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From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: music and nazism
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 16:49:24 EDT
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In article <1532@bbncca.ARPA> rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) writes:

>OK, Gordon, here's the beginning of a list of composers who may've been
>homosexual...

I take it that by the term "homosexual" you include people who were
attracted to members of the opposite sex throughout most of their
lives, so that a person may be both homosexual and heterosexual.  Or
do I misunderstand you?  I am trying to figure out why your list
includes Schumann and Beethoven, but omits Tchaikovsky.  What is the
biographical evidence that either Schumann or Beethoven had any
homosexual relationships?  If there is none, allow me to present my
list of American presidents who may have been homosexual:

	Ronald Reagan
	Jimmy Carter
	Gerald Ford
	Richard Nixon
	Lyndon Johnson
	 etc.

Richard Carnes