malcolm LGBTQ) and Louisa May Alcott, who was famously into Little Wxmen. In light of Ridley Scott’s new biopic of Napoleon, out last year, Pink News even dubiously acclaimed Old Boney as being bisexual: “Not tonight, Josephine – I fancy a go on Joseph this week.”
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