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Gandhi was gay? :O

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1jmx
Mar 31, 2011, 1:51 pm

Reviewing Joseph Lelyveld' new Gandhi biography, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India for the Wall Street Journal, the historian Andrew Roberts says that Gandhi was a "sexual weirdo".

Read the article at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160371482469358.html

2P_T_Mack
Abr 7, 2011, 9:11 pm

Confirmed by Paul Rudnick in the New Yorker :-)

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/04/11/110411sh_shouts_rudnick

3jmx
Abr 8, 2011, 5:17 pm

Now it's for sure! LOL
Very very good article! A must... thanks!

4ninjafinity
Jul 25, 2011, 6:50 pm

One word: win.

5Caco_Velho
Feb 2, 2012, 3:06 pm

The negative juicy bits in the WSJ review aren't new information by any means. And not unexpectedly they would be what a publication with WSJ's leanings would emphasize. Gandhi was a "sexual weirdo", and Mother Teresa refused to use medical painkillers in her "hospice," preferring instead to let her charges writhe in agony as Mama T posed clutching them in her arms for photogs, etc.

Publicity hungry saints leave trails of doo-doo like chickens, only the ones who stay up on their pedestals escape being human beings.

6mejix
Editado: Feb 5, 2012, 8:31 pm

Did Bayard Rustin ever meet Gandhi?

7wrichard
mayo 5, 2012, 3:00 am

Yawn. they say that about any dead historical figure regardless of wether they even had a conception of what 'being gay' means. After reading some 'queers in history' book I said to my librarian friend 'Wow - I never knew that about Arthur Lowe' (probably the most un-gay British actor you could find) whch seemed to sum up the book. Loads of conjecture and possibility that somebody might once have had sex with a person of the same sex. One shag does not a gay make.

8marq
mayo 5, 2012, 7:24 am

7> exactly. You could include nearly every man in history depending on your notion of "gay".

Any man who has been tempted subconsciously to buy underwear because of the picture of a sexy guy on the packaging.

9Biblioteca_LGBT
mayo 11, 2012, 3:19 pm

8> The picture of a sexy guy on the underwear packaging is not for men buying underwear, it's for their wifes, the ones that usually buy the nderwear.

10marq
mayo 11, 2012, 6:24 pm

9>Yes, you are probably right. I was just giving a ridiculously wide definition of gay.

Though I would point out that these days about a quarter of all men under 40 have never been married. I haven't noticed so many men "going commando". I'm not suggesting that I check every one though.

11Caco_Velho
mayo 14, 2012, 1:30 pm

Gay men buying a package of underwear may be attracted to the sexy man on the packaging, but I think straight men often simply want to _be_ that man, rather than boink with him.

12ChrisGonzalezLibrary
mayo 16, 2014, 4:08 pm

As I understand the bio, Ghandi was sexually celebate from both men and women but did have emotional attatchments to both