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Thread #125426 Message #2825058
Posted By: Ebbie
29-Jan-10 - 07:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Subject: RE: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
GfS, here is a partial list of notables who lived "as if homosexuality is an essential part of building a society. It's a dead end!"
You are right, of course. Every single one of these men is dead...
Zeno, Greek philosopher (500 B.C.)
Sophocles, Greek playwright (496?-406 B.C.)
Socrates, Greek philosopher (470?-399 B.C.)
Aristotle, Greek philosopher (384-322 B.C.)
Alexander the Great, Macedonian ruler (356-323 B.C.)
Emperor Hadrian, Roman ruler (76-138 A.D.)
Richard the Lion-Hearted, British ruler (1157-1199)
Richard II, British ruler (1367-1400)
Leonardo da Vinci, painter-scientist (1452-1519)
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith (1500-1571)
Christopher Marlowe, British playwright (1564-1593)
King James I, British ruler (1566-1625)
John Milton, British poet (1608-1674)
Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer (1632-1687)
Frederick the Great, Prussian ruler (1712-1786)
King Gustav III, Swedish ruler (1746-1792)
Baron Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist (1769-1859)
Lord Byron, British poet (1788-1824)
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author (1805-1875)
Walt Whitman, American poet (1819-1892)
Samuel Butler, British author (1835-1902)
Algernon Swinburne, British poet (1837-1909)
Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1840-1893)
Paul Verlaine, French poet (1844-1896)
Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright (1854-1900)
Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo), British author (1860-1913)
Andre Gide, French author (1869-1951)
Marcel Proust, French author (1871-1922)
E. M. Forster, British author (1879-1970)
John Maynard Keynes, British economist (1883-1946)
Sir Harold Nicholson, British author-diplomat (1886-1968)
Capt. Ernst Roehm, German Nazi leader (1887-1934)
T. E. Lawrence, British soldier-author (1888-1935)
Jean Cocteau, French author (1889-1963)
Christopher Isherwood, British author (1904- )
Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish secretary-general U.N. (1905-1961)
W. H. Auden, British-American poet (1907- )
Jean Genet, French playwright (1909- )
Tennessee Williams, American playwright (1911- )
Brendan Behan, Irish author (1923-1964)