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Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 2, 2023

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My intuition is that creative thinking is correlated with deviant sexuality. Which would include homosexuality.

Even in artsy circles there are still more straights than gays, just going by absolute numbers; but the straights you do find there are more likely to be weird/pervy in some way relative to the population average.

I don't have any hard data to back any of this up, but, it's at least an observation that others have made before:

The gays, good heavens, a full 35 or 40% of major Western authors from the beginning to the present day must have been gay. It would be very safe to assume. William Shakespeare himself would appear to have been bisexual.

a full 35 or 40% of major Western authors from the beginning to the present day must have been gay

Probably exaggerated because for at least half a century now there has been an academic and critical cottage industry devoted to finding gay subtext in everything. And given literary criticism's lack of rigor, people tend to find exactly what they are looking for.