I quote this endnote from Christopher Ryan
to demonstrate how
Michelangelo's sexuality remains
controversial to this very day.

"There is a consensus today that Michelangelo was homosexual in orientation. Whether as a homosexual he led an active sexual life is another matter: for differing views compare the robustly assertive [R. J.] Clements and the more cautious [J. M.] Saslow; see also biographies,... especially those by [R. S.] Liebert, [A.] Stokes and [N.] Leites. Such evidence as we have is indirect, and inconclusive. The present writer thinks that the fairly meagre indications in the sources suggest that it is quite likely that Michelangelo was to some extent homosexually active before he moved permanently to Rome in 1534, but improbable that he continued to be so after that date; this is the less surprising in view of his close friendship[s] in Rome with with the morally and religiously orthodox Tomasso Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna. Saslow sets Michelangelo in the context of attitudes to homosexuality in various regions of Italy in the sixteenth century, while a detailed study of the more immediate background of homosexuality in fifteenth-century Florence is given by [M.] Rocke."

-- Ryan, page 260


... and this is only in English; imagine, if you dare,
the raised voices, so to speak,
in Italian, German, French, Russian ...