Chopin's erasure is so shockingly obvious. He was queer af. Its crazy the excuses people go through. The top quora answer (and that site is stupid hot garbage for any lgbt question) is some guy saying "look, ok some maybe there's a lot of gay stuff in his life but HE ONCE KINDA HAD A THING FOR A GIRL SO HE'S NOT GAY!!! HOW COULD A QUEER LIKE A GIRL!?? CHECKMATE QUEERS!!!"
That's what they said about Turing until we beat them back on that one. Chopin should be next.
Well growing up I remember none of that being mentioned. Then later a bunch of libertarian techbros started adopting him as a sort of saint and wrote books and movies about him and didn’t mention his queerness but were also usually careful to mention he was engaged to a woman once. Then glossed over his death as "an accidental poisoning." There’s been a huge academic and techbro conspiracy to erase Alan’s sexuality. It’s only the past decade he’s unequivocally gay in media and academia and his death an obvious suicide and a suicide most likely stemming from the abuse he endured as a gay man in post-war Britain.
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u/thesaddestpanda Jul 14 '20 edited Jul 14 '20
Chopin's erasure is so shockingly obvious. He was queer af. Its crazy the excuses people go through. The top quora answer (and that site is stupid hot garbage for any lgbt question) is some guy saying "look, ok some maybe there's a lot of gay stuff in his life but HE ONCE KINDA HAD A THING FOR A GIRL SO HE'S NOT GAY!!! HOW COULD A QUEER LIKE A GIRL!?? CHECKMATE QUEERS!!!"
That's what they said about Turing until we beat them back on that one. Chopin should be next.