Sexuality (Chapter 23) - Walt Whitman in Context
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Walt Whitman: A Gay Life
“In these dozen poems, Whitman attempts to establish a definition of same-sex love decades before the word ‘homosexual’ was in common parlance, and he dreams of a supportive community of lovers more than years before today’s LGBTQ rights movement,” she wrote
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Walt Whitman is considered by many to be a gay icon
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Most critics believe [1] [2] [3] that these poems are Whitman's clearest expressions in print of his ideas about homoerotic male love
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Labels like gay, queer, or bisexual were nonexistent in Whitman's era
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But the kind of same-sex intimacy Whitman described -- and enjoyed in real life -- was accepted at the time as a natural part of heterosexuality
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(/ ˈ hw ɪ t m ə n /; May 31, – March 26, ) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature
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But his appreciation of the male form is apparent in his work -- be it observing "twenty-eight young men bathe
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Walt Whitman never publicly addressed his sexual orientation in his poems, essays or lectures
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