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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (105051)	5/27/2005 12:29:42 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I do think that if homosexuals were accepted and not discriminated against, they would quickly become more emotionally healthy as a group, because discrimination really hurts one's psyche. Then I think there would be fewer efforts to overcompensate by outing historical figures who may or not be homosexual themselves. But I also think it is important to remember that there is a very long list of historical figures that either were openly homosexual or whom most historians believe were really gay. I would have to read the book about Lincoln to even hazard a guess. The books I have read about him and Mrs. Lincoln attribute most of the problems in their marriage to her increasingly serious mental illness during the course of it, and the tragic loss of several sons in childhood, not to any sexual identity disturbances. I do actually believe that George Washington was at least bisexual, but that is based on a relationship he had with the ancestor of my grandmother's husband, and that story has been passed down directly in our family from the original object of George's affections.