[presidio9]

There's a whole a string of poems he wrote for a friend (he was rather good at poetry, too, if you can trust the translations) to commemorate the death of a young man with whom they had both been intimate.

That argument is basless when you understand how people communicated back then. Read some of Shakespeare's Sonnets sometime and tell me if you think he was gay too.

[gcruse]

Read some of Shakespeare's Sonnets sometime and tell me if you think he was gay too.

Bad argument.  The Shakespearean sonnets buttress the argument that Shakespeare was a woman, not a straight male writing love notes to a boy toy.