Michelangelo gay lover

Gil in the Journal of Sex Research. Homophobia seems to have come in with the Mongols and the Manchus. When American missionaries arrived in the s, they were shocked and infuriated by these practices and did everything they could to abolish them. Because Thailand is a Buddhist country and avoided the worst of colonization and Christian missionary influence, there is greater acceptance than elsewhere in present-day Asia.

Michelangelo 1475–1564

Michelangelo was gay (and other things we should know)

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Was Michelangelo Gay? Let’s Examine the Evidence

He alludes to several such allegations in his poetry and letters, only to deny them, as does his worshipful biographer Ascanio Condivi — Then and later, moralists eager to exonerate him of sin claimed that the dearth of documented acts, coupled with his protestations of chaste spirituality, meant he was not homosexual.